Talk:Advantage Audio/@comment-26104212-20170713022453

IMO the sound design of this service's creatives tends to feel or be deliberately limited, with specific regards to overusing the Universal/Disney/H-B wolf howl (often cutting the descending part of the howl to the "hooting" howl portion that followed) and that crowd cheering with someone's obnoxious whistle--cliché and personally irritating. Certainly they could record wolves or crowd walla! They also seem to avoid use of "Hollywoodedge Sky Rocket Loud High" (excludes projects with sound design from other services, like Timone and Pumba, which also used Warner Bros Sound), and scarcely use "Hollywoodedge Quick Whistle Zip By CRT057505" & "Hollywoodedge Several Rapid Swish CRT054101" (both Disney sfx); most other sound services, like Hacienda Post and even Skywalker Sound, use these sounds at some point in their projects. (Personally, those sfx are irritating to me yet so common in most media that the lack of these sounds sounds... too unnatural to me.) These limits in sound design make me prefer the talents of Jeff Hutchins, Robert Hargreaves, Randy Thom, Glenn Oyabe, Joel Valentine, Michael Geisler, and others, although their tweaks of classic cartoon sfx are still very interesting to me.

In addition, most of Disney's cartoons these days use this service. The character design & animation in Star vs. The Forces of Evil could use the sound design of aforementioned creatives who could very well detail this often very quiet show, although I don't criticize the special sounds designed for the show--I don't want those to be replaced/redesigned. The same thoughts go to Gravity Falls; both shows had much effort that was put into them. It's likely, unfortunately and in need or desire of Advantage, that Big Hero 6: The Series won't use Skywalker Sound/Shannon Mills or at least the sounds they did for the film, from which the show roots; the lack of Skywalker in place of Advantage was obvious with Netflix's TV show spin-offs of Home & The Croods, which already featured the finest sound designer ever, Randy Thom. Some sounds in Phenias and Ferb Star Wars included the obvious works of Skywalker relating to Star Wars material only (lightsaber clashes, carbon freeze chamber, etc.) while the Imperial Star Destroyer's guns were redesigned by Robert Poole II, which violates the familiar soundscape of Star Wars.

I don't mind working with them or supporting them, but I personally set my intentions to work with most other fine cartoon & Skywalker sound designers.