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Yeah was gonna say, we just need to put the voice actors in a room with a decent echo.

Those first two "what am I doing?!" and "turn out those lights!" are in my regular echolalia file lol

Here’s another example from The Dover Boys at Pimento University.

that would explain why he sounds like he was in a barn sometimes

Exactly, you can hear the size of the room.

Makes me wonder if recording tech back then simply failed interestingly with his screams?

I met him when I was three. Obviously I don't remember.....dammit....

flashing back to the 70's, conditioned by these cartoons to think it was socially acceptable to scream like this if i was just trying to be funny

Up there with the Wilhelm Scream in one of a kind voices never again to be recreated. Man, I want to go on a Looney Tunes binge now.

The compression, the tasteful saturation. My god, it's even optically printed.

no screams but you can just totally vibe on what Blanc is doing without even watching the screen. youtu.be/tV6_VQdKIXc?...

such classics

Just record with an old microphone in a shed like he used to do.

Bro's pipes were made of god damn titanium; ''GET ME OUTTA HERE'' plays in my head a lot when I'm in situations I hate as an example

EVERYBODY SCREAM!

It wasn't technology it was Mel Blanc's vocal cords. They were literally different than those of other human beings.

This was pretty hilarious lol.

Oh, I'm sure Chris Pratt and any other AAA actor as it covered.

what

but jacobeous the greeks did not invent the flame for it was long before the time you should practice discourse

To this day I say this. None of my friends get it.

Shaddap shuttin’ up, rabbit

Admittedly I think we can- I just don't think screaming skills are valued enough anymore. Dom DeLuise was likewise an absolute gem. youtu.be/bGpjlMBAP50

shit man i can yell in a warehouse too

Mel Blanc was technology?

Great screams.

is this true though if you had 32bit float bitdepth?

One of the greatest 🫡

"I don't know how ya's done it BUT I KNOW YA'S DONE IT!!!!"

the peaking is part of the magic

Oh yeah, it's related to scream singing and raspy character voices. It's called "false vocal cords" and I've never been totally clear what that actually means

(hat in hand) "Well, shit." bsky.app/profile/temp...

IIRC there's some anecdotes floating around from people who worked with Mel that he'd record his screamed lines from the opposite side of the booth

could a period era microphone replicate it. Or is it due to the age of the film itself.

Great... now all ya need is Mel Blancs iron vocal chords and lung capacity and your all set. Even Eric Bauza, his current voice over equivelant... can do the voices of Bugs, Porky, Daffy, etc... but even he cant go full on FERAL SCREAM like Mel.

A little natural reverb from a big empty room, or the modern hack is a plugin for room reverb.

i just think it's crazy that they literally ran around sound stages between lunch breaks. legendary

Weird thing to say, but that very specific WB soundstage echo feels like a PLACE from my childhood!

a ribbon mic through a tube preamp

Mel Blanc came to Whittier College to talk about doing voices and effects when i was a little kid. I spent that evening rapt, watching Bugs Bunny talk/yell/scream out of an old man's mouth. My mom gained some respect for cartoons, too, and relaxed a little about my TV time.

thanks! been down quite the, ahem, rabbit hole on this today!

It was great 😂

That makes so much sense, idk how I didn't make that connection, like a thematic passing of the torch

“Si.”

I understand he shouted into empty alleyways in the middle of the night to get that echoing effect.

Iirc a lot of these were basically recorded in this huge, empty-ass warehouse for *maximum* reverb 'cause otherwise people were too annoyed by how loud he could get. We just don't make warehouses empty enough these days, smh.

In history there is nothing funnier than Mel Blanc's ability to scream as though he were being tormented in the absolute depths of tartarus

The trick is to not have anti-echo on the mic so you can ear the room.

The real genius of this is that he can scream *in character* without losing the voice he's doing.

I love this simile.

Dan Castellaneta is trying like hell, and, once upon a time, he got close.

Admittedly, the cartoons he recorded for toward the end of his career started to sound like a guy who’d yelled and smoked for decades, but that’s only natural.

To quote the youths, Mel was just "built different".

That’s one of my favorite Looney Tunes lines ever

❤️

Sorry, isn't ringing any visual bells. Guessing it's from a movie?

Wet is the term for a room with a lotta reverb if i mind right

OMG

They should make a workday that doesn't feel like this

I don't know that we have the glands to make these sounds anymore

All a little looney. :v

ha! no we didn't

Sylvester the cat and daffy duck sounded very similar, I'll give you that.

Top five American actors

I think it is commitment from the VAs Blanc was a literal audionaut exploring the depths of what his voice was capable of without a map, people don’t have the same insane heedless abandon he did Maybe that’s a good thing, I am unsure

Oooooh aah HATE that rabbit!

Mel Blanc really was one of a kind.

it's the echo in the sound booth that always gets me. Sometimes Dan Castelleneta manages to hit it and it's always great

⬇️ Done! Hit here to save it.

I can make the screams — but I learned how to make them by listening to Mel Blanc!

Mel Blanc must have drank a lot of honey tea

I've always wondered how he did those crazy loud expressive shouts without peaking the equipment so badly it was inaudible or incomprehensible

Me developing "OOOOOO I'M DYIN'" as a new vocal stim in real time

It's all so fucking beautiful

I literally just saw a guy on YouTube making these sounds, re: cooking rice.

Every single one of these needs to be a breakdown callout

Finally found the clip. Listen closely (or as closely as you can to a scream)…yep, it’s Mel. youtu.be/a2IaDlRppTQ?...

i think ishowspeed does this

- “Well, I can speak LOOUUD!! And I carry a BIIIGGER stick!…And I use it, too! (wham!)” - And my favorite, from “Gopher Broke”, where the two Gophers float the sleeping Hound Dog out onto a lake, which he doesn’t realize until a duck swims up and goes “…QUACK!! 🦆”

I grew up screaming these and others around my house. Dad was especially good at it.

Guy was effortlessly talented.

we didn't lose it - our capitalist overlords buried it

We didn’t lose the technology, we have advanced. These audios weren’t recorded in an audio treated room like what we see today, you can hear the echos which in itself is charming in its own way.

In my head I picture them recording in a sound booth and he gets to the yelling part. Afterwards it’s quiet for a few minutes, then the engineer says, “We need him to stand back from the mike a bit.” “How far?” “About 20 yards. Maybe more.” 🤣

it's genius.

📢 NO-ONE WILL EVER KNOW 🚨

Mel Blanc really was a master of voices! There is such skill in these screams!

There are still moments when actors peak the mic, but nothing peaks this

I remember some of these cartoons! 🤣🤣🤣

Clearly youve never heard Sean Schemmel charge his power level

I still wanna know how many times Cena had to reshoot that “I don’t pay you to tink you taw” interrogation of Tweety in the desert because it’s probably pretty much impossible to not bust out laughing shooting that kind of dialogue.

perfect