Submitted 4 hours ago by LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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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
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.
Generic sound effects are one of the most commonly used public domain items, so it’s really common to hear the exact same sound in a lot of different media.
“transaction success” sound at POS systems, which, as a gamer, is confusing because hearing that sound in Sonic isn’t that of success.
But it sure is a perfect sound for what is happening, you just lost your rings, you broke.
99 cent stores had the ICQ “uh oh!” when a product didn’t ring up. That was awesome!
It really fucks with my head when I hear sonic rings come from a gas station cash register…
I was at a gas station while traveling when I first heard the Sonic sound. I was looking around everywhere trying to figure out where it was coming from and if I had possibly gone insane.
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
This is like a running joke they do. They reuse the sounds on purpose. The Wilhelm Scream is everywhere when you know how to listen for it.
If I am ever plummeting to my death, I hope I have the presence of mind to do a Wilhelm scream.
Good luck, it’s a hard one to imitate on the fly. I still can’t hit that high note.
Also the diddy laugh will haunt you endlessly once you recognize it.
Ok, sure I’ll give Rick and Morty… some pass, because sure a funny joke. But lame ga kill having… umm Star Wars laser blasts? Theres no laser guns there.
Hah and yeah the Wilhelmi scream. :p legendary
Some sounds just become the thing they are supposed to represent. They aren’t used because there are no more sounds to be made. Two reasons.
First. Directors won’t use a schnauzer as a guard dog in a movie, because they don’t portrait the intention of a guard dog on screen. For exactly the same reason you can’t use a gong as a laser sound, it doesn’t portrait a laser.
Second. People have collected sounds and made them available. There are stock sounds, just like there are stock pictures.
And so, certain sounds have become used for certain things. And the more they are used the more iconic they become. The Wilhelm scream, red tailed hawk, and many more.
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.
It might be the same one in the original Sim City. Definitely seared into my brain, and I hear it in shows, too
"seven-eight-two-eight-five"
Examples?
Blackmist@feddit.uk 24 minutes ago
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.