.WAVs for startup/shutdown?
POSTED BY: Noocyte
UPDATED: Sunday, January 23, 2005 15:37
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Very shiny indeed! Two requests immediately come to mind: The first is, of course, the guitar intro (pref. in WAV format, if possible) from the end theme, sliced into a nice 5-ish-second flourish-and-fade ("doo-doo-doom, doo-doo-doom-DOOOooommm..." is the correct spelling, I believe), ripe for a startup sound (I tend to like short startup/shutdown sounds, since one has to re-boot so many times in windoze).
The second which leaps to mind is a choice Mal "Hunh" for the "question" or "exclamation" sound.
One might then space monkey around with such things as short and long strings of Mandarin profanity, and suchlike. I hope you have tne bandwidth for the onslaught of WAV-hungry Browncoats which would likely ensue!
Keep flyin'!
Department of Redundancy Department
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I'm a theatrical sound designer by trade. I don't have a lot of the episodes on tape, and the ones I do aren't of the best quality, but I can pull sounds and clean them up with the stuff I have in my studio if anyone wants to get me good quality source files
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Is this the guitar idea you were looking for?
http://dearone.net/ffguitar.wav
I've done some stuff to reduce file size (not as much compression as I usually do with the verbal clips, though), but if that's not the sound quality you were hoping for, let me know.
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Yes, indeed, this is precisely the clip I'd wanted, and you tweaked/faded it precisely as I'd visualized. And, furthermore, you rock. Multitudinous thanks!
Actually, there was another clip I thought might be lovely: do you remember that mournful, haunting little theme at the end of Bushwhacked, where the Alliance ship is scuttling the derelict freighter? Tugs at the heart, don't it?
Anyway, thanks again!!
Keep flyin'
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Coolness -- glad that was what you were after! I'll swing by again when I have a chance to rip an appropriate Mal "huh" (I did a music vid with the scene from Serenity where he discovers River hidden away, so I know where to go for that sound!) and root around for the clip from Bushwhacked. And for anyone who's interested, I'll continue to gradually add to the episode dialogue clips...I keep telling myself to wait for the DVDs for the ultimate source quality, but since I compress the audio snippets quite a bit, I guess it's no big...plus I just don't want to wait 
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Just thought I'd pop in with a quick suggestion since I'm bored out of my mind:
You can use WinAmp to convert mp3s to wav files. Of course, they will be roughly ten times the original size.
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Talk about melancholy, the quiet guitar strum at the end of jaynestown. Probabaly one of the most thought provoking moments in the whole series. The hero of canton reprise I call it. Would make a nice quiet shutdown.
Mal: “See how I'm not punching him? I think I've grown!”
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Thanks, Chasa -- these are shiny. Btw, the 'bigdamnheroes.wav' files seems to cut off slightly late -- it seems to include the beginning of Mal's next sentence after "ain't we just..."
Also, some of my ideas about sounds for Windows events:
Asterisk: "Huh." (MAL, from 'Serenity')
Close program: STILLSHINY's riff_4.wav (made from the end of SAKRYSTA's Firefly_Main_Title_Theme.wav -- guitar riff when Serenity flies off at the beginning of 'The Train Job')
Critical stop: (deadly) "I don't give half a hump if you're innocent or not." (BOOK from 'Objects in Space')
Default beep: (all cool) "Bwaa." (MAL, from 'Heart of Gold')
Exclamation: "C'mon, Wash, you dumbass, dodge 'em!" (JAYNE, from 'Serenity')
Exit windows: SAKRYSTA's Firefly_End_Credits.wav (last violin measures from the end theme)
New mail notification: "I got post?" (JAYNE, from 'The Message')
Question: "I need that in Captain Dummy-Talk, Kaylee." (MAL, from 'Out of Gas')
Program error: "Don't figure the percentage in that." (JAYNE, from 'The Message')
Start windows: CHASA's ffguitar.wav (from NOOCYTE's request of the guitar intro from the end theme)
If anyone could supply any of these clips, it would be much appreciated!!!
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Originally posted by Shiny:
Thanks, Chasa -- these are shiny. Btw, the 'bigdamnheroes.wav' files seems to cut off slightly late -- it seems to include the beginning of Mal's next sentence after "ain't we just..."
Hmmm, that's odd. I just listened on both of my computers and don't hear anything except the fiddle background music on the fade after "just." But I'll take a closer look with headphones after work and if it's not a neat fade, I'll fix!
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