Xavania Original · Feature

Iron Sabbath

99% match2024R2h 03mHDR · 4K5.1 + Binaural

A locomotive carries the last honest witness in the country.

1928. A prosecutor boards the night mail with testimony that will collapse a government, and every carriage between him and the border is bought.

Cast & digital humans

Yusuf Andric
Lead
@yusuf-and

On screen: prosecutor guarding the folder

Voice print: firm baritone, period-clipped

SoulPrint Pro · face, eyes, hair, hands, wardrobe and voice locked across every take

Emeric Sol
Supporting
@emeric-sol

On screen: the man in the next compartment

Voice print: quiet menace, close

SoulPrint Pro · face, wardrobe and voice print locked; blocking free

Yusuf Vance
Supporting
@yusuf-van

On screen: mail clerk sorting sacks

Voice print: bluff working-class tenor

SoulPrint Pro · face, wardrobe and voice print locked; blocking free

Sound design — every person, action and object

Dialogue & voice
  • Yusuf Andric — Between here and the border there are nine carriages and not one honest man.
    Ribbon emulation, -23 LUFS
  • Emeric Sol — Then walk faster.
    Boom, steel corridor IR
Foley — frame-matched to the render
Mail sacks
Hessian drag and a rope-knot creak, weight audible per sack
Revolver
Cylinder rotation and a hammer half-cock, cut to the thumb
Coupling
Buffer slam on every speed change, felt in the low mids
Window strap
Leather punch-hole slap against the frame
Folder
Paper edge fan and a string-tie unwind
Ambience beds
  • • Steel-bodied carriage rumble, harder than a wooden car
  • • Steam whistle two carriages forward
  • • Wind through a broken vent
  • • Sorting-car conversation, distant
Score

Solo bass clarinet with a military side-drum figure that only appears when the revolver is on screen

Mix
  • • 5.1 and binaural stereo folds rendered from one bed
  • • Dialogue -23 LUFS, trailer master -14 LUFS, true peak -1 dBTP
  • • Every element is placed from its on-screen position and tracked as the camera moves
  • • Coupling slams are LFE-weighted so the low end tells you the train is braking before the picture does
  • • No library loops on visible actions — each hit is cut to the frame it happens on

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