Your favorite sound effects as a kid! (Update)

[Zeldar]

From a year ago in Cafe Society this OP (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=12362485&postcount=1) from Your favorite sound effects as a kid! (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=560333) said:



Your favorite sound effects as a kid!

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I remember regularly imitating these sound effects:

- peerown(say it real fast) - the sound of a bullet ricochet/other fast things

--- Usage - "The pit bull down the street got loose and I was like peerown."

- buuuud-unh - revving/changing gears on a motorcycle

--- all of the Six Million Dollar Man sound effects

- do do do... - the eye
- buh nuh nuh ... - jumping
- erh erh erh... - strength

What about you? (approximate spellings if possible)

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[fiddlesticks]

I'll take in this to mean the sound effects I used to go around the house making myself:
1. The Emergency Broadcast System Alert tone (the old one that was just one long tone)
2. The 6 Million Dollar Man/Bionic Woman "doing something superhuman" sound effect
3. Waving a wiffle bat around to make lightsaber-like sounds.

[Bearflag70]

fart

[Zeldar]

fart

Which one?! I prefer the cupped hand in the armpit. I love it when girls do that one.

[Bearflag70]

Which one?! I prefer the cupped hand in the armpit. I love it when girls do that one.

both palms pressed up against your mouth.

[TreacherousCretin]

fart

Wet or dry?

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[fiddlesticks]

Blowing on the crook of my elbow was my way.

[cmyk]

I did this ALL the time as a kid, and I still make sound effects every day, like an italian using hand gestures ('course, my blood runs thick with Sicilian blood).

All kinds of ballistic noised from bombs dropping, explosions, and pistol or rifle and machine gun fire (which I love to add subtlety to by adding a bit of echo).

Ricochet: "Peee-neeeaarrrrrrr!"

Lasers: "Sstt'tsssoooooof!"

Farts of all flavors, of course.

The doppler effect of cars or jets.... "nnnnneeeeeaarrrRRRRR-OOOOooooooooommmm"

Little modulated, electronic bleeps, clicks and ringing tones I do with my tongue and some falsetto vocalizations.

The oscillating wooshinging sound of a spinning weapon, like boomerang, or throwing star, or whatever.

And this harmonic thing I do, that seems to trip people out where I do a deep, monotone vocalization in the back of my throat, then create a buzzing sound with my lips at the same time. Sounds very synthetic.

I also get some complements on my "new born baby crying", especially in the work place. Having fathered 2 kids, I became quite familiar with that particular sound. Makes new mothers perk up... so fun!

[Shawn1767]

The power jacks on the Mach 5 "yonk, yonk, yonk, yonk..."

[Sam A. Robrin]

Anything by Don Martin:


http://mikelynchcartoons.blogspot.com/2007/12/don-martin-sound-effects.html

[Zeldar]

Anything by Don Martin:


http://mikelynchcartoons.blogspot.com/2007/12/don-martin-sound-effects.html

Very hard to top! Great link.

[FoieGrasIsEvil]

The sound of horse hooves galloping from The Holy Grail.

[Der Trihs]

The Martian Heat Ray and Green Disintegration Bolts (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oVUwG0qC9c) from the 1950's War of the Worlds.

[Casey1505]

I remember seeing a Star Wars documentary that the blaster sound effects were made by banging an open end wrench against the guy wire of a telephone line.

My dad soon wondered where all his wrenches were, and what is that noise?

[Cluricaun]

Favorite sound made by something else: The Current Affairs sound.

Favorite sound made by me: either making "woosh" sounds for my hands and feet like old kung fu movies or humming and whistling at the same time to make a weird laser sound.

[PapSett]

All types of animal noises, especially dogs and horses. I spent half of my childhood pretending to be a dog or horse.

[cmyk]

Star Wars has so many signature sounds, when I hear them to this day, I'm a kid again.

I also LOVE the sound of the Delorean in Back to the Future.

I've always loved the sound of the eagle's "screeeee!", and the cougar's roar "Krrrrooooooooowwww!"

Both sounds I find almost impossible to imitate (yet I still try).

Crickets are hard too, but I have a friend who's mastered it, it's uncanny (and I'm jealous).

[FoieGrasIsEvil]

Another sound effect I loved as a kid is the "boing" sound effect from a lot of cartoons (think of a spring unloading). Which of course I now associate with "popping a boner".

[Zeldar]

I've always loved the sound of the eagle's "screeeee!", and the cougar's roar "Krrrrooooooooowwww!"

Both sounds I find almost impossible to imitate (yet I still try).

The audio on Maria Bamford Performing the Pterodactyl Song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlILYDLA7bM) is poor, and there are better versions in some of her longer clips, but I couldn't help thinking of it and the commercial for some beverage where the guys sport big tattoos of eagles and this gal with a face like the Wicked Witch of the West cuts loose with an eagle screech that breaks windows.

[Zeldar]

... but I couldn't help thinking of it and the commercial for some beverage where the guys sport big tattoos of eagles and this gal with a face like the Wicked Witch of the West cuts loose with an eagle screech that breaks windows.

This is it: Like an Eagle: the Taste of Diet Mountain DEW Commercial (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf8zmzp2rKo)

[Proudest Monkey]

I liked the sound of cartoon character feet when they had to skedaddle. Like Fred Flintstone, although he was not much of a skedaddler. A bongo riff, I think it was.

Up north here, we have loons, and their dawn and dusk calls are unforgettable. I had a friend who could mimic it superbly. I never even tried, but . . .

. . . I can do a pretty good chicken.

[AtomicDog]

I could listen to the Jupiter 2 Liftoff (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGkrtZwr248) all day.

[Balance]

I liked two cupped-hands effects (where you cup your hands together in front of your mouth to form a sound chamber), storm winds and chopper. The wind was basically the classic "blizzard wind" effect from old movies and cartoons, and the chopper effect was like the sound of choppers in the distance on M*A*S*H.

[Jenaroph]

fart

Which one?! I prefer the cupped hand in the armpit. I love it when girls do that one.

both palms pressed up against your mouth.

Oh yeah. Still a classic. Just a few years ago I managed to make a 10 year old boy fall off his chair laughing at an epic, 30-second long flappy wet fart noise this way. I am both proud and ashamed.

As a kid I always liked laser gun noises PYEW PYEW PYEW! and the particular mess of notes played in a cartoon when a piano fell on someone.

[fiddlesticks]

This toy "laser" gun was one of my favorite non-Lego Christmas presents.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk9FE5THjeI

Not me in the video. Mine died around 1990. No volume control...I'm sure my parents hated it (they didn't give it to me)... Comments for the video are a hoot...

[enomaj]

Of course the Transformer sound effect was mentioned in the old thread. But how about the Transformer Scratch (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhS6OHdYf60&NR=1&feature=fvwp)

[Nunzio Tavulari]

I was partial to, what I think was taffy, in the old Our gang episode.

Weeet.....Waaaaaaaaoh.

[BigT]

I was a sound effect machine as a kid, but my favorite sound effect was the simple explosion, done completely with the mouth.

I also did some crappy beatboxing that I still do to this day. It sound great inside my head, and I thought I was getting good. But now that I have recordings of myself, I know how crappy it sounds. It's the same phenomenon as when you think a recording doesn't sound a thing like you, but everyone else says it does. It affects any sound made in the mouth.

[voltaire]

Goofy falling off a cliff (http://hutchinsonleader.com/audio-clips/infamous-goofy-holler-6634) - cracks me up every time!