Twenty Thousand Hertz

Dallas Taylor

Twenty Thousand Hertz with Dallas Taylor. 253 episodes in the official feed, 111 hr 52 min of listening. Free official feed published by the creator.

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Length: 253 episodes · 111 hr 52 min
Episodes: 253
Language: English
Feed: RSS
Source: Podcast
Rights: Free official feed published by the creator

Episodes

10 Years of 20K! How It All Began 48:19
How modern Music Supervisors craft the perfect Needle Drop 54:58
Needle Drops: How pop songs first started showing up in movies 42:07
Guess That Sound: Video Game Edition 47:32
Listener Stories 2026 (Gold): Protest Pop & Birthday Ballads 27:11
I'm (Still) Lovin' It: The McDonald's Jingle Saga Continues 33:24
Listener Stories 2026 (Silver): Keyboard Clicks & Singing Forests 26:12
Colbert & Fallon: Mixing Music for Late Night TV 41:39
Listener Stories 2026 (Bronze): AI Music & Coral Crackles 27:30
Eurovision Song Contest: Inside the Gimmicks & Glamour 33:56
John Williams: A Composer’s Legacy 36:21
John Williams: A Composer’s Life 33:07
Age of Audio: The Future of Podcasting (and 20K) 28:40
Age of Audio: The Inside Story of Podcasting 39:48
The Poop Song Conspiracy 37:14
The Heartfelt Music of Bluey w/ Composer Joff Bush 27:40
The Acoustic Worlds of Radiolab Creator Jad Abumrad 33:54
He was deaf for 35 years + Listener Stories kickoff 27:14
Harry Potter and the Sound Designer’s Stone 29:36
When Everything Stopped, He Started Listening 25:14
The State of the 20K Multiverse™ 34:34
Doctor Who & The BBC Radiophonic Workshop 35:45
Butterfly in the Synth: Reading Rainbow’s Magical Theme Song 24:50
Auld Lang What? The surprising origins of the New Year’s song 20:03
Guess That Sound 2025: Youtube Channel Champs 44:15
The Sound of Fallout: From Iconic Games to Prestige TV 39:22
Defying Gravity: The Audio Wizardry of Wicked's Live Vocals 29:51
The Secret Soundtracks of Movies & TV 42:31
Inside Imagineering: How Sound Powers Disney Magic 23:11
Live from New York, I’m Retired! SNL’s Sound Legend Signs Off 33:09
The Nursery Rhyme That Ruined a Rock Band 30:17
Listener Stories 2025 (Gold): Transit Tunes & Childhood Chimes 25:41
Yahoo! The Yodel Heard Around the World 23:09
Super Mario Bros: Koji Kondo’s 8-Bit Masterpiece 30:44
Listener Stories 2025 (Silver): Pinball Pings & Airport Acoustics 27:50
Mixing Madison Square Garden for Vulfpeck’s Biggest Show 36:22
The Music of Jeopardy! From a Lullaby to $100,000,000 22:40
Listener Stories 2025 (Bronze): Siren Calls & Medical Melodies 28:32
I interviewed 5 other Dallas Taylors and things got weird 41:14
Mix Notes: Dumb Farts, Alien Crickets & Junkyard Instruments 26:01
The Deaf Composer: How Beethoven wrote music he couldn’t hear 26:09
The Sonic Brand Makeover We Didn’t Know We Needed 39:29
Inside Apple: Sonic Accessibility 30:40
“In a World…” The epic evolution of movie trailers 21:41
“The Autumn, She’s Been Hit!” The wish that changed Halo forever 41:35
Solar Symphony: Listening to the Sun’s hidden “music” 32:04
Speaker Terror Upper: When Bass Tapes shook the streets 26:33
Radio Station Jingles: 80 Years of Earworms 32:55
Guess That Sound 2024: Sound Pro Smackdown 41:56
Dog Translation Guide: Decoding Barks, Howls, & Growls 37:12
Cat Translation Guide: Decoding Meows, Purrs, & Chirrups 36:14
The Voices of Bluey w/ Uncle Stripe 25:05
The Organic Sound of Bluey w/ Sound Designer Dan Brumm 27:34
"Blah, blah, blah" and the Ungooglable Phrase 24:50
Lofi Girl: The story behind 📚 beats to relax/study to 28:45
How Doctors Listen: A sonic journey through the body 23:27
The Sound of Apple: Marimbas, Radars & Reflections 23:51
The Sound of Apple: Tritones, Chords & Origins 24:34
Listener Stories 2024: Auditory Hallucinations & Family Whistles 20:18
The Dark History of Nursery Rhymes 41:12
Sounds of the Deep: Mysteries and threats beneath the waves 22:00
Boom Bling: TikTok's sonic guerrilla marketing 20:34
Mixing Seth Meyers: Behind the sound of late night TV 24:06
Untranslatable Words: Guess That Meaning! 26:30
Inside Hans Zimmer’s Remote Control Studios 44:14
Hidden Sounds of America: NYC Hum & Underground Organ 25:54
All About That Bass: How pop became obsessed with the 808 24:23
Industrial Musicals: The Golden Age of corporate showtunes 28:52
Into the Huluverse: The sonic evolution of Hulu 23:51
Welcome to Twenty Thousand Hertz 2:27
Guess That Sound 2023: Tournament of Champions 43:08
Tune Tech: Distortion, sequencers, Auto-Tune, and more 25:33
Headphone Handbook: How to pick your perfect pair 23:23
Sounds That Sell: How companies entice us with sonic candy 20:48
Auto-Tone: What will cars sound like in the future? 22:33
Wilhelm Screamix: The sound effect that never dies 19:25
Subtitles On: Why is movie dialogue so hard to understand? 27:09
Gremlins, War Rigs, & Star Trek Punks 23:46
Do you talk to yourself in your head? (Not everyone does) 25:38
The Legend of Zelda: Tones of the Kingdom 28:01
The Legend of Zelda: A Beep to the Past 21:37
From Vinyl to Streaming: How music formats shaped our world 28:27
The secret history of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” 31:05
Vocal Stratosphere: The world’s most extreme singing techniques 34:24
Bug Translation Guide: Decoding Buzzes, Chirps, & Clicks 25:16
Breathe Deep: How I lost my passion and found my purpose 41:58
The Spatial Race & the forgotten genius who invented stereo 31:10
Found In Translation: Guess That Meaning! 19:33
Why insurance jingles never die 34:03
Soundalikes: The secret voice behind Toy Story’s Woody 27:44
Golden: Finding silence in a world of noise 31:32
Recalculating: The surprising lives of GPS voices 29:16
Guess That Sound 2022: Endless Thread 50:55
Synth Showdown: Digital vs. Analog 22:23
Synth Showdown: Moog vs. Buchla 23:52
A Thousand Words: Audio description for all! 27:12
The Booj Strikes Back: Why all modern trailers sound the same 24:07
The weird, wild world of 1-900 numbers 34:24
Tokyo Rose: World War II’s most controversial radio DJ 24:12
TikTalk: The woman who sued TikTok for using her voice 28:03
The sonic secrets behind Ted Lasso 30:13
Sonic Happiness: A guide to feeling better through sound 42:36
Shock Horror A: The origin of the dramatic “Dun, dun, duuun!” 27:02
Sleight of Ear: Behind the scenes w/ Dallas Taylor 24:56
Breathe: My Unexpected Journey 32:58
Relearning Boléro: How our brains rewrite the sounds we hear 38:07
Ghosts in the Hit Machine: The secrets of musical ghostwriters 27:10
Why Windows Got Rid of Startup Sounds 31:33
Ta-da! The history of Windows’ classic startup sounds 26:16
The Waterphone: Hollywood’s spookiest sound effect 24:10
Mind the Gap: NYC & London’s iconic transit voices 32:24
Hidden Hitmakers: The unsung heroes behind pop’s biggest hits 30:42
Happy Little Episode: The soothing voice of Bob Ross 41:21
Pirate Radio: Britain’s AM rebels of the ’60s 33:23
Being Dallas Taylor: Meeting my name twins 40:29
Sul Sul! Behind the gibberish language of The Sims 25:21
Guess That Sound 2021: Underunderstood 37:57
The Static Angel: How HBO perfected its sonic identity 25:44
It’s Not TV: Behind HBO’s legendary sounds 23:23
One simple trick scientists say will stop snoring 40:08
Creature Speakers: The art of voicing monsters 26:49
How blind gamers are changing the world of video games 24:56
Sports Without Sight: The sound-driven world of blind athletes 21:32
Sound Cinema: Experiencing film through audio description 27:19
Sonic Bubbles: Escaping noise, but at what cost? 24:13
Domestic Symphony: Why your dryer has a theme song 22:20
The mysterious “Windsor Hum” is finally solved! 13:34
The Buzzer: Are there secret spy messages on the radio? 31:02
Stay Tuned: The new voices of the Looney Tunes 25:44
Inside the Foley Prop Room: Frozen, Jurassic Park & more 21:26
The Art of Foley: Bringing Slimer & Batman to life 20:46
Leaky Pipeline: The fight that revolutionized cinema sound 25:16
Auditory Icons: Credit card beeps to driverless car melodies 16:50
Progression Obsession: Pop music’s most used chord changes 25:34
SM7: The mic that shaped sound and culture 22:09
The Sound of Minecraft: A melancholy masterpiece w/ C418 24:15
20th Century Fox Fanfare: A family legacy 24:49
Sonic Weapons: How “sound cannons” are used for control 20:38
I'm Lovin’ It: How “Ba da ba ba ba” took over the world 23:10
The Physics of Sound w/ Bill Nye the Science Guy 22:45
Seeing Sounds, Tasting Names: The world of synesthesia 25:35
Sing Gently: Singing together, even when apart 33:20
The Song Hunter: How Alan Lomax saved the sounds of America 24:43
From Klingon to Dothraki: How sci-fi languages shape worlds 26:08
Space Audity: The challenges of space communication 21:39
Sonic Utopia: Can we build a better sounding world? 25:14
The Cyborg, The Scientist, and the Death of Silence 48:42
Dies Irae: The death melody haunting Hollywood 26:48
Perfect Pitch: Unlocking Jacob Collier’s musical brilliance 27:27
Tyrannosaurus FX: What dinosaurs really sounded like 23:37
Napster: How free music broke the industry 36:43
Vocal Discords: When nodules silence singers 21:42
Deepfake Dallas: How AI learned to speak like me 22:27
The Weight of Noise: One writer’s struggle in New York City 23:22
Tudum! The story behind the iconic Netflix sound 21:58
Guess That Sound 2020: My Brother, My Brother & Me 41:51
Hamilton’s Sonic Secrets: Behind the Broadway phenomenon 28:42
Stop, Collaborate and Listen: Can you copyright a vibe? 23:30
Copyrights & Wrongs: Musical Inspiration vs. Plagiarism 24:42
Makin’ Whoopee: The hilarious history & science of fart sounds 26:14
Pew Pew! The making of Star Wars’ iconic sounds 29:19
That’s All Folks! Mel Blanc’s curtain call 20:13
What’s Up, Doc? Mel Blanc and the magic of Looney Tunes 24:40
Twenty Parts Per Thousand: Designing with smell 21:54
Cremona: Saving the world’s most prized violin sounds 23:36
Satanic Panic: Backwards messages and '80s hysteria 28:27
Noise “R” Us: The evolution of noisy toys 25:40
Good Vibes: Unlocking music’s hidden power over your brain 25:24
4’33”: John Cage’s revolutionary “silent” musical piece 31:34
The Seinfeld theme song w/ Composer Jonathan Wolff 26:14
Sonic Wonderland: The world’s most incredible sounding places 18:35
Historically Speaking: How language & accent shape your brain 26:04
Vroom Vroom: The symphony of high-performance engines 26:05
Baby Shark: From summer camp song to viral earworm 36:01
Virtual Choir: 8,000 Voices, One Song 25:37
The Price is Right: The drama behind TV’s catchiest theme song 18:53
The Loudness War: Can streaming finally end it? 32:02
The [COMPRESSED] history of music mastering 27:43
You’ve Got Mail: The voice behind AOL 20:09
From Spinal Tap to The Simpsons: Voice acting w/ Harry Shearer 18:40
Hear Here: The messy history of architectural acoustics 19:11
What makes Stradivarius violins so special? 22:01
808: The drum machine that changed music forever 23:41
Soundmarks: AT&T, United Airlines, and inventive sonic branding 26:22
Deaf Gain: The promise and controversy of cochlear implants 22:16
Plants That Listen (and some that sing) 20:02
Sonic Illusions: Can you really trust your ears? 20:39
Mother of Dragons(sounds): Game of Thrones’ bittersweet sounds 19:41
Sound Escapes: Nature’s untouched soundtrack 28:00
The Voyager Golden Record: Humanity’s message to the cosmos 31:43
Bird Translation Guide: Decoding Tweets, Hoots, & Warbles 24:37
Phone Tones: The hidden language of phone number beeps 22:53
The Booj: The secret sound formula behind blockbuster trailers 22:36
Dining on Decibels: Why are restaurants so noisy? 21:27
Do Not Disturb: The unseen impacts of alarms and alerts 24:23
Blue! 42! How helmet radio changed the NFL 23:01
Silence: Dispatches from the quietest place on Earth 21:33
A sonic journey through the Solar System 19:03
Boots ’n Cats: The scientific secrets of beatboxing 21:47
Being George Clooney: Dubbing Hollywood celebrities 30:11
The Xbox Startup Sound: Crafting a console classic 21:53
Theater for the Mind: The Golden Age of radio dramas 29:45
Theremin: The instrument that defined classic sci-fi & horror 25:31
Cartoon Sound Effects: From Steamboat Willie to The Jetsons 27:22
Behind the Mic: The making of Twenty Thousand Hertz 31:12
Jingles: How they hooked us and why they vanished 28:03
“Intel Inside” and other sonic branding brilliance 24:04
Loop Groups: The art of movie background chatter 25:53
Slot Machines: The addictive power of sound 16:14
Misophonia: Why we can't stand certain sounds 16:26
THX Deep Note Part 2: How a lost file shaped movie history 25:19
The THX Deep Note: From chaos to cinematic legend 23:53
Amen Break: The world’s most sampled drum beat 21:31
Ultrasonic Tracking: Are our phones really listening to us? 21:04
ASMR: Why certain sounds give you tingles 22:03
Broadway to Cirque du Soleil: Sound design for the stage 20:05
Hidden Melodies: Discovering the music in our speech 15:14
Epileptic Symphonies: Turning seizures into music 26:11
Hamilton: Crafting the sound of the Broadway smash hit 27:27
False Alarm: How the Emergency Alert System went wrong 23:14
Muzak: How background music took over the world 16:15
Six O'Clock Soundtrack: The art of TV news music 23:48
314-914-6093: When Michelle Obama tweets your phone number 22:09
The Gift: Dr. Amar Bose’s audio legacy 21:38
Facebook & Google Pixel: Designing the perfect alert sound 22:01
Let It Beep: The rise and fall of the Mac startup chime 16:05
Disney Parks: How Imagineers use sound to enchant visitors 19:32
Spooky Sounds: The secrets of horror sound design 23:16
Acoustical Umbilical Cord: Why crying makes us human 20:02
Level Up: How video games tell an immersive story through sound 20:22
Watergate: How a tape recorder brought down a president 23:21
Sonic Seasoning: Can sound affect our taste buds? 16:25
Fight or Flight: Why airplane sounds make us anxious 23:37
Sound Firsts: Landmark recordings in history 26:42
Noise Pollution: The hidden costs 17:13
Silent Sea: Whalesong & Undersea Noise Pollution 21:05
Evolution of Accents: From Shakespeare to Valley Girl 23:34
The Wilhelm Scream: Hollywood’s most iconic sound effect 17:04
The voices behind Dragon Ball Z & Firewatch 16:55
Hearing Loss: What causes it and how to prevent it 17:32
From Screams to Serenity: How sound shapes us 17:36
Foley: Hollywood’s hidden sound heroes 14:23
What do other planets sound like? 19:16
Dolls That Talk (and some that listen) 14:42
Car Sounds: Crafting every click, rev, and beep 14:49
Audio Descriptions: Not just for the visually impaired 12:37
Inside Movie Soundtracks: How every layer tells a story 14:46
From Analog to Digital (and back again) 14:07
Sounds We've Lost: Echoes of the Past 14:10
The Windsor Hum: Canada’s Most Mysterious Sound 10:21