You settle into a seat at the movie theater. The first trailer begins, and seconds later it hits you: the bass drop.
That rumbling sound effect has become a staple of previews in recent years, and a new compilation from CinemaRaven features 20 trailers of 2017 films that use the “low digital drop” effect.
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“This is by no means all the drops used in 2017 trailers,” the description reads. “Just a lot of them.”
So when did it all start?
A 2013 New Yorker piece by Ian Crouch traces the sound as it’s used in trailers to the ones cut for the 2010 Christopher Nolan film “Inception."
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