If that’s the sound I think it is, it’s being used in the current ABC sitcom, The Neighbors.
I don’t know how to describe it, exactly, but there is a particular warning siren that gets used all over the fucking place and for some reason it pisses me off. I’m sure it’s based on a real alarm/siren too.
It always seems to show up whenever you have a bulkhead closing very slowly, some sort of doorway closing slowly, or big heavy things getting raised or lowered or something. Usually accompanied by those spinning yellow alarm lights.
Does anyone here have any idea what I’m talking about?
Don’t forget when Clint shoots everyone’s hat off after rescuing Tuco at the beginning of TG,TB&TU. (I assume it’s the same sound–I’ve only watched A Few Dollars More once, as it didn’t do much for me.)
Yes! Kind of a raspy waaaaaaaannngggk waaaaaaannngk? That one?
I thought it was called a klaxon, but I just looked that up and a klaxon is the sound a submarine makes when it dives.
To think, all these years I’ve been hearing the wrong thing in my head when a klaxon showed up in a book I’m reading…
Yup, I think we’re thinking of the same thing. waaaaaaaannngggk waaaaaaannngk seems to approximate the noise pretty well.
I swear, every time I hear that alarm I just want to mute the TV. I don’t know why it grates on me so much.
Yeah, the startled cat meow. Same one every single time.
Can’t someone just poke their cat with a fork and record a new one?
Dirty Harry’s pistol makes that same big pistol noise every time it’s fired.
Even in 2012, I sometimes notice the specific sound effects of Atari 2600 ‘Pac-Man’ being played to stand in for any generic video game whose screen is not seen.
That to me may be the ultimate in lazy Foley effects. Atari 2600 Pac-Man.
Tim
Door creak. It was a common sound effect in the videogame Daggerfall, and I hear it in movies and TV shows constantly. It drives me nuts.
There’s a scream that we first heard in the movie Wag the Dog and now hear so often that we wonder if hollywood is really so cheap that they can’t create any new screams.
The first thing I thought of. Specifically, on I Love Lucy when hilarity is about to ensue you can hear what sounds to me like Lucille Ball say “uh oh”.
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The first thing I thought of. Specifically, on I Love Lucy when hilarity is about to ensue you can hear what sounds to me like Lucille Ball say “uh oh”.
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That was Lucille Ball’s mother, DeDe.
Just thought of another horribly overused sound - the sssschhhingg! whenever a sword is drawn, swung or even simply brandished.
Camera sound, or better yet Professional Camera sound:* Ptweeeeerint*, that’s the film advance motor. Goddamnit, it’s a digital camera, it just goes ‘Click’ on the expensive ones, you’ll barely hear that.
The sound is overdone, but if you’re shooting an expensive dslr, you hear it. It’s no quieter than a film SLR, as you still have the mirror slap to contend with. You won’t hear film advance, of course.
There’s the sound of children laughing tink-plink-ly, shown any time there’s little kids or a playground. I can’t stand this one. One time I was watching something and there was an empty playground, no kids at all, and someone put their finger down somewhere and played that stupid weird little kids laugh. So tacky.
Actually don’t most mass-market digital cameras, from Prosumer down to the ones on cellphones, make a simulated camera click noise - so people around you know you are taking pictures (unless you go out of your way to disable the click noise, of which there are youtube videos how-tos, of course). Shutter click noise, not film advance noise (although my Canon A series does makes a bit of a hum after the fake click)
There’s a standard, stock baby coo that is often used in commercials. It starts low, raises, then lowers again - ah-Ah-ah. You’d recognize it if you heard it…
The “chirping” of a helicopter powering down…a sound produced only by the drive belts of the Bell-47.