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Just curious, which music would you use? This happens to be important to me, so some analysis would be appreciated.

EDIT: Assume only a visual feed was available, no audio.

I would frankly like to hear the sounds of a spewing, gushing, burning volcano, even if it's underneath the (also very fun to listen to) sound of the drone itself and all the wind noise. It doesn't seem like a huge leap in intuition to realize that this would be exciting to hear even if the environment is noisy.

Every sound you've ever heard on a nature program is fake, that is to say it's mixed in after from other sources.

>Every sound you've ever heard

That's a really broad claim. DO you have a source for this statement?

yeah I wouldn't say _Every_ but a very large majority most certainly are. I used to delight in ruining people's enjoyment of nature documentaries by pointing out that anything walking on snow is the sound of custard powder being crunched and twisted in a rubber glove! Yeah: I'm a bastard ;)

I like the growl that is administered to every video cat larger than a fat tabby. IF I ever hear that sound IRL, I won't be thinking cougar or bobcat, rather how to deter the jaguar from crushing my skull.

There is a soundbite used to dub over the top of replays in Premiership football as broadcast on terrestrial TV here in the UK. Once you notice it's exactly the same sound every time it's something you can never not notice and it's infuriating! There are a few whoops and screams in it that get me every time and make me cringe.

In this vein there's an amazing line from Man on The Moon when Kaufman refuses to let canned laughter be dubbed over his show: "That's dead people laughing! You know all those people they recorded are dead by now, right!?"

I think you would enjoy this wonderful old Jam Handy video called Back of the Mike:

https://archive.org/details/Backofth1938

using the original sound source wouldn't work with the slomo effect he used.

Drones are very noisy. Unless you take special precautions, the sound from the camera is going to be mostly rotor buzz.

Which as I mentioned is a really cool sound that I would like to hear.

I would prefer that people uploaded their videos with no music, for two reasons.

First, music is a very personal and subjective thing. There's a vanishingly small chance of a video having a song that causes me to discover a new artist that I enjoy, and a large chance I will be annoyed and immediately mute the video.

Second, and more importantly, using copyrighted music makes the video much more likely to be inaccessible on YouTube on mobile devices and tablets.

For drone videos in particular, of which I watch a lot, I vastly prefer just using the audio straight from the camera. Personally, I cut 12 decibels or so, to avoid rupturing the eardrums of viewers with headphones.

I know I am not them but since you seem to want some data^H^H^H^H opinions. I would exclude any songs with words. Probably something slower like Moonlight Sonata but I could see something like 1812 Overture being good (cannon shots and volcanoes).

I get that techno is supposed to make you feel pumped and all but it distracted me way too much. Now had it been say Firestarter or something at least mildly related maybe but I like that song already. I don't mind it when I'm watching something like a compilation of stunts or whatever.

Anything that doesn't drown out the visual experience would be nice.

This video of a booster rocket has excellent, mostly-natural sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aCOyOvOw5c

It came to mind due to the airborne / hostile environment combination...

suggestions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_jwv2QMtAo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrYgm5MML58 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOat_xsGUOw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WHdNub6Agk

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4777565.stm !

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