Dallas Taylor is the host and creator of Twenty Thousand Hertz, a podcast revealing the stories behind the world’s most recognizable and interesting sounds. He is also the Creative Director of Defacto Sound, a TED mainstage speaker, a regular contributor to major publications, and a respected thought leader on the narrative power of sound.

• How sound designers create audio more in line with what our brains expect to hear when capturing it in reality would fall short.
• How the tricks of sound design are akin to a magician's ability to invisibly manipulate our emotions.
• Why we hear certain sounds recycled in movies and trailers to the point of cliché.
• With the perspective-bending nature of sound design occupying so many of his waking hours, does Dallas find elements of the job extending into off-the-clock parts of his life?
• Analog vs. digital (and why many prefer to rely on the older technology).
• And much more...

Full show notes and resources can be found here: jordanharbinger.com/669

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