Recording the sound of Just Cause 3's rumbling boat engine, and the roar of the ocean it moves through, involved a real 60-foot yacht, a man named Watson Wu, multiple microphones and a lot of puke.
When you pilot a yacht in Just Cause 3, you don’t think about the sound of the engine—at least consciously. Your brain acknowledges that, yes, this sounds like you’re behind the wheel of a yacht, and the illusion is created. But recording the sound of that boat’s rumbling engines, and the roar of the ocean as it moves through it, involved a real 60-foot yacht, a man named Watson Wu, multiple microphones and a lot of puke.
Wu was at sea for three hours, most of which was spent being sick. But when he returned to the studio and played the recordings back, none of his retching was audible. “I guess I can’t help but capture great sounds, no matter the situation,” he says. “And if needed, I can puke silently!” This enthusiasm is normal for Wu, and it’s clear from his work, his website and his entertaining Twitter feed that he loves what he does.
Wu also provides audio for other media, from films such as Baby Driver and Transformers, to commercials for Lexus and the US Army. But of all the work he does, he finds videogames the most challenging. “In games you need to record and design sounds for all possible scenarios,” he says. “Movies and TV shows are linear, so I mostly work based on the picture. No matter how many times you watch the movie, it’ll sound the same.
Wu also spent time at the Sebring International Raceway while working on audio for Project Cars 2. “I was asked to record the onboard and external sounds of Red Bull race cars,” he says. “The 600-horsepower Honda Civic rally car was so violent that it broke the battery cable powering my large multitrack field recorder.”But of all the situations Wu’s job has landed him in, having an entire theme park to himself has to rank highly.
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