Favorite sound effects?
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Lord Boron
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The alien sounding noise in the original Alien trailer. Creeped the hell out of me when I was a kid.
as i sit right now in the parking lot trying to leave work... my starter lets go... makes me think of the sound the falcon makes with the broken hyper drive....
i'm making the sound right now lol.... oh AAA where are u...
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Solos blaster
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As my screen name is apt, Han's blaster sound is one of my absolute favorites. I know the regular blasters were from tapping a guide wire and the tv tube bit for lightsabers but, I don't think I've ever heard how they did that one.
Other favorite sounds:
Proton pack powering up.
Speeder bikes
Aliens Motion tracker, solo unsettling and anxiety building.
Gen1 TF footsteps
Hyperdrive engines
The 'swoosh' door sounds from Alien/s
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oh man i forgot the proton pack start up and hum! yes add that tommy list!
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Solos blaster
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Very true!
I forgot to put that on my list too. Especially for how "unspectacular" and no fancy, special sounds it sounds like a real world piece of equipment. Same with the Proton pack and that's why I think I like them so much.
I forgot to put that on my list too. Especially for how "unspectacular" and no fancy, special sounds it sounds like a real world piece of equipment. Same with the Proton pack and that's why I think I like them so much.
Could have used the original roar and just pitched it a little lower
Well not really. But still a nice read, thanks
:wacko "Nondiegetic woosh" never heard of that before. That is a little something to add to my English vocabulary :lol
I have slowly started working on recreating the Superman intro sequence and thought I would try and recreate that particular sound effect
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i heard they used a elephant and a loin and put it together to make the trex roar. i dont know if its true but i swear i can hear a elephant after i read that
J EM
Well-Known Member
Not sure about whether a loin used but an elephant sound was definitely used, in fact, you can blatantly hear one of the most common stock elephant sounds used for the T-Rex roar (without mixing or altering the sound at all) notably after the T-Rex catches one of the running gallimimus. In JP
I'll add one more of my favorites.
The troll roar in LotR. It wasn't heard in LotR first as I've heard it in some movies made prior to LotR. I think LotR made that sound effect recognizable so I know it as the "troll" roar
Zombie_61
Master Member
Similar to this, the loud "whirring" sound in the original Star Trek series whenever they would increase or decrease the Enterprise's warp speed. I don't remember hearing it in any of the movies or spin-off series', and I miss it.
Oh, this particular set always chills my blood.
It's just so... beautifully perfect.
Mysterious and menacing, the sound designers really hit it out of the park with this one.
It's just so... beautifully perfect.
Mysterious and menacing, the sound designers really hit it out of the park with this one.
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It's very interesting how after TNG started that the franchise did away with all interior sounds of the ship in warp. The most recent instance where we hear the warp drive sound was from the Enterprise episode Regeneration.
Zombie_61
Master Member
I understand it to some degree. Even in the real world "soundproofing" has become something of an issue. Cars, for example, are much quieter than they were only 40 years ago (if you turn off all of the electronic nonsense, that is). But it was a simple sound cue that implied something was actually happening when the Captain ordered a change in speed. Now it's, "*beep* Okay Captain, I've pushed the button and we are now traveling at Ludicrous Speed." :rolleyes
Solos blaster
Sr Member
Or...or, maybe they're just traveling so fast the sounds of the ship just can't keep up?
*crickets*
I'll see myself out now.
*crickets*
I'll see myself out now.
I don't care what they say that movie holds up so damned well to this day, all of George Pal's movies tend to. As for star trek Scotty even said in Next Gen that in the original ship you could feel the deck plates moving to the point he could tell you the speed. After the decades between the shows it makes sense that things got quieter.
Galactican
Sr Member
The sounds of the Borg Cube in "Star Trek - TNG: Best Of Both Worlds", especially when it stops right before the nebula.
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