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30 I M PS E . O R G It is but it shifts throughout and becomes something else. It's a real trademark of a Noah Hawley show. EM: There are also a lot of period cars and vehicles this season. What were those like to work on? MT: Yeah, that was the big challenge because you can't find a whole series of 1950s Cadillacs. There's a lot of mix and matching to be able to pull that off. I bought some car libraries just to prepare for this show. It's a little bit of a mix and match to get the right sound for an individual car. We even spent a lot of time on the car doors. Everything about the car we tried to keep real and authentic to the time. NF: The pandemic hurt us a little bit on that because when we started this season, we weren't sure how far the cars were going to go. As we were starting to do the first couple of episodes, there were cars but not enough of them to go out and record them, but we had always planned on if we had a lot more cars, we'd go out and record them. Then the pandemic hit and we couldn't really get access to go out and do it. So I called in a couple of favors, some friends who I knew had shot some period cars and begged and pleaded, please can I borrow some stuff? There were a couple of people out there that helped us get through some of the tougher scenes when I needed elements. Like Matt said, it's about layering and finding the pieces and really putting them together. In a perfect world, we would have gone out and recorded a lot more, but it just didn't quite work out that way. The production cars sounded really terrible. They don't run as fast as you need them to go. They stall out all the time, so even if we had sent somebody to Chicago to record them, who knows what they would have come back with. Period cars are one thing, but I think cars in general are always a chore. MT: Yeah, I get a lot of pleasure out of cutting cars. APK: Yeah, Matt's the car guy. MT: But Adam, we built a lot of the backgrounds from individual cars. It's hard to find BGs that are authentic, so we would spend a lot of time building BGs with movements, the sound of the cars, the horns, the telephones. These were all details that Adam put together for the show. APK: Yeah, that stuff took some time at the beginning of the process. Just building a background track that would be residential cars, at that time period, and then downtown cars as well. It took some time in the beginning to build 1910s vehicles drive by during a daytime scene.