Sound Expert Ranks the Best V8 Engine Sounds
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Everybody loves the sound of a roaring V8, but which V8 sounds the best? Today we are gonna find out.
We are joined by Mark Mangini, an Academy Award winning sound designer. The dude responsible for the engine noises in this film is none other than Mark himself!
WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en- Everybody loves thesound of a roaring V8,but which V8 sounds the best?Today we are gonna find out.I am joined by Mark Mangini.(audience applauds)Academy Award winning sound designer.The dude responsible for the engine noisesin "Mad Max:Fury Road."AKA way too qualifiedfor this kind of video.We are gonna take a look at10 different sounding V8sthat you guys submitted,and then rank them,find out once and for all,what is the best sounding V8?This is Mark.I'm James.And this is "The D-List."Thank you to Geologie forsponsoring today's video.You know,we talk a lot about someslightly uncomfortable thingshere at Donut.Whether it's talking about hair loss,or trimming your nether regions,we generally do care about allyou guys and your wellbeing.And that's why we've added Geologieto our portfolio of partnersto try and help you guys out.Geologie is a men's personalizedsimple skincare routineformulated for daily use.It's truly personalized for your skinand great for individualswith sensitive skin,acne,dark eye circles,and even wrinkles.To start, all you have to do istake Geologie's 30 second diagnostic quiz,and then start with a trial set.At the beginning,you get a 30 day trialof all four products.The Everyday Facewash,Vital Morning Face Cream,Repairing Night Cream,and Nourishing Eye Cream.That's a lot of creams.After thatyou are in total controlof your skincare routine.You can subscribe toreceive 90 day suppliesor build your own routine à la carte.So find out why Geologiehas over 3,000 five star customer reviewsand head on over to geologie.comand take their free skincare quizto save up to 40% on your 30 day trial,or just click the link below.And now back to the show.Mark, one award winning artist to another,you got an Academy AwardI got a Streamy, so.(Mark laughs)Who are you and what do you do?- I am a sound designer.That means my job is torecord, create, design,all the sounds that you hear in a movie.So for example, as you mentionedin a film like "Mad Max"all those vehicles,and there is hundreds of them,needed a signature personality.It was my job to recordand edit and fabricateeach one of themto make them come alive on screen.- We are gonna listen to 10 enginesthen talk a little bit aboutwhy it sounds that way,and then we are gonnarank 'em on the Monolist.Cool, so are you ready to jump right in?- I can't wait to embarrass myself.(James laughs)(engine starts)(engine revs)Nice burbles.Solid burbles.- Were you talking? (laughs)- I was just commenting on the burbles.- Yeah, I love the burbles.- (laughs) Yeah.- Especially that flap on the downshift.- Yeah, so as an expert,how would you describethe sound of that V8?- Well, my first impression isit sounds a little highpitched for an American car.Very high rev,I'd say, you know, redlineon this car is 7,000 RPM.Love that.That blip that you get on the downshift.So I'm digging this sound so far.Liking it.- The engine you just heardis from a Corvette ZO-6.- Oh, no way.(engine revs)Ah.- Great car.- I'm stunned.- Super fast for what it is.- Shocked and stunned.Well look, it didn't get a fail,but I didn't swoon,so let's just put it in the middle for nowbecause it had some attributesthat were really exciting,right on America made.- (laughs) All right,you ready for the next one?- Yeah.(engine starts)(engine revs)(James laughs)Wow.Now that is excitement, man.- It sounds like an F1 car.- I love that.I love that.- If you are talking to adirector or your team on a film,and you wanted that sound,how would you describe that?- Well, high RPM,rapid acceleration.It's a whine.The first word thatcomes to mind is whine.It's that, you know,as you get up into the 8,000,9,000, 10,000 RPM range,you just,it's screaming.It's not roaring or you know, growling,like the deep V8s,the American,the old Chevy's,it's screaming.And there is a sort of a beautifulfrightening quality to that.That if I wanted to go furtherI'd put like a monkey screamon top of that at the top end.(monkey screams)Just put it over the edge.- (laughs) That's awesome, yeah.That is a Ferrari 458.- Wow.- It redlines at 9,000 RPM.- Ah!- One of the reasonsit sounds like that isit has a flat plane crank,higher RPMs,better acceleration,gets it going quicker.- And I might add a good recording.A compelling recording.Right on to whoever captured that.- LoreninHD, good job buddy.So I think I wanna putthat above the Corvette.- I'm totally with you.It definitely belongsjust for the sheer emotionalimpact that it has.- Yeah, it's very dramatic.- Yeah, I wanted theCorvette to do better,I want us to buy American but,(James laughs)here we go.The next one, I want you to flap it.- Okay, yeah.- I want you to make asound effect with it.Can you do that?(board clinks)Oh, that's so satisfying. (chuckles)- (laughs) Hold on.- I wanna record that. (laughs)- Okay, next one.(engine starts)(engine revs)- Got it.I'm gonna go out on a limband say decidedly American.- I agree.- Decidedly contained.Not a lot of drama in that sound.I found it rather dull.(upbeat music)- That was a Shelby GT350.(engine revs)- My sister in law has one of these.- Does she really?Your sister in law is cool.- Carroll Shelby was a friend of hers.- What!- And he gave her one ofthe first ones off the line.- What!I've never been more jealousof a sister in law.- My sister in law.And it just sits in her garage.- What!- And they don't drive it. (laughs)- Maybe 'cause it sounds so dull.(Mark laughs)I love this car.- Gorgeous car, no doubt.- It's beautiful.- No doubt.- Like the Ferrari ithas a flat plane crankbut it obviously sounds way different.One of those reasons is ithas a different firing order.Where the Ferrari goes up down, down up,this car goes up down, up down.- Does it also have to adhereto different like, EPA standardsfor like with the cat andthe mufflers and the--- They actually designedthe exhaust manifoldsto sound more American.And like when they--- Ah, yeah.See, I'm not so stupid.- (laughs) When theyfirst developed the carit sounded too European,and so they--- Interesting.Oh, but then go the other way.Give it the balls.Give it some throat.- Wanna flap?- I wanna (chuckles) let's seeif I can even get this right.Ready, one, two, three.(board clinks)(Producer laughs)We need more magnetism.- We need morepowerful magnets.- Yeah, we need better magnets.- Oh, this is so--- Or we'll get like 600pound magnets. (laughs)- Oh, now look what I have done.Sorry.- This next one is a good one.- Oh all right, ready.(engine starts)(engine revs)(Mark laughs)- You wanted authority.That's pretty authority.- You know what though?I'm still not impressed.I don't like the sound of it.Especially in that acceleration curve.You get that flutterthat does not sound even.It sounds like not properly tuned to me.But maybe this is afeature, not a bug. (laughs)(James laughs)I'm not exactly sure.And I always discountpoints on deceleration.You take your foot off the gasand you get too many of those (mumbles).I didn't feel the throat.I'm still waiting for that (rumbles).- I feel like this one,like you talk about animalslike this one kind ofsounds like a big cat.- Funny you should say that.- A bark, a tiger bark.- I did a film decades agocalled "Raiders of the Lost Ark"and for the--(Producer laughs)- Have you heard of it?- For the truck chase,we added lion and tigergrowls for the truck engine.And if you go back and listenthey are patently obvious once you know.(upbeat music)(engines rev)- I'll catch them!- Good observation.- (chuckles) Yeah.- Animal growls and engines.A lot of kinship.- Yeah, that sounds cool.And you mentioned the pops andburbles in the Jaguar F-Type.That is the Jaguar F-Type.- That's the FTR?- Like now every new carhas like the (rumbles)on the acceleration,but this was like thefirst one that came outand it kind of set that trend.- Beautiful car.- Yeah, they arereally kind of subdued.- But I'm like, did it sound detuned?Does it sound like maybe notin perfect working order?- I think they did it on purpose,but they purposefullymade the car sound broken.So where would you put this?Not a huge fan.- Above the 350 but below the Z06.The Z06 had some merits.- He is hanging in there.- He is hanging in there,but my blessed countrymen Enzo is(James laughs)hopefully gonna staythere for the remainder.- It's hard to beat thesound of a Ferrari V8.I'm just saying.- Right.- All right, you ready?- Okay, sorry.(engine revs)Wow.(engine revs)(chuckles) Wow.Wow.Good.Interesting excitement,that sort of almost like backfire soundis kind of compelling.- Almost sounds likeit's like running and takinga breath between shifts.It's like (grunts).- Yeah, which makes youthink about it for a second.That gives it character.I just don't know what car Iwould be tracking that way.- That is an AMG 4.0Biturbo.Biturbo of course means--- Woo!- Two of them.- That is the four liter crossplane V8which replaced the naturallyaspirated 6.2 liter V8that a lot of people were huge fans of.And it's just awesome to know thatthat sound is coming out of that car.- Hard to imagine.But Mercedes is not known,that's not in their character.- Yeah, so you liked this one.Where would you put it?- Yeah, the poppy stuff,because I didn't likethe tuning of the Jag,I'm gonna still put it below the Corvette,but above the F type,because there wassomething snappy about it,it just felt in better tune,and I'm impressed thatMercedes has, you know,given some rich peoplea way of announcing themselves. (laughs)- You know, we just wannamake the rich louder.(laughter)- All right, this is getting good.The excitement is building.(engine revs)Interesting.- I like that one.- Interesting and boring for me.Unfortunately, you know,what I'm discoveringbecause I'm Italian is thatI like the drama so--(laughs)- (laughs) We blew ouraward with the Ferrari,and now he is like, Imean it's not Ferrari.- But think of thetension that's building.You can do, "Is he gonna top the Ferrari?"- (chuckles) This is a Lexus LC500.The engine was co developed by Yamaha.(engine revs)- Was this the one youwere telling me aboutwith the tuning of the sound?- Lexus and Yamaha have madeengines together a few timeswhere the focus has really been on sound.- I love these guysthat they care about sound,that sound is part of the experience.And look, this is crashed,but I'm giving points justbecause they care about sound.- Yeah, definitely.- So I'm gonna say belowthe Corvette still,I'm still impressed with that Z06,but above the AMG.- Good job Lexus.- I gotta give them points for that.(engine revs)Wow, that was incredible.- It sounds dangerous.- Oh man, that was,that's goosebumps stuff.I have no idea what that vehicle isbut it had power and emotion,didn't have the deep throaty stuff,but it had that kind ofF1 kind of quickacceleration up to the top.- Yeah, that he wasshifting like every second.- Yeah.It was fast.This was just clean (rumbles).And it's just,there is nothing stopping it.- This is an Ariel Atom. (laughs)- Oh, I've seen that.I've seen that on "Top Gear" as well.I'm pretty sure they did an episode.- The one they famouslymade Jeremy Clarkson's facein a mess.- Yes. (laughs)- So, it sounds dangerous becauseI thought it is dangerous. (chuckles)So that engine is actuallytwo four cylinder Suzukimotorcycle engines put together.It revs to 10,500 RPM.Where would you rank this guy?- Just below the Ferrari.- Yeah, sorry Corvette.- Came close.You know in opera they say thatyou always remember the sopranosyou don't remember thebasses and the tenors.These are the sopranos.These are the--- Unforgettable. (laughs)- (laughs) I'm sorry to be so Italian.(laughter)- All right, so I think youare gonna like this next one.- I think so too.(engine revs)Oh.Oh yeah.(engine revs)Oh there it is.There it is.(engine revs)Yeah.Yeah.Yeah.All right.I'm going way out on a limband I'm gonna say that's American.It's a big American V8,and it has that blappie,growly, deeper notethat I just love.- That is like peak V8.- Yeah.Well, I didn't know thatwas a term. (laughs)- (laughs) Yeah.That is a Mopar 440cubic inch big old block.- Gorgeous.- This is a 7.2 literV8.- That's a beast.- There is nothing really going on with itexcept big. (laughs)- Yeah, no cat for sure.- No.And yeah, that is one of the reasons thatit does sound like thatbecause this is pre emissions.- All right, so if this is thesoprano, the operatic sopranothat's rage against the machine.(James laughs)We get to do the doppelganger.I'm gonna drop it justbelow the Ferrari 458because we have to have contrast.There is a place for everythingin the Sonic Universe.And we have to acknowledgethat ballsyness.- That's a beautiful sentiment.(Mark laughs)There is room for everythingin the Sonic Universe.We are switching it up alittle bit with this one.- Okay.(engine revs)(chuckles) Well,the quality of therecording notwithstanding,we didn't get sort of maybe the dramaticsthat we got in some ofthe other recordings.It's hard to say.But the first thing thatcame to mind was bee buzzing.(bee buzzes)On those first revs.- I thought dump truck because(Mark laughs)that is a diesel engine.- Get out of town.- That is the Detroit Diesel2 stroke screaming Jimmy.- I would have never guessed,because on the diesel youdidn't get that J break sound,and I thought I wouldhave guessed it had I,I would have guessed ithad I heard the J break.- Under load it sounds a lot differentbecause there is so much morepressure in the cylinder.- I have,for a movie I did called"Die Hard with a Vengeance"it was number fourof the "Die Hard" series.(Producer laughs)The movie revolves around stealing gold,sorry, spoiler alert,stealing gold from the federal reserve,and they bring in all thesebig rigs to steal the gold.I got to literally hang off the side of itmicing the big exhaust pipes.Anyways, we had some funwith those recordings.- Yeah, that's awesome.- It still has to go at the bottom.- (laughs) Yeah.- But--- It's a dump truck.- Props for tricking me andthrowing that in there. (laughs)- So this is the last one.- Oh, be another.- And we are gonna endit on with a banger.(engine revs)- Oh. (bleep)(James laughs)Oh, there is that scream.That is just sheer,just bliss.It felt like there wasthis like turbine whine,or a supercharger whine,I can't put my finger on it.Maybe it's,what do you call that big fan beltthat dragsters have on them?Boy, that's compelling stuff.That to me is,that gets the audiences bloodboiling when they hear that.- Yeah, it's super dramatic.That is a supercharger.It's a twin screw superchargerfound on the 6.2 liter supercharged V8in the Dodge Demon.- Dodge!Wow, God bless America.That's beautiful.Oh!- So that whine that you are hearingis just actual air getting shovedthrough these two turbines.- Is it really?Yeah, I heard spinning like giant crank.Something spinning around like mad.- It was like a tornadowarning system. (laughs)- Can I hear the Ferrari one more time.- Tiebreaker, tiebreaker.- (laughs) Tiebreaker is what I want.- But at the end it is a close heat.(engine revs)- Done.Done.(engine revs)I don't have to hear any more.(James laughs)It's just, it's so pure.It's artistry.That's just poetryin mechanics.- Good on Dodge for makinga screamer like that.- Yeah.I'm sure Enzo is lookingup from hell super--- What?- All right, saint Enzo islooking down from heaven.(Mark laughs)Super proud that hislegacy is being carried onwith the Ferrari 458.The best sounding V8 in the world.Like I said at the beginning,all of these sounds aresubmitted by you guys,so I really wanna thank you.I wanna thank Mark for coming down hereand offering his expertise.Let me know in the comments belowif you disagree with anythingthat is totally cool,we love a little discourse here.- Subjective.Completely subjective.- (chuckles) Speaking of discourse,we also have a discord,it's one of the perks ofthe Donut Underground,that is our membership programwhere you can get way more Donut stuffthan we could provide on the main channel.To learn more about that,I'll put a link in the description,or there is a join button downthere sometimes. (chuckles)I love you.- And remember, when yougo to the movie theatersdon't forget to listen,and don't accept (bleep) sound.