The Sound Of THX - Sound Design Tutorial

The "Deep Note" is the rumbling, out-of-pitch sound that begins with aural chaos and quickly fuses into a harmonious tone right before our ears, moments before the feature film begins to play in a movie theater. It was developed by a sound engineer working for the company THX Ltd which was founded by George Lucas in 1983 to provide a high-quality, predictable playback environment and ensure that any film soundtrack "mixed" in THX would sound as near as possible to the intentions of the mixing engineer. The first movie-showing to showcase this sound right after the lights went down was "Return Of The Jedi" back in May of 1983.
For the purpose of this tutorial, I will be using "Massive" by Native Instruments to demonstrate how to recreate the Deep Note sound and try to come as close as possible to the original sound design.

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