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

    • bluesheep@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      2 days ago

      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.

      • pishadoot@sh.itjust.works
        7·
        1 day ago

        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.

  • Mostly_Gristle@lemmy.world
    20·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    57·
    2 days ago

    Generic sound effects are one of the most commonly used public domain items, so it’s really common to hear the exact same sound effect used in a lot of different media.

    I regularly hear the "Sonic losing rings"effect used as a “transaction success” sound at POS systems, which, as a gamer, is confusing because hearing that sound in Sonic isn’t that of success.

        • TheFogan@programming.devEnglish
          7·
          2 days ago

          Much like the wilheim scream, it’s a popular stock sound effect. It’s in the intro of diddy kong racing, but it’s in all kinds of movies like Mulan, Monsters inc 2, Taken, the simpsons movie, Xmen 2, Gladiator. hot fuzz, the bourne identity, five nights at freddys, wrath of the titan, resident evil the final chapter just to name a few.

          actual stock sounds library it’s just called giggling 2 children https://soundideas.sourceaudio.com/track/11473800

          Diddy kong racing isn’t it’s origin, (it was used in Pocahontas 2 years prior to Diddy Kong racings release at a minimum), I think that’s where it became the most obvious though, because if you played Diddy Kong Racing, you heard that sound effect every time you started up the game, which makes recognizing it everywhere else really common.

          • 🔍🦘🛎@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            2 days ago

            Yup this BAFFLED me for years. I was thinking things like “Why the HELL is Hot Fuzz reusing the sound effect from Diddy Kong Racing!?”

    • LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
      2·
      2 days ago

      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

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
    12·
    2 days 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.

  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
    11·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • PunnyName@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • Fleur_@aussie.zone
    4·
    2 days ago

    I always recognise the wizard 101 crafting table bubbling sound whenever it’s used in other media. Stock sounds are very prolific

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
    2·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • Alsjemenou@lemy.nlNederlands
    3·
    2 days ago

    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.