Ok, so watching Rick and Morty I heard the… idk windows run! Sound; like the error one. And in Alamo Ga Kill, I heard the same laser blasts used well… at least in empire strikes back. Like… are there new sounds? Poor foleys
Wait till you learn about the Wilhelm scream…
God i hate that one. Takes all the emersion out of a scene. I don’t really mind it in a comedy or something but when it’s in a serious movie I really don’t get why you would include it.
My theory at this point is that it’s the equivalent of an audio editing meme. I think they just want to see how often they can get it into a final cut, for the lulz.
Wilhelm scream
The Chefs kiss for me.
There are huge sound effects libraries that have been continuously built up and added to since sound in movies became a thing. Foley artists dip into them constantly. If you watch enough old movies you can pick out some almost 100-year-old foley effects that still get used in modern tv and movies. A lot of the time foley artists will toss them in as a joke or reference that mostly only other foley artists are going to catch.
But yeah there are a lot of foley effects that get used a ton. I hear the exact door opening/closing sound from the old AOL instant messenger used in a movie or tv show at least a couple times a year. There’s also a specific cat noise that gets used constantly which people who played Postal 2 back in the day will recognize instantly.
Wilhelm scream and the bear/pig noises that I first recognized in Warcraft (RTS) are in absolutely EVERYTHING
There’s this cops radio chatter I heard in hyper studio as a kid that’s in every police scene. Can’t make out what it says but it has the number 1 28 9 in it
“Plain and sudway 1 28” at least that’s what it sounds like to me. I recognise it from SimCity and movies and TV.
You’re right it was sim city! Every time you built a police station! That’s why it burned into my memory!
My text ringtone is Slick Ricco 01 lmao.
This isn’t new. They used to sell vinyl records full of sounds that people could use in their productions, and now it’s audio files.
Chances are those laser blasts from Empire Strikes Back were just Laser Sound #12 from BBC Sci-fi Sound Effects Vol 3.
This is a deep cut, but I had Spider Man cartoon maker on CDROM back in the 90s. The police always played the same radio chatter on repeat, so it was ingrained in my brain. I hear it every now and then in the background of police TV shows.
I can hear every sound referenced in this thread in my head.
When I was in college for TV and radio, one of my editing classes had a sound bank of effects we could use for various projects. The amount of SFX that I had heard before in that bank were astounding! Easily more than half of StarCraft 1 SFX were stock SFX.
Also that “sheep” scream that went viral back in the day? It’s a stock goat scream: https://youtu.be/OZvbBDnzQqA.
I recently watched Nimona (2023), and in the part where they’re fleeing in the car and it breaks down, I recognized a familiar sound effect right away
Examples?
