The Xbox startup sound is an audio logo that’s become synonymous with the game console. But its origins are rooted in solving a logistical problem; how to entertain gamers while they wait for their machines to finish booting up. Featuring Sound Designer and Composer Brian Schmidt and Sound Designer, Composer and Berklee Professor, Michael Sweet.Twenty Thousand Hertz is hosted by Dallas Taylor and produced out of the studios of Defacto Sound.Sign up for Musicbed Membership music.20k.org.Check out the SONOS Beam at sonos.comGet a free month of Splice at splice.com/20k and enter promo code 20k.Become a monthly contributor at 20k.org/donate.Episode transcript, music, and credits can be found here: 20k.org/episodes/xboxstartupsound