Video: Remy Metailler Sends Squamish Slabs

 Thank you!

 Totally Agree. "Must Watch"

 This gives me the same vibes as Brage's Sound of Mayhem, makes me want to grab my bike immediately and head out. Love it, the sound of the slabs and wind bring it all to life. Really great stuff.

 I was literally thinking Maxxgrip 2 weeks as well

 Can confirm, don't go

 it's a prison, don't bother

 Whatever they say… I’ll be back!

 I would assume it's sound design that was added after the fact, yeah. Really no other way to do it unless you want to listen to a drone whining for 5 mins though.

What they might have done is have Remy ride each line once or twice with a mic on and recording sound. I assume he'd want to take a practice run or two for each line before the drone follows anyway, so you just throw a mic somewhere and a recorder in his pack for those runs (or do some wireless setup if the distance isn't too far). That'd give you something pretty close to "real" sound that wouldn't be too hard to sync with the drone footage of each line afterwards.

 Any sound engineer around? I wonder if it's doable to just filter out the drone noise frequencies from an audio recorded in the rider/bike.

 Yeah, don’t care if it’s dubbed or not, you can’t beat that sound of rubber scraping across slab!

 @charliewentoutside: Would it be possible to record a track using small directional microphones mounted to fork and rear triangle pointed downwards (towards the tire contact patch). Not sure how small directional microphones can get these days but when recording acoustic guitar I noticed how much it matters how you aim the mic. Too much towards the fretboard and the string noise is unbearable, closer to the body and the string noise is gone. Maybe if you mount mics to the bike as mentioned, the drone noise could be minimal. Plus, these drones emit noise at a very specific (annoying) frequency band so they might be able to just filter it out using the equalizer. You probably wouldn't miss much of the tire noise if you carefully filter out the drone noise.

 @paulomach: I've seen guys put a lavalier mic on their seat tube near the bottom bracket. He could have also just clipped one to his shirt and kept a small Zoom recorder running in his backpack. Then they just have to sync up the audio in post with the drone footage. Safa Brian does (or at least used to) do something similar.

 @vinay: It might be! I'm only an amateur when it comes to sound design; I can tell you I don't think *I* could effectively filter out the drone noise and still have it sound that good, but pros might be able to.

One challenge to filtering it would be that the drone distance from Remy varies quite a lot though, so it'll be varying in frequency and volume, which I imagine would make it tougher to filter effectively. (It emits at a constant frequency, but speed and distance from the mic will make the recorded frequency of it vary, I believe).

If it were ME, I wouldn't bother trying, I'd just do the sound design entirely in post (ideally with no-drone recordings from Remy's test runs). But again, I'm just an amateur, so maybe that filtering is more doable for the real pros!

 @charliewentoutside: You could do some filtering, but since the frequencies we want to hear (hub, tires..) are in an overlapping range, you would notice that something is weird with the sound. Definetely easier to close-mic the bike as already suggested or do a second run for the audio (i think that's what i'd prefer. You can easily adjust time differences in post and you can put your mic where it sounds good.)

 @charliewentoutside: In post production, if you only use the channels from the directionally mic’ed rider, the bike and trail sounds can be made much louder, drowning out any ambient drone noise.
Works a treat.
The clip producers have in their heads but rarely get… rider, filmer, Sound(!!!) and Squamish.
Lovely.

 This is the guy who did the sound design, pretty impressive resume ... www.keithwhiteaudio.com

 I think you're conflating difficulty and risk.

Things can be very difficult, and thus require a lot of skill, without being risky. The drone pilot isn't taking any risk (in terms of their health) but that doesn't mean that what they're doing doesn't require a lot of skill.

 @charliewentoutside: Thanks, I'm sure you're right, but the skill of these top riders I find so inspiring to watch, whereas the drone pilots just remind me of someone who has loads of gaming experience - I can't help finding it way less impressive.

 They are not, and for good reason (they’re gnarly as it gets and should not be attempted by the general mtb public). But if you are at all familiar with the sea to sky it’s pretty easy to figure out where a lot of them are

 YUP, serious skills on that pilot.