Taking spotting notes for a short film I’m scoring, and thought of this moment from Charade (1963)….

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Taking spotting notes for a short film I’m scoring, and thought of this moment from Charade (1963). I love when source music gets impressionistic. In this case what Henry Mancini wrote doesn’t change, but it gets reverby.

Now when you put reverb on a track normally you actually send a copy of the audio signal thru the reverb so you’re getting the direct sound and the reverb. But it sounds like here they’re just getting the ‘wet’ reverb sound. It’s a great way to sonically re...