Jacob Shymanski

There's also direction that goes into it too.

It's not all up to him.

There's a team of people coming up with all of this.

Which, by the way, Audible produced these behind-the-scenes little documentaries that they put up on YouTube.

I think it's a two-parter.

They're pretty long too, where they sort of show how this was made.

Lots of interviews, all the different actors.

It's like 90% platitudes with like 10% interesting.

One of the interesting things that I learned is that they didn't use like regular condenser mics on a boom arm.

So the actors aren't sitting down.

They're wearing headset mics and they're standing up and...

acting it out physically and when they're walking they actually walk and i think the way they did it is a lot of the foley is them actually like if they're eating dinner while eating they actually have a plate and fork and knife with them and acting it out physically and you can tell right and then they blend that with added you know atmospheric sounds in the back like the great hall it sounds super legit it's really cool

One of the cool things that they did was because this is a series where the kids age, the first three books has a set of actors for the kids, Harry, Ron, and Hermione, along with a bunch of other the younger characters, you know, like Neville and Draco.

And then moving on to book four, they switch to older actors, which they all sound fantastic to me in book four.

Only one book to play off of, but I'm pretty impressed.

The voice of Harry starting on book four, he's got a deep voice, which is really funny.

Harry sounds like a man, yo.

I get it and it sounds like we're complaining here but everything comes together beautifully with the sound design and the way characters kind of jump back and forth in their dialogue which the pacing is excellent by the way the way it zips from one scene to another there's always like the perfect amount of gap to let you know that it's moving on to the next scene even these like little like really clever sound transitions and it's not just a whoosh it's like

It's like the rustling of papers if you're in the library or like the whoosh of a snitch if you're going towards like the Quidditch match or something.

It's really clever, easy to follow.