After Colbert tonight I left the TV on for a bit of South Park, a show whose virtues are mostly ignored by me, thanks to its gratuitous profanity. But what hit me this time is how the voices of the kids are, in the tradition of David Seville and the Chipmunks, obviously sped up.
I grabbed 90+ seconds of audio, then slowed it down. A reduction of 25% sounded about right.
[audio:http://www.dograt.com/Audio/FEB07/SouthPark.mp3,http://www.dograt.com/Audio/FEB07/SouthParkSlow.mp3]
I can do B&B. Have it on LD.
Bagdasarian had to speak carefully because the playback ran twice as fast. The South Park guys are speeding up their recording by only a third.
Here’s a project for ya, Dougie! I doubt you have a copy of it, since Eric is a boy, but I have one, or you can borrow one. Disney’s well-done “Beauty and the Beast” from the early 90s featured the voice of Robbie Benson, of all people (think: wimp stereotype) doing the voice of the Beast. The only time you actually heard his voice in real speed was at the very end of the movie was when the spell was broken and he was converted back into a human. In THIS case, his voice had to be SLOWED DOWN and DISTORTED to sound growly (for lack of a better word). Soo … did they just do the opposite of what Ross B. did with the Chipmunks? Also, what really struck me with the South Park voices is that they just spoke normally, whereas, Bagdarian had to painfully enunciate every single syllable! Better technology?