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Genre: Music
Date of upload: Dec 27, 2023 ^^
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Professional sound editor here - I heard the original Godzilla roar on a 1/4โ tape reel labeled โRusty ship door / Godzilla roar.โ It was the exact sound followed by a few other similar takes of a large metal door opening and closing. The original (the tape I heard was a copy) was from the Columbia Pictures sound library.
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This was Akira Ifukube's (the composer for the 1954 Godzilla movie) idea
From Wikizilla:
When he first signed onto Godzilla, composer Akira Ifukube thought that the monster, being a reptile, shouldn't roar at all. Director Ishiro Honda explained it as another consequence of his mutation by nuclear testing. Sound technicians Ichiro Minawa and Hisashi Shimonaga tried modifying the cries of lions, tigers, and night herons recorded at the Ueno Zoo, but everything they produced still sounded too natural. It was Ifukube who came up with the idea of using a musical instrument: the contrabass.
He unwound the E string and recorded his assistant, Sei Ikeno, drawing his hands across it with gloves covered in pine tar. Minawa then manipulated the speed of the recordings, added echoes, and overlaid some of the animal sounds he had previously gathered.
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Other people already said this but they wouldnt just be pitching it down theyd be slowing it down. The reason they used a higher end mic being that when you pitch something down youre shifting the high end, so if a mic cuts off at 4000hz but you slow the recording to 50% your max is now 2000hz. Nowadays youd achieve this by highering your sample rate before recording so when pitching down its more natural
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@User-jk8wq
4 months ago
The original 1950s Godzilla roar is still absolutely horrifying lol
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