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	Skywalker Sound - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Skywalker Sound is the renowned sound effects, sound editorial, sound design and music recording division of George Lucas's Lucas Digital motion picture group.
		The facility, on a sprawling, sylvan campus high in the Marin foothills, is a model of technological sophistication and integration.
		Dubbing facilities, editorial services and scoring stages are all located in a central "Tech Building," with dining areas and living quarters in the vicinity but separate from the main work area.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Skywalker_Sound (281 words)

	Wilhelm scream - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Wilhelm scream is a stock sound effect first used in 1951 for the movie Distant Drums.
		Alongside a certain recording of the cry of the Red-tailed Hawk, it is probably the most well-known cinematic sound cliché.
		Its use in Star Wars was the beginning of something of an in-joke amongst some sound designers of the film industry, especially at Skywalker Sound.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wilhelm_scream (410 words)

	Music 4 Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		AG: In video game sound one of the main objectives is to create sounds that make the experience more fun and exciting for the game player, as well as to help communicate to the player information such as "you just blew something up, and it was huge," or "you've been injured".
		So we created a lot of new sounds, like Jango's flame thrower, for instance, which is one of his primary weapons and quite a few new spaceships sounds, machinery, creature sounds, such as the Krayt dragon, and new sounds for all of the environments that Jango moves through.
		For these sounds we used the existing Star Wars sound effects library, which is an enormous and incredibly rich sound resource, as raw material, so that the new sounds we made would be consistent with the Star Wars universe.
	www.music4games.net /f_skywalkersound_bountyhunter.html (799 words)

	Skywalker Sound (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Skywalker Sound recently installed a pair of System 5 film consoles; the larger system, used to mix "Space Cowboys," features 320 fully-resourced channels with parametric EQ, dynamics, insert points, auxiliary sends, multichannel routing and multi-format panning in each signal path, plus 96 on-surface faders.
		According to Glenn Kiser, Skywalker Sound's VP and General Manager, "We gave the System 5 console a serious shake-down on 'Space Cowboys,' which was a very large effects movie with many, many tracks.
		Supervising sound editor on the project was LA-based Allan Murray, working with Skywalker Sound's re-recording mixers Christopher Boyes and Michael Semanick; Boyes and David Farmer served as sound designers.
	www.soundwave.com /Htm/Facilities/2000/Aug/Euph-Skywalk.htm (276 words)

	Sound Design of Terminator 2 - Judgement Day
		Every sound effect in Terminator 2 had to sound like it was injected with testosterone, it had to be inflated to unworldly possibilities.
		For the transformation sounds Rydstrom was spraying Dust-Off into a flour and water mixture, with a condom-sealed mic stuck in the goo.
		The sound of the wind in the opening scene comes from a crack of an open door to main mix room at Skywalker sound.
	www.filmsound.org /t2 (1073 words)

	ProSoundNews Online Daily - Skywalker Sound Installs Neve on Scoring Stage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Marin County, CA (August 22, 2002)--Skywalker Sound, a division of Lucas Digital Ltd. LLC, is installing a Neve 88R console on the Scoring Stage for both film scoring and music recording/mixing projects.
		Skywalker will debut the new console in October, continuing its mandate to provide clients with the highest sound quality and most versatile technological environment possible.
		The new desk offers Skywalker Sound the 88R's EQ package and surface controls, high-performance automation and processing and all the routing and recall flexibility expected of a top-end board.
	www.prosoundnews.com /stories/2002/august/0822.5.shtml (309 words)

	Encyclopedia: Skywalker Sound
		Sound effects or audio effects are artificially created or enhanced sounds, or sound processes used to emphasize artistic or other content of movies, video games, music, or other media.
		Ben Burtt (born July 12, 1948 in Jamesville, New York) is the archetypal sound designer (a term he invented) and sound editor for many famous and noteworthy films, as well as directing an Oscar-nominated documentary.
		This is an article about the film crew member known as a sound designer.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Skywalker-Sound (769 words)

	Learn how Lacasfilm's Skywalker Ranch untilizes MIT technologies in it's Stag Theater and Sound Stage & Scoring Stage ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This system sounds fantastic with all types of music, and allows us to provide our clients with the best possible midfield monitoring environment to record and mix in," stated Leslie Ann Jones, Director of Music Recording and Scoring at Skywalker Sound.
		Skywalker's choice, as well as other prestigious recording studios, such as Abbey Road, further solidifies the position that our Nautilus series of loudspeakers sets the benchmark to which others are compared.
		The Skywalker Sound Scoring Stage was designed to be one of the industry’s premiere music recording and mixing facilities.
	www.mitcables.com /movies/skywalker.asp (520 words)

	Industrial Light & Magic - Internships
		An internship at ILM or Skywalker Sound is an opportunity to work with talented teams of artists and other professionals who do incredibly creative work in an atmosphere that is both dynamic and highly collaborative.
		Located at Skywalker Ranch in Marin County, Skywalker Sound is Lucas Digital's audio post-production facility, renowned for its sound design and advanced editing equipment.
		Skywalker Sound has a world-class scoring stage, six mix studios, ADR and Foley stages, 34 editing suites, and a 300 seat screening room.
	www.ilm.com /internship.html (911 words)

	Skywalker fills void left by Rydstrom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Once Rydstrom wrapped up his final sound duties, he headed out of Skywalker's Marin County headquarters and across the San Francisco Bay for the Pixar campus in Emeryville, where he is developing a short film and cooking up a treatment for a feature film.
		Skywalker's next generation includes Steve Boeddeker and Chris Scarabosio who are in the midst of completing Sony/Revolution Studio's "Hellboy" and Miramax's "Ella Enchanted," respectively.
		Skywalker's 125 employees bid Rydstrom adieu last month with a party and roast that was more loving than biting, by all accounts.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/icopyright_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=2092801 (612 words)

	Sound design of TITANIC
		But it also gave the edit and mix crew at TEC Award-winning Skywalker Sound the opportunity to complete a much fuller, richer soundtrack and rely on first-call editors, many of whom were booked on other films based on a July 2 release.
		The schedule might seem luxurious in today's film sound climate, but the length made it essentially two movies, and the complexity of the material (127 speaking parts, 4,000 principal loops, intricate water Foley, at least three big, protracted action scenes) was daunting.
		And in a sense, the most memorable sounds of all may be two key moments of silence: when the engines shut down, and when a final survivor slips into the icy ocean.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Academy/4394/titanic.htm (3686 words)

	Wired News: Making Those Games Sound Right (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		While the gravel-crunching sounded about right, something would have to be done about the faint scraping sound emanating from the friction of the pants.
		LucasArts' Foley stage, while fine for its purposes, is a closet compared to Skywalker Sound, with about 30 square feet of room, divided into two sections with a partition, five floor surfaces and three square plastic containers with bunched-up audiotape.
		Sounds stick to the walls here, dying, to limit the hiss Foreman produced earlier with his pants.
	www.wired.com /news/print/0,1294,53156,00.html (865 words)

	Skywalker Sound Goes 5.1 With Model Two Converters
		Skywalker Sound (Marin County, Calif.) has added two more Pacific Microsonics Model Two audio converters; the studio now has three units that synchronize to make an ideal 5.1 surround (6-channel) system for music recording and scoring.
		The Model Two is designed for surround sound, with a Master mode that allows three Model Two units to run from a single precision clock for the ultimate 6-channel, 5.1 surround system.
		Skywalker Sound Scoring also employs the Euphonix R-1 digital 48-track recorder, and the facility owns a Euphonix System 5 digital console that is used for film dubbing, music recording and mixing.
	mixonline.com /news/audio_skywalker_sound_goes (273 words)

	Film Sound Design - Film Sound Theory
		Sound designer and film editor Walter Murch may be one of the most and diverse below-the-line talents to be working in movies today.
		"Sound of Horror" is a 4-hour study on sound design in modern psychological horror films with clips, interviews, and examples of director / sound designer collaborations.
		Sound recording and the ability to photograph and reproduce motion pictures began intersecting at the very beginning, 1895!!!!.
	www.filmsound.org (744 words)

	NPR : Contribute to NPR's Search for Sound
		A sound crew from Skywalker Sound records locomotive sounds that were later featured in the animated film The Polar Express.
		And then there is the type of sound made by factory whistles, machines, grinders, echoes in valleys, animals.
		Sound designers use a lot of this type of audio in film.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4720293 (349 words)

	SKYWALKER SOUND'S LESLIE ANN JONES DETANGLES WITH Z-SYSTEMS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		ABOUT SKYWALKER SOUND Skywalker Sound is known throughout the entertainment industry for its innovative and creative approach.
		Skywalker Sound is the creator of multi-format audio experiences, ranging from Web sonification to IMAX presentations, from theme parks to video games.
		Following the award-winning work on "Star Wars," for which the company was created by George Lucas, Skywalker Sound quickly established itself at the cutting edge of post-production sound in modern filmmaking.
	www.transaudio.com /sksoleannjod.html (657 words)

	Accent Online Winter 1999 Page 17 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		SKYWALKER SOUND IS kywalker Sound, located on filmmaker George Lucas' estate in San Rafael, CA, has been the birthplace of numerous film scores and musical recordings.
		Yamaha artist Frederick Chiu practices at Skywalker Sound on a CFIIIS that is brought in especially for him.
		Recently however, when Chiu was practicing, other Skywalker clients heard him play and fell in love with the sound of the CFIIIS, and requested its use.
	www.yamaha.com /publications/accent/Accent199/pg17.html (301 words)

	AES SF December 2001 Meeting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Skywalker Sound is a division of Lucas Digital Ltd. It was founded in 1987 along with the creation of the Technical building on Skywalker Ranch.
		This was followed by a ten year "sabbatical" with AMS Neve in a product support role where he was also was a member of the design team for the Logic range of large-format digital consoles.
		Doug joined Skywalker Sound in 1999 to assist with the digital transition.
	www.aessf.org /meetings/Dec01.html (450 words)

	ProSoundWeb \| Skywalker Sound Uses DFC On Spieldberg's A.I.
		The film was mixed on Skywalker Sound’s newly installed, Academy Award-winning AMS Neve DFC console in Mix A, the facility’s premier mixing stage, by seven-time Academy Award-winning Sound Designer Gary Rydstrom and Academy Award-winning Re-Recording Mixer Andy Nelson.
		Skywalker Sound has won 13 Academy Awards and dozens of nominations for “Best Sound’ and “Best Sound Effects Editing.” Over half of the all-time, top-grossing 25 feature films have employed Skywalker’s audio post production services.
		The new DFC is Skywalker Sound’s third and A.I. marks the second film mixed so far on the DFC in Mix A. This room has been the site of several highly successful feature film mixes for Skywalker, including Cast Away, Saving Private Ryan, and Titanic.
	www.prosoundweb.com /recording/rec_news/swsound.shtml (556 words)

	Business Wire: Skywalker Sound Conquers Space and Time with Hitachi Data Systems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Skywalker Sound has edited many upcoming film soundtracks on the Lightning 9980V storage system since its implementation in November, including James Cameron's upcoming IMAX feature, "The Ghost of the Abyss" and Pixar's summer 2003 offering, "Finding Nemo."
		Skywalker Sound was so impressed by the Lightning 9980V that it recently also purchased the Hitachi Freedom Storage Thunder 9570V(TM) system to manage its sound effects library.
		Skywalker Sound is known throughout the entertainment industry for its innovative and creative approach.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2003_April_7/ai_99732960 (969 words)

	Skywalker Sound's Music Director Records Israeli Philharmonic with Sennheiser (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		An inability to hang microphones from the ceiling prevented her from using the sort of large diaphragm left-center-right microphones that one might expect.
		The KMS 105's "studio sound" coupled with its "live specifications" have made it a hit among live sound engineers, and that same combination made it the microphone of choice for Jones.
		She used two identical setups, one in front of the orchestra and one in front of the piano as Feinstein sang from both locations.
	www.digitalprosound.com /2001/05_may/news/israeli.htm (712 words)

	Apple - iLife - iMovie HD - Sound Effects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		By the sounds of car tires screaming around a tight corner, wind whistling through the trees, trains rattling through a station, dogs barking, thunder booming.
		In fact, in addition to the sound effects available in the past, iMovie HD includes 12 new sound effects from the renowned Skywalker Sound.
		Add the sounds of a school yard as your characters walk down the street.
	www.apple.com /ilife/imovie/soundeffects.html (715 words)

	Mac OS Sound Sets for Discriminating Tastes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It is an extremely small file due to the sample rate of the sounds (11.127 khz), but most of the sounds are in place.
		This sound set is made up entirely of sounds I recorded of dozens of toys and assorted crap I found in my house (some of which I was surprised to own).
		I made this sound set using samples from a two volume collection of CDs titled "The Carl Stalling Project." I tried to make many of the primary sounds less musical, while the longer finder operations may have some musical value.
	hometown.aol.com /zephcetloa (934 words)

	:: NASA Quest > Women of NASA :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Vice-president/general manager of Skywalker Sound is a high-profile job with immense challenges.
		She says the biggest challenge is to let the world know that Skywalker Sound does not just work on George Lucas movies.
		Information contained in this profile was compiled from Skywalker Sound and an interview with Gloria for Mix Magazine, September 1996 by Tom Kenny.
	quest.arc.nasa.gov /women/TODTWD97/borders.bio.html (596 words)

	Skywalker Sound Adds Hitachi Gear
		Hitachi Data Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, announced that Skywalker Sound has chosen its Data Systems to consolidate storage and meet the demanding requirements to record, design, edit, mix and play back film soundtracks in real time.
		Skywalker Sound selected a Hitachi Freedom Storage Lightning 9980V system with 12 TB of capacity to centralize all of its editorial storage.
		Prior to this install, Skywalker Sound relied primarily on removable hard drives to share soundtracks.
	mixonline.com /news/audio_skywalk_sound_adds/index.html (241 words)

	Making movies
		When Cameron approached the sound designers at Skywalker Sound, he had one request: he wanted the sound to be big.
		The end result was an organic sound design, where even in the vacuum of space, laser beams swooshed and one could hear the explosion of a Death Star.
		In the world of visual effects and sound, the names of Muren, Burtt, and Rydstrom, to name a few, are the equivalent of top tier athletes in the world of sports.
	www.fromscripttodvd.com /lucasfilm_skywalker_sound_tribute.htm (2734 words)

	Planet GameCube News Article: Bounty Hunter to feature Skywalker Sound (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Skywalker Sound Effects Library currently contains more than 70,000 originally recorded sound effects, including master sound designer Ben Burtt's Star Wars catalogue, which supplied the raw materials for the Star Wars Bounty Hunter soundtrack.
		Skywalker Sound has been associated with a total of seventeen Academy Awards for Best Achievement in Sound and Best Achievement in Sound Effects Editing.
		It's good to hear that Skywalker Sound had fun with the project and plans to work on other games in the future.
	www.planetgamecube.com /news.cfm?action=item&id=3376 (575 words)

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