Jacob Shymanski

And then the banter in between characters, which I don't think the characters were, the actors were in the same room recording most of the time.

But it sounds really good to me.

And that's, the credit goes to editors for putting that together in a natural way.

They recorded at Hogwarts.

I'm thinking of scenes like something simple, you know, Professor McGonagall drops her books because she gets startled by something and then uses magic to get the books back towards her.

Like you're like a little whoosh and then a plop plop plop of the books sort of stacking each other.

You can just picture it.

But the way all these sound effects tie into the narration and the dialogue is...

can contribute to a strange sense of timing.

Because the story and the dialogue needs to make space for the narration and the sound effects.

And so sometimes there's like a weird gap in dialogue or action, or it'll feel like something that...

because it sounds like there's a microphone in a scene with actors that's supposed to play out in real time and then it'll just like stop for a description and then you get description and then like a sound effect and then it sort of restarts and it takes a while to get used to that it's very unique if you've never heard an immersive audiobook like this one do you know what i mean

The first couple chapters of the first book, I think they put particular attention to the sound design because they're like the most immaculate out of all of them.

And I know what soundscape chapter you're talking about where the narration is just describing Vernon Dursley's day.

And then you just hear him.

He gets in the car and then you hear the opening of a car door and then him driving through traffic.

You can hear the cars beep, beep, beep all around.

And then, you know,

All throughout, you hear Vernon like, you know, grunting and huffing and puffing because you know he's there.

Otherwise, how would you know that he's there, right?