ABSTRACT
Action-combat sound effects and stirring music were playing while the segment of our amateur mortar attack flickered on the bedroom wall. Sound-effect records of the day were pretty dreadful, and only the audiophiles building their own Heathkit high-fidelity systems were interested more in authentic realism and speaker replication than in entertainment expression. Scott Spiegel would record sound effects and backgrounds, many of them from television broadcasts of the Three Stooges films. The nice thing about the Stooges was that they did not have any music during the action scenes, just dialog and loud sound effects. Bruce Campbell admits that sound has had a tremendous effect on his professional career. The real trick was Scott Spiegel mastering the pause button to keep on top of the sync issues. Sometimes Scott would have to fast-forward or rewind the cassette real quick in order for the playback to be right.
