A pillow fort is the probably the best DIY sound booth that you can make. You can opt out by clicking the configure button below. – Ryan Vincent Jaeger. Rotten fruit is always good for flesh squishes. – Mark Estdale, Corn starch – for live shows I don’t even open the bag and wrap it in duct tape. However, their goopy interior makes them ideal for making certain sound … – Mark Estdale, Up-pitched kittens. Actual car crashes sound lots different than swinging & smashing cars with hammers & such, because of the mass involved. An Arduino, a Raspberry Pi, and a Beaglebone can all be set up to play sound clips. Filter anything below 60Hz, add an insane amount of mid frequency. Record up to two minutes of audio, then hook up your trigger. • Adjust EQ as you see fit. – Mark Estdale, Flour – great for walking/driving on snow. – Martin Severn, Flour, great for walking/driving on snow. Something subliminal where people get edgy, but they can’t put a finger on why… – Ben Burtt, For seismic sounds: Slowed down metal creaks, ice cracking slowed down. Filter the recordings, pitch them up so they lose their engine kinda feel and add some cool doppler effects to it (pitch bending and volume ramping it). For more realistic sound the actual squeal should be just like a background sound to the overall effect (less is more) – add EQ and a little bit of reverb and voila, tire screech. – Paul Arnold, Slide a straw up or down in a McDonald’s large drink plastic lid. You can throw it together in minutes and take it down just as fast. – Alexey Menshikov, Chris Sweetman told me a good technique for getting a really effective bone breaking noise. In some effects I have also used Apple GarageBand application, that comes free with every Mac computer. It works best if the rubbing surfaces are smooth and held tightly together. – Gustaf Grefberg, A good Foley artist I worked with had a good technique for achieving the sound of someone ripping a small alien’s body (a monkey like voodoo creature) in half- eww!. Maybe just dropping a wrecking ball on it might do the trick, if you can talk the junkyard guy into it! If you need a car engine sound, buzz into a brass mouthpiece – (tuba/baritone) or bassoon reeds – and pitch shift it down. Even though it’s a traffic jam, see if the scene allows you to make the horns move in menacing ways. The result can be pitch shifted down to increase the perceived size of the door. This page contains a number of ideas on how to create various sound effects, and we hope you find it inspiring. And voilá! You’ll find a pack of New Year’s Eve sound effects here. I have worked in a variety of industries from hydraulic aerial lifts to aircraft tooling. I’m plagued with perfect pitch and often find myself analyzing this kind of thing while sitting in traffic. This is sfxr. Fingers in the water stream or adjusting the flow can add nice movement to the sound. Add a gate to the extra floor tile sound so it increases and decreases in volume every half beat (or quicker whichever suits the size of the vehicle best). :D I made it on a DX100 using a squarish wave. You can change the sound by adjusting the eye bolt. You can get different sounds by using different fabrics, by stretching the fabric, by changing the speed of the wheel or by using a bike tire with different treads. There are several ways to acquire sound effects for your videos. (The window amplifies the effect nicely). 6. scratch up nylon material and record it close mic’d. You will have to try to avoid making clicking sounds with your mouth. You’ll notice that depending on how you pressure the pen, the roar becomes more severe, more intense. Then when you’re back home or in your studio environment, put on a pair of food safety gloves (if you intend to eat this stuff afterwards), and try recording different gestures, even pouring them into an absorbent bowl/container, shuffling them around with your hands. Bfxr is an elaboration of the glorious Sfxr, the program of choice for many people looking to make sound effects for computer games. Discover thousands of handpicked audio tracks for every genre. – Clark Crawford, Get recording some lighter motorcycles and mopeds as they drive by. They are useful when playing live or as studio tools while recording or mixing music. A bunch of keys for chainmail movement. – Paul Arnold, Twist a pencil between the keys on a standard PC keyboard (slowly) for a “Rope with Heavy weight swinging” effect. This channel of Syrinscape is triggered from inside of Fantasy Grounds using the Dulux-OZ DOE: Sound Extension. One example is a "creak box." Or maybe you would like to have a scary noise play whenever someone walks up to your house on Halloween. Find a fan with extra-quiet motor. There are far more sound effects tricks than can be included in this project. – Eric Dillen, If you break up the gray powdery stuff found on sparklers into a fine powder, you can lay them in a line and set it off like a fuse – and it sounds exactly like one too. You could cover the walls in open cell foam in an attempt to make the room quieter. For unique and extreme glitch elements, import non-audio files such as bitmaps and executables into an audio editor as ‘raw data’. For the impact, take a hatchet or sharp knife and strike into several objects: A fruit (I used an apple), a piece of wood (Hitting a real tree or a stump is better, but you may have to deal with background noise), and concrete (to get a metallic ring). Most people don't have access to a professional recording studio, so you are probably going to want to put something together in your house. New ones get stuck in the sliding process. :-). Bfxr has moved in the direction of increased complexity and range of expression. Whip it good. cornstarch for snow etc. Chicken bones in a polystyrene cup, break and snap them together. These cookies do not store any personal information. – Tim Pryor, Chalk squeak on a blackboard. To begin recording a sequence, press the "REC" button. Get ample bags of different snacks/grains — there is a huge variety of texture to be found. Use your imagination. To give you a few more useful tips, I have included links to some other web pages that list more classic sound effects. It also works well for cracks propagating through ice or glass. A broomstick whacked really hard and flat onto a couch or mattress makes a great beefing-up component for a body hit. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. Add sounds to buttons to make them more interactive, and make sounds fade in and out for a more polished sound track. – Alex Barnhart, 1/2 speed toilet flushing with plate reverb. – Martin Severn, A very basic approach to a dragon roar would be to experiment with a pitched-down human scream (add treble when pitch-shifting), combined with roars from animals such as walruses, lions etc (you can experiment with the pitch on these ones as well). – Scott Koué, Car horns are normally tuned to minor and major 3rds as opposed to 5ths. The defining one is what sounds up front and tells the listener what the sound is, especially if combined with picture. Mix in some subtle high frequencies that descend in pitch rapidly at the start of the attack part of the sample. – David Filskov, For the sound of an Arrow Flyby or Meteor Trail, simply hold some tight plastic using grips (not hands) over a sink of water and set fire to the plastic – let the plastic melt and the drips sound very interesting. This sound can be used as an element in certain kinds of monster vocalizations, alien pod embryo expulsions, etc. Whenever the trigger is activated, the PicoBoo will play your sound effect. Myinstants is where you discover and create instant sound buttons. If you’re looking for some real recordings, here’s a library of car horn sound effects. Hum, sing, mimic a car into the drinking opening. For a Lamborghini sweetener sound effect, take a half liter empty beer can. Out comes wind in the form of a modulating white/pink noise. Don’t be afraid to try playing with inorganic things too, like old hinges, dragging metal, hydraulic pumps/pistons, old engines, etc. – Jay Semerad. – Peter Roof, For the initial gun sound I actually used a real gun pulled out of a plastic holster fairly quickly. The metal acts as a resonator which gives it a louder, more metallic quality (I’m sure that other materials could be used as well). Get a stick of bamboo or other light wood and move it quickly to and fro in front of the mic.