Oscilloscope Intro Sound Effect
Just a quick question:
Do you prefer the Oscilloscope intro with the actual buzzing audio from the scope as seen on the Vinyl-Disc video...or with the old intro tune dubbed on top, as seen on the Powered Speakers video.
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Late one here (just "browsing the archive" at last), but I absolutely love the oscilloscope one with the music you use now (late 2017). Never really warmed to the later, "faked" reel-2-reel intro, but using both of them as you do nowadays (at least when you do an on-camera introduction) is probably a great compromise.
Ok, forget that "fake" comment, I sincerely thought all the time the new R2R-intro was a CGI effect, an artificial reinterpretation of the original idea. So now after discovering your BTS-video about the making of the 4K intro I feel like an idiot. I guess all left to say now is sorry. And "flipping heck"...
After sitting through the "legend27" advert for the umpteenth time, i'm ready to skip to the meat. Give me the short intro, followed by you introducing the content. This debate feels a bit like when tomorrows world changed their intro and everyone was "outraged".
I like seeing new things every few months.
Perhaps reel-to-reel intro and oscilloscope outro? I really like both but think the oscilloscope is a bit short.
I really liked the idea of the oscilloscope intro, but the _text_ is not very legible — the large 3D depth and the bandwidth-limited curves both obscure the actual character shapes. I think it would be good to make the characters less deep (which would also result in a stronger stereo sweep effect) and also use the trick of varying the overall sweep rate to play a tune (as seen in several places on the _Oscilloscope Music_ album).
So it seems lots of people do and don't like all or some of the past and/or present intros. So I'd call that a dead heat. Thanks to everyone who voted. I'll just go with whatever feels right.
Seems voting is closed? I love the visual of the oscilloscope, but something about the framing of the shot seems strange to me (and I feel bad saying that coz I saw above that it was the most time consuming part). Insofar as the sound, I think the original music audio works better since that ties it in to the older videos.
This is the first time I've tried one of these polls, perhaps they time out.
I got used to the 'reel-to-reel' being an intro to something interesting - like Pavlov's dog, I started to salivate ;)
i just dont like change........
could you upload a video with all of them?
Old ident. The "Buzz" is inconseqential, and unless you know the context, it just sounds like earth-loop hum from a faulty microphone lead. To make it work you'd need to dress it up a bit, and that would defeat the "integrity" of having it in the first place.
Old intro music is catchy and recognizable, but it can't replace that moment of excitement when I realize I'm hearing what I'm seeing, a moment I relive every time I hear the buzz sound with the oscilloscope video.
I liked the buzzing sound and the scope when you used it as an outro.
Its just an intro which I believe should be your decision to introduce your content how you want, I prefer the actual content and maybe a puppets clip.
New oscilloscope video with old sound, to implement gradual change with comfort of old sound 👍
Definitely the old Ident. Not onl more recognizable, it's arguably more pleasing to hear. A combination of the Buzz into the old Ident probably would work well too.
Tricky choice, I love both the old music and the buzzing sound.. maybe alternate the two? If I HAD to pick only one though, I'd pick the old music (I still love the reel to reel look too though but the new visual is really cool!!)
The old music seem to be more of an ident sound. But I think the buzzing stick if you used it a couple of times. However, I prefer the reel2reel one.
I like the way you can hear how the image is created and as it spins, however how about the buzz fading into your intro music
Buzz sound of course! The intro and outro musics have always been my pet peeve on the channel, love the content but for some reason these just make me cringe every time!
I prefer the old music over the oscilloscope but I can understand why other people would disagree and be wrong.
Yep, variety is the spice of life!
Why not both?
It seems increasingly likely I'll alternate them...this way I can make sure that no one is happy all the time.
I think you have enough acclaim that you could use both of them intermittently
I like them all and anyway it is the actual video I'm watching for not the intro :)
I still think the old intro sound is just one of the best intros on YouTube, haha. It makes me genuinely happy to hear it. I think it pairs nicely with the oscilloscope visuals, and perhaps if the animation was just a tad longer to match the length of the old intro sound it'd be an even better fit.
I can´t deside either. Think they all got something good. Looking forward to more Vinyl videos in the future. :-)
I voted 'I don't care' because I don't prefer one over the other. I like the buzz sound because it's shorter and matches the video best. However, the old intro music is much more recognizable as one of your videos. Maybe a blend of both?
Dig the new intro. in fact perhaps a BTS about the new intro is in order, I would watch
There isn't much BTS to talk about. I asked Jerobeam if he'd do me a favour and a couple of days later he sent over a WAV file. I asked him to tweak the timing slightly, so the completed word froze for a fraction of a second before starting to spin, he sent back the updated version you can see. The most time consuming thing for me was setting up the shot.
I feel the same way.
Although I prefer it, the new intro seems a bit short.