2mo ago

Is it everywhere?

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

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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.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8CArkcAuLE
  (nickname comes from it's presence in the diddy kong racing start... but it's in so many movies and shows once you are keyed in to listen for it).
  
  thanks for the user name :)
  
  Holy shit, that's where it's from‽
- 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
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
  
  The Doom doors are the ones that get me.
  
  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
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.
- It might be the same one in the original Sim City. Definitely seared into my brain, and I hear it in shows, too
  
  Stupid video, but, my sound is right at the beginning.
  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yKoKoSMv3Xo&t=64s&pp=2AFAkAIB
- "seven-eight-two-eight-five"
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 always recognise the wizard 101 crafting table bubbling sound whenever it's used in other media. Stock sounds are very prolific
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.
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
I can hear every sound referenced in this thread in my head.
I heard the "failed dice roll" effect from Baldur's Gate 3 in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Unfortunately I can't exactly remember where. I think something with Verso.
Examples?

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