Nod to The Legend · The engineers · 1979
Walter Murch
Film editor and the first "sound designer"
On Apocalypse Now (1979), Murch earned what's considered the first sound designer credit, and the film's mix helped set the layout for surround sound in cinemas.
Still heard: Sound design as a craft, and 5.1 thinking, carry his fingerprints.
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