I am loving not only the subject matter but how you are so self aware of your editing style. Every video gets better but the comical editing in this one was perfect. Made this 12 minute video feel no longer the 5 at most! Incredible job and adore the idea of challenges with the same source material. Fantastic work!!

@abisz007007

5 жыл бұрын

2nd this. For the amount of small amount of videos he puts out, the improvement in editing, pace etc has been incredible.

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2 жыл бұрын

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2 жыл бұрын

@Titan Cameron instablaster :)

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2 жыл бұрын

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2 жыл бұрын

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My friend only knew a few basic spells, so I had to fix it in post

For comparison: Marshall's apparition - 6:30 Akash's apparition - 8:15 Marshall's fire spell - 9:30 Akash's fire spell - 11:12

@chocov1233

3 жыл бұрын

@Kore VFX Naw, Akash has a better fire spell sound effect. The apparition sound effect was a tough call but I have to agree with you, Marshall's was better.

@shahabazkhan1

3 жыл бұрын

Marshall's sounds more indie, and Akash's more AAA..

@klatchabobby

3 жыл бұрын

@@chocov1233 How was Akash's fire better? There was zero distinguishing from casting and blocking it

I have to honestly say you are by far the smallest youtuber that's on my list of creators I get genuinely exited about, and drop everything else when they release a new video. Like SmarterEveryDay, Wintergatan, kurgesagt, nerdwriter, CaptainDisillusion and Co. are on that list. Love your channel ❤

@Darkest-Light

5 жыл бұрын

Hear, Hear! Geddit? Because it's a channel that focuses on sound mixing and editing? (I'll show myself out...)

@PaTcHiZzEl

5 жыл бұрын

Wintergatan! Yes!

@chocobovonhauske8518

5 жыл бұрын

Same for me

That internet connection was incredible! :) Fantastic video.

There's an important distinction between you and Nerdwriter. You are an industry professional and are actually working on and creating your craft. Nerdwriter is a critic who bloats his video essays with unnecessary jargon that could have been conveyed more briefly and easily. Tony Zhou's Everyframeapainting is an excellent example of how video essays should be done. Your channel is smaller than Nerdwriter's but I hold it in a higher regard, IMO.

@jaypanchal7606

5 жыл бұрын

Yes!

@Jibash

5 жыл бұрын

Agree

@MadeinHell2

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah I agree, I was never a fan of Nerwriters style. His videos centre around a subject that could be fully explored in 2-3 minutes but instead he quadruples that with unecessary detail and anecdotes that don't add much. It wouldn't be as bad if it didn't make the whole essay lose cohesion, the often suffer from the common "video essay" problem of not having a clear "point" they're trying to get across, turning into a kind of video shaggy dog story.

@lucasfreeman9469

5 жыл бұрын

Nerdwriter gets to levels so pretentious and 'spiritual' (with his long pauses and supposedly grand revelations) sometimes that his stuff feels basically like souped up weedtalk

@Blank_Name.

5 жыл бұрын

Thats a bit too harsh on NerdWriter

A lot of good insight here. Part of the ‘magic’ of sound design is that the audience ends up only perceiving the finished product as a whole without really considering the parts that go into a sound. Good stuff

The water spell that Dumbledore does in his fight with Voldemort is the best sounding one in all the movies in my opinion. Sounds so... Magical.

Brilliantly done. In an online community flush with tutorials about just about anything, sound design is still something that hasn't been taught much. It's great that you're doing these.

Would've been cool if you also added in the original movie sound of those scenes for comparison.

@MarshallMcGee

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah it’s funny, your idea was in the original script to show the clips with the sounds to start, but I felt like it would make the listener compare our work to the original which isn’t really the point of the vid. Maybe it would have been better you’re right but I liked the idea of us going into the design blindly as if we were the people asked to do it for the movie.

@Rhedox1

5 жыл бұрын

@@MarshallMcGee I agree that you shouldn't have shown the movie one before your versions but they would've been nice right before the end of the video.

@shadowproductions969

5 жыл бұрын

@@Rhedox1 Exactly. Leave the audience in the dark.. or silence I guess. Have their imagination run wild, show your versions THEN show what it sounded like in the final film and maybe give your 2 cents on the effect they used and whether you agree with it fully or not.

How do we know you didn't just record yourself casting the spells instead of making the sounds like the movies then, huh? I guess I wouldn't be surprised if you were secretly a wizard.

Bro this video cracked me up. I love your work. Been subbed for like a year and gonna def reference these over the years. Thanks for your channel and keep it up!

I've been designing a lot of magic sounds lately, so your timing is super serendipitous. Thanks!

Happy that Pro sound effects reached out to you. I love their blogs. Always learning amazing things from them

@prosoundeffects

5 жыл бұрын

❤️

Man! This is brilliant! Im not talking about the audio stuff (that is super useful btw!) but your editing...!! I love this freaking channel!!!

Excellent video. Hilarious and informative. Thank you so much for putting this together. Can't wait to check out the rest of the videos on your channel.

I really loved how you made the intro to this video! The sounds were just right and not cheesy at all, it's like it just works. Reminds me of Julian Slater's work in Baby Driver.

That's why I love this Chanel, because you explain how you make the sound effects with random sounds. I love following the magic while you create it

I'm honestly surprised by how few subs this channel has. This is quality content and I'm loving it despite having nothing to do with sound design in my hobbies/job/school/etc.

when I thought about the fire spell, I imagined the end of yours and the beginning of Akash's, so together both of yours actually sounded like what I was thinking initially

I love your videos because it’s really given me a good way to get into the world of sound design. Keep up the amazing videos!

This was really cool! It definitely does seem like with spells you can get super creative. I love the fact that it was a little challenge with Akash. I hear some of the similarities in the sounds, but overall they are all unique. Sooo many layers...who would have known.

Just found your channel and it's such a godsend. I didn't know this was stuff I could nerd out over but here I am.

This is by far the most deserved, and valuable subscription I've ever used. I enjoy your videos to the point where I think about them all day. You're one talented sound-designer, and content creator, and I really do appreciate you sharing that with us. Thank you! I do hope you'll do a waveform episode on Apex Legends, as there are some supercool & interesting sound designs in there. My favorite one is the sound of Pathfinder using a beacon to reveal the next circle. It reminds me of the sonic boom you covered from Battlefront, but with less low end!

So glad you're back

I watched the Nerdwriter video right before I watched yours. I was unsatisfied, so I scrolled down. Yours was what I was looking for. IMO you're the far superior KZreadr.

Super informative and love your humor man! I don't get nearly enough sound design education at my school so I love finding content like this

i havent heard of nerd writer. im here because your editing is clever and your audio is relaxing to me. its like asmr . the tone, clarity and calmness in the voice.

Awesome. I've been looking for a channel like this for forever.

I just discovered your channel. You have some great quality content! I havent come acros something similair yet. Keep it up. Subscribed!

Akash sent me here but I've been following you for a while now. Great to see my two favorite SD are working together.

Dude, you could make a dozen episodes of only spell sounds and it'd never get tiresome. Syncing up with Nerdwriter1 just made it extra fun. Awesome idea to give two sound designers the same challenge. It's so fascinating how different they sound and yet how well they both work (really helpful to see the silent and mixed clips looped a few times) Also, I've only heard praise for Just Cause 4's sound. I'm absolutely gonna play it.

I could say, this video help a lot ! It gives me a very clear way to start my design! Thank you very much for making a fantastic video and please keep making more new video!

I just discoverd you today. Watched a couple of videos and instantly subbed the hell out of that button! You are doing some amazing content!!

@nivelis91

5 жыл бұрын

Same here!

This video is amazing, i'm working with this, and I was looking for references to create magic spells sound effects. I just loved it, helped me alot!!! Thank you so much

I already follow Akash so I was really interested to see how differently these effects would turn out to yours. In the second example, I think I prefered Akash's "cast" part of the effect but I also prefered your "block" part of the effect. You've done a few videos on making strong impact sounds so it comes as no surprise that you might feel more comfortable creating a great "block" sound. Meanwhile, Akash likes to really go overboard with layering many simple effects like reverb and reversing samples, which I think was a major factor in making that great teleport and cast sound.

Just stumbled randomly into this youtube channel. Killin' the game Marshall!

Ah, I really love your videos, they're so much fun and tell me I'm doing alot of stuff right already while still teaching new stuff! I have two suggestions for your next videos: 1) Making several sound from a characteristic base sound. Basically think of the process how lasersword sounds are made! You have one basic sound that has no movement to it, and then you need to make several sounds with different movement, impact etc out of it! So consistency is the goal here, that you can recognize the base sound out of it! 2) Goes into a similar direction: How to achieve consistency over your whole project/game/scene etc. So, how can I make sure everything sounds good together! I had trouble at first when I started making sounds for a videogame, since you can't control when which sound plays how often, but I think for a polished movie this can take even more effort and focus!

Ah, every episode I get better as a sound designer with the tips and studies you provide. Thanks for all you do, Mcgee.

Fuckin love your channel man, been binge watching and am almost finishing all the videos! NEED MORE CONTENT BRO

Thank you for this video! Thanks for your time and your work :)

I would love to hear your take on mecha sounds! Thank you for the vids, your channel is just what I was hoping to find!

Great video. Neither of your designs sounded quite like what I was imagining in my head but they were equally convincing. And, just for the record, Evan Puschak's voice is good. I prefer yours.

I like how you and akash took opposite approaches to the second spell, and I myself would have gone more towards his. You focused on tension building up to then have a big impact on the block, while akash gave the spell itself more power to then have it blocked with a sense of ease.

Love you, Marshall!

your channel is way better! don't lose your own vibe!

Love it mate!

I really want the prosoundeffects library so I think I will become a sound design KZreadr. That seems like the most logical approach.

Your videos saved my Senior thesis (KZread Upload tommorrow morning at 7 AM est for anybody interested) so thanks a lot, man.

Incredible

Ah, it sucks being outrun by other content creators here on youtube, I know that too well :D Anyway, the video is super spicy and I love how different your results sound!

Really nice video, I found it very interesting and quite fun to compare the process' and results. Thanks.

it would be interesting to see some challenges where you and some others create sounds for moviescenes or games and compare them

more knowledge than I learned from 3 years college. amazing bro

One thing that was not particularly mentioned in the video is the importance of adding the "character" or "emotion" to the spell. So that the audience can close their eyes and know what spell has been cast because there is this unique element to it. "Yep that was Ava Kedavra". And that would be the pinnacle of sound design. After "making it work".

This was such a great video and you've hit on all of the major points when it comes to approaching the design of magic. The show (Amazon's Lost In Oz) in which I won my Emmy for Outstanding Sound Editing - there's a TON of magic that I had to create from scratch and it was an absolute blast! :)

"DO IT LIVE!!!" Lol I love your intros bro

Awesome as usual Marshall! You have to do a "contest" like this one with akash, but with us, your subscribers. The winner gets a free class with you hahaha. Greets from Argentina

Love the videos Marshall! I've learned a ton of sound design techniques from each one of them. Could you create a video for how to create robotic sounds (Wall-E, Iron Man, etc)? You've covered magic, weapons and a bunch of other things, but nothing on this topic. Thanks!

Awesome video, make more !

Stumbled on your channel randomly. Will be binging hard

been wondering this for a while

for the mcgonnagal one I want the second version for the cast and the first version for the block

Keep these videos coming! This is hot! :D

that spongebob meme was fabulous, thank you.

Came for a tutorial and ended with a tutorial and a comedic sketch. Nice video!

If possible, I'd love to see a video on creating creature sounds like the Balrog from Lord of the Rings, in particular using sounds from non-animal sources (in this case cinder blocks)

3:30, love your vids!

You and nerdwriter are equally good for creating interesting content.

how do you feel about your work on Just Cause 4? are there things your proud of, are there things your unhappy about, do you have a fun memory about working on the game?

Whenever you played it silently, all I could hear were the actual sounds from the movie because they’re so ingrained in me

I’d like another one of these videos for Harry Potter sounds

Next up, you should break down and make your own sample of the PlayStation 2 boot up sound effect!

Your video quality is soooooooooooooooooooo good..

Oh hey it’s Akash! Small world...

HAHAHA I really thought it was the end. Nice one!

Funny thing is...for the Voldemort-appearing-sound-thingy I kinda imagined something in between yours and Akash's Now I just wanted to say that I extremely enjoy your videos as they are fun and educational Keep it up Greets.

Wish they also worked on the flutey sounds, as the one he showcased when Snape forced the windows shut at 1:42. To me those are the most mystical and characteristic. Great video nonetheless, extremely so

Can you make a video on the sounds of the Infinity Stones in Infinity War? Those are so amazing to hear and they give off such a spatial and cosmic noise.

2:32 I loved my red pan back at Anderson, I made a lot of turkey paninis on that bad Larry. That's the only part of this video that I could relate to. I've never seen Harry Potter and I don't know shit about sound design

Great videos! I'm a big fan of these "record with iphone" ones and this is cool too. I feel like it would be even better if you would show a little more precisely what you did with the different layes and FX. I get most of it but sometimes, I'm really baffle between the start and final layers. Just a thought :)

Here before this channel blows up

I am pretty sure you know this, but your channel has all of the characteristics a popular channel has (as in having around 500k views per video). I am sure your channel will grow quickly. The only thing that might have held it back is the content, considering that it is about sound design, and that doesn’t get too much attention from the general public. That does play in your favor in the sense that very few people actually talk about these kind of things, making your channel easily stand out. Edit: I also suggest you to rename your channel to waveform

I like how the sound I'd make for both scenes would be something in between those two ideas hahah

Discovered this channel today, already loving it! Amazing to see your thought process and learn from it for my own work. I've been struggling to create an ambient "twinkle" sound, something that would make you imagine being in a crystal cave. Do you have any advice? :)

@MarshallMcGee

5 жыл бұрын

Maybe buy a couple cheap drinking glasses, shatter them, and then drop them into some kind of metal bowl, then record that and pitch it up and add a bunch of reverb?

@McLachlanG

5 жыл бұрын

@@MarshallMcGee Definitely gonna try that out! Thanks a bunch :) keep up the great work

you are so sick, I watch everything you make

This was legit, Akash sent me here :)

Hi Marshall, glad I ran into one of your old videos and this was so much fun to watch and learn from!! I don't know if this question is kinda too late to ask since it's been 5 years. A noob question on effects, since you have all let's say 7 layers of fire to create that texture, how do you automate the plugins on all of them? For me, I would be routing all them into a "Fire_Bus" Aux and automate things from there. Is this the way you do it or is there any easier or better way to do this? Again thank you for the amazing video!!

So ummmm. I recently joined an indie fan game for halo called Downfall. I'm the 2nd audio engineer to join. Your videos actually really help me and the beam rifle one is obviously how I found this channel. This is a pointless comment but I do wanna say keep on making videos so I can be a better audio engineer

Good vid, informative and entertaining. I wonder how long it took you both to create those sounds?

@MarshallMcGee

5 жыл бұрын

About 2 hours for me not sure about akash.

@Dead_Newbie

5 жыл бұрын

@@MarshallMcGee Thanks for the reply. I'm looking for a better sense of when it is best to stop working on a sound.

Do something with silenced weapons sfx in games or media in general. or what stealth games sound like, well, how you think it they sound/ or should sound. Like for example, how the Splinter Cell iconic nvg sound is expected when turning it on no matter what the game is, even though it doesn't make that sound, and it would give your position away, but it *sounds* stealthy or body sounds like when grabbing or silencing a guard stealth gadgets how they should sound and when does it stop sounding like a stealthy near future somewhat grounded believable gadget and starts sounding like a Sci fi future gadget or space gadget. footsteps or how loud clothing should or shouldn't sounds when sneaking and still keep it believable that it's quiet. just throwing some ideas.

I was actually far more interested in this video because of the nerd writer video. I think your videos have a unique take meaning that instead of competing you guys build off each other.

Hey. I was wondering if you can make a tutorial on how to make gunshot sounds. In more distance layers. Close, near, far, background.

He uses ableton live by the way. I had an audio friend look at some of the clips and tell me because I didn’t know what software to use to get into it more and at the time I used audacity. Bought it myself and can confirm it is ableton

round 2 goes to you. i love the space you created in the sound aswell as the satifying block. overall sounds powerful and cinematic.

To use your analogy, some of us are still cooking over campfires(audacity). It would be helpful to know what types of pots(newfangled doodads) yall would use.

вы лучшие!)

I’d like to see how the golden snitch sounded in all its sounds as well as fawkes. Plus, what about the stuff in the Fantastic Beasts movies?

Please do the Geos mech sounds

I love the house track at the beginning (with spells and stuff). is it to be found anywhere?