Engineered Sounds

What's an engineered sound? Something that's been processed through a machine or edited heavily or is produced as the result of careful orchestration (source: me). Every sound I thought of (that was sfw) was a sound effect from an on-screen something that I watched with either really good headphones or Bose speakers on either side of me. Just to spit it out, these were them:

-Benimaru Shinmon's Crimson Moon

-The lion roars in Disney movies (look up the process, it's so cool)

-Shinra Kusakabe's little electro glitch sound whenever he blasts off and weaves

-"Ban~KAI" (see the theme)

-The close up and magnified crackling sounds of a fire burning in movies n stuff

In particular, Crimson Moon is elite. The electronic, bassy, spacious, resonant sound that feels much larger than it is is not only perfect for its corresponding visual and rightfully touted as one of the best FX in anime, but it also takes silence as the perfect accent to an absolutely peak fight climax in such a hurried and chaotic fight sequence. It hits all the marks for purpose, execution, style, compliment, and creativity. Okay, that aside

The thing I love about sounds like that is how effortful it really is to get it sound like that, to get it to sound just right and just natural enough in whatever it appears in. I never think of all the effort that goes into finding, tuning, and reproducing the sounds I hear, but foley art is so fascinating and frankly, very fun. It's comical when you see it happening, and completely undetected otherwise. It flies so low under the radar that you know it, but you don't really know it, know it. yk?

I watch a lot of cartoons. Voice acting is one thing, but the orchestration for such simple FX like a door opening or a leaf crunching is disproportionately misleading. It's so much fun to watch a grown man growl into a metal trash bin to make the sound of a lion roar, or watch entire heads of lettuce get obliterated to make the sound of walking through grass.

Obviously I'm not actively thinking about these ridiculous things when I'm immersed in my escapist hobby of watching stuff on a TV, but it's so fun to think about and giggle at. So much work goes into the silliest sounds sometimes that I'd rather hear the machined art than organic, more natural sounds like animal sounds, aesthetic asmr, and things that evoke peace. I want problems, I want chaos, I want to hear what the future feels like. Engineered sounds are the best