Xavania Original · Feature
Velvet Static
96% match2026PG-131h 53mHDR · 4K5.1 + Binaural
A band records an album that only plays correctly in the rain.
Four musicians in a flooded studio chase a sound that requires the weather to cooperate.
Cast & digital humans
Cass Renn
Lead@cass-ren
On screen: singer standing in the water
Voice print: husky alto, room-mic'd
SoulPrint Pro · face, eyes, hair, hands, wardrobe and voice locked across every take
Tobias Sol
Supporting@tobias-sol
On screen: guitarist at the amp
Voice print: laconic baritone
SoulPrint Pro · face, wardrobe and voice print locked; blocking free
Mara Bell
Supporting@mara-bel
On screen: engineer at the patch bay
Voice print: fast technical tenor
SoulPrint Pro · face, wardrobe and voice print locked; blocking free
Sound design — every person, action and object
Dialogue & voice
- Cass Renn — It only sounds right when it's raining.Ribbon at 60cm, wet room IR, -23 LUFS
- Tobias Sol — Then we record until the storm stops.Talkback, control-room processing
Foley — frame-matched to the render
Water in the live room
Displacement on every player movement, wetter as the night goes on
Valve amp
Filament hum and a transformer buzz that changes with the visible dimmer
Ribbon mic
Physical handling thump when the stand is knocked
Drum kit
Skins detuning audibly as the humidity rises
Patch bay
Jack insert click with a signal pop
Ambience beds
- • Rain on a glass roof, heavy
- • Room reverb changing as water level rises
- • Thunder distant then close
- • Electrical hum from wet gear
Score
The band's own performance is the score — one live take, no overdubs, the storm mixed in as an instrument
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
- • Room IR is re-measured for each rising water level; the reverb genuinely gets brighter across the film
- • No library loops on visible actions — each hit is cut to the frame it happens on
