• Vocal Free Episodes 1-3

    For those of you who are into these vocal free episodes, Wingbeat Pony has released another set!  No embeds this time, just direct links (a lot of them!)

    Episode 1 (Friendship is Magic, part 1)
    Part 1
    Part 2

    Episode 2 (Friendship is Magic, part 2)
    Part 1
    Part 2

    Episode 3 (Ticket Master)
    Part 1
    Part 2

    13 comments:

    1. If these are made from the 5.1 audio with only the center channel muted, it's very likely they're also lacking most sound effects. Can somepony verify this?

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    2. Wow This is cool :D

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    3. @Brownd

      It still has all of the background music, and I'd say about 50% of the sound effects.

      Also, I wouldn't call it vocal "free" more like vocal "very muffled". Once I turned my speakers up, the speech was clearly still there, but softer.

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    4. Pinkie pie out of nowhere!
      hehehe pinkie pie looks cute over here LOL

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    5. @Anonymous
      I second that it's there though very hardly noticable.

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    6. The show has surprisingly much background music. Never noticed most of it with the vocals.

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    7. Is it much easier to get vocals separated rather than background music?

      Just curious.

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    8. So what does one do with these, anyways? Are they used as bases for something?

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    9. @TenchiFreak5
      They're probably for dubbings. Too bad they lack some SFX, as noted, but that can be helped. ;)

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    10. I often wonder how much of MLP:FIM's surprising success has to do with the decision to have a genuine musical score to the episodes as opposed to the usual choice of using recycled stock clips. Probably more than most people realize.

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    11. @Geldon Yetichsky

      Well, it has done wonders for cartoons in the past. For years the only cartoon to use a full orchestra was a little show called The Simpsons. Then came Family Guy, the only show with a strong enough fan following to ever come back from cancellation. TWICE.

      So yeah, even though I don't think that MLP:FiM uses a real 52-piece orchestra like they do, I think you're definitely right that good music helps shows (especially cartoons) succeed quite a bit!

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    12. Too bad we still can't hear what Pinkie Pie's saying at the beginning of Ep. 3 Part 2.

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    13. Would you like to do this with even more episodes? Pretty please?

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