by Douglas Adams
Academic Project, Fall 2011
For this project, I designed sound effects for Fit the Tenth, and mixed Fit the Ninth. This show offered many unique opportunities for sound design.
The track above is a sampler of my sound effects from Fit the Tenth. Many were created from scratch. Most notably, the Improbability Drive grinding to a halt is composed of various recordings, such as a large bowl being struck and grinding on a foil pan, or the machinery in the basement of a university building. The laser zaps at the end were created by striking a very long spring at one end, and recording at the other.
This set of tracks shows examples of vocal effects in Fit the Ninth.
The first features the evil Vogons, introduced by the Narrator.
The second features Marvin the depressed robot, along with Ford and Zaphod.
The third is Zaphod Beeblebrox the Fourth, Zaphod's dead great-grandfather.
Finally, the fourth features Eddie, the friendly shipboard robot.
Sound effects for Fit 9 were designed by Chris Trevino, and music was by Chelsea Leighton.
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| Photo by Chelsea Leighton |
I mixed using Logic and an 8-channel MIDI mixer. Since I had far more than eight characters, I created a system of three banks. Each scene was assigned a bank, and by switching the MIDI controller to the proper bank between scenes, I could control the right microphones for each scene.
