From a year ago in Cafe Society this OP from Your favorite sound effects as a kid! said:
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I’ll take in this to mean the sound effects I used to go around the house making myself:
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.
Wet or dry?
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Blowing on the crook of my elbow was my way.
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!
The power jacks on the Mach 5 “yonk, yonk, yonk, yonk…”
Anything by Don Martin:
Very hard to top! Great link.
The sound of horse hooves galloping from The Holy Grail.
The Martian Heat Ray and Green Disintegration Bolts from the 1950’s War of the Worlds.
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?
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.
All types of animal noises, especially dogs and horses. I spent half of my childhood pretending to be a dog or horse.
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).
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”.
The audio on Maria Bamford Performing the Pterodactyl Song 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.