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.
I could listen to the Jupiter 2 Liftoff all day.
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 MAS*H.
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.
This toy “laser” gun was one of my favorite non-Lego Christmas presents.
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…
Of course the Transformer sound effect was mentioned in the old thread. But how about the Transformer Scratch
I was partial to, what I think was taffy, in the old Our gang episode.
Weeet…Waaaaaaaaoh.
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.
Goofy falling off a cliff - cracks me up every time!