Your Most and Least Favorite Sound-Effects

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What has been your favorite sound effect you like hearing? And the one you dread to hear once more? I am truly found of the "CLANG" sound. It just rings a tune to me. I, however, am getting sick of the penny whistle sounds and most sounds used by Hanna-Barbera and Anime.
 
I love just about all the sound effects for the Hanna/Barbara theatrical era of Tom and Jerry, especially the shotgun "crack", the whisker pull "poink" and the tom tom thud whenever someone falls.
 
It's used mostly in live-action, but it's used quite often in cartoons, so it fits: the Wilhelm Scream.

Anyone who's tired of the Wilhelm Scream is tired of life.
 
I don't know the names of any of them... and it's hard to describe them using letters to represent sounds... (try spelling a whistle without using the term whistle and i get ooooooooooooooo)

I guess i like some and dislike others but really i'm indifferent to them as they are such cosmetic and unimportant elements imo
 
I guess also adding some of the sound effects from MGM cartoons, most notibly, the bell ringing.

I also like how Ed, Edd, 'n' Eddy and SpongeBob SquarePants add random sound effects from nowhere in the situation.
 
I pretty much liked the majority of HB sound effects, since they were used in a lot of series. Of particular note would be the sound effect that's first heard when Jet Screamer makes his spin entry on The Jetsons. This would be later used whenever Winsome Witch used her magic (remember her catch phrase Ippity-Pippity-POW!!!), among other series. That last time it was used was for one of HB's final logos, the rectangle that had stars from several series including Flintstones, Jetsons, Yogi Bear, Huck Hound, El Kabong, and Scooby-Doo dashing all over the screen. The sound effect added a couple of bings, bangs, and boinks at about the point it would freeze on Fred Flintstone.

My least favorite sound effect was in the original Spider-Man series in the late 1960's when that annoying zip noise was made whenever he swung across the screen. It was omitted in season 1, but for the last 3, it was an unnecessary addition, after the second animation studio practically took away other good aspects of the superior first season.
 
I've always liked the old Hanna-Barbera sound effects best, along with several of the classic WB sound effects. The sound effects on "Rocky and Bullwinkle" are also fun too. I also like the old Castle Thunder sound effect:
http://www.hollywoodlostandfound.net/sound/castlethunder.html
http://beta.dailymotion.com/user/Wiley208/video/xa2hil_castle-thunder-in-modern-animation_shortfilms

It's too bad the most recent direct-to-video Scooby-Doo movies no longer use it, instead opting for newly-recorded thunderclaps recorded specially for the films (I have the feeling they send the sound editors to where I live, they always sound just like the thunderstorms I get every summer.)

My least favorite sound effects are probably the ones used on "What's New, Scooby-Doo" (which rarely used the old H-B sound effects), especially the way they used the WB sound effects instead and their own awful new thunder sounds. I also dislike some of the old WB sound effects that kept being overused especially outside WB (mainly their car-skid and their wind-whistle spinning noise).
 
I love the old "robot breaking down" sound from some older cartoons. If want to know which one I'm talking about, try the episode of Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers about the robot bulldogs. One of them gets heavily damaged and starts making those kinds of noises for the rest of the episode.

I'm also fond of the classic "giant robot moves its arm" sound from the older Gundam series. It was a very distinctive noise, and you used to here it quite often, though sadly it seems long retired.

For least favorite, I'd say a good portion of the weaker stock laser sounds. Nothing more annoying to me than to see a character pull out a BFG or let loose More Dakka and hear something that sounds like a castrated squirt gun.
 
I'm not sure whether this is my favorite or least favorite, but...

The sound effects used in the "Tom & Jerry" cartoons by Gene Deitch. Actually, just about any cartoons Deitch made in Prague used these sound effects (even in his "Popeye" and "Krazy Kat" cartoons).

If you've seen these cartoons, you know what I'm talking about.

I guess they're an industry standard in Czech. I've heard them used in other cartoons that came out of that country.
 
I'm surprised I'm the first person to mention the Trombone Gobble - that Warner Bros. sound effect usually heard when a character shakes their head (I guess the closest thing to an onomatopoeia for it would be "yoggedy-yoggedy-yoggedy"). A few notable occurrences of it in the Looney Tunes include Bugs Bunny shaking his head after being clocked by Baby Face Finster in "Baby Buggy Bunny"; Claude Cat twiddling his lips after being yanked through the house on a rope in "Mouse Wreckers"; Bugs playing with Beaky Buzzard's Adam's Apple in "Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid"; etc.

After 1964, when the Warner Bros. sound library became open to other studios, it started to show up in a lot of other places - it was used in a lot of "Peanuts" specials whenever Charlie Brown ran to kick the football, I know "Rocko's Modern Life" used it a lot, and it even appears in Disney features like Aladdin and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
 
Anything by Treg Brown. His sound effects made WB's cartoons stand out from other studios of the era. I especially like that noise when a character goes crashing into something, and we hear lots of clanging of what sounds like pots and pans, followed by a few lighter clangs to finish it off. Those last few clangs are what make the sound effect funny, even with how much it was reused.

Outside of classic cartoons, I love the "smack" noise used in Tiny Toons, like when someone is hit by a mallet or slapped. Certainly sounds appropriately hard-hitting.

Also, from Ren and Stimpy, the vintage "ding!" sound effect when a still shot of an item appears. I love it. Does that sound have a name, by chance?
I'll do ya one better: Anyone who's tired of the Howie Scream is tired of life.
 
Same here. I love that sound effect.



You mean that loud "WHAM" sound effect? I liked that noise too, until they started using it all the time in Animaniacs. Watch "Animaniacs Suite" sometime to get a clue as to just how often they used this sound effect.
 
I don't know, but I DO know that "ting!" sound originated from Filmation back in the 1970s. I know John K. used to work for Filmation, so I assume he or one of the show's film/sound editors took a copy of Filmation's sound effects library with them. Much of the other Filmation sound FX were the same ones that Hanna-Barbera used, which "Ren & Stimpy" frequently utilized. On the later stuff like "Ren & Stimpy Adult Party Cartoon," they occasionally would use the ting, but also frequently used the Warner Bros. and Hanna-Barbera Sound FX libraries from Sound Ideas, both of which I own and love to use in my video productions:
http://www.sound-ideas.com/wb.html
http://www.sound-ideas.com/hb.html
 
I love the Trombone Gobble. :D It was even imitated in an episode of MST3K, "The Skydivers", when a guy is getting throttled during a fight, and Mike starts doing the "uggida-uggida-uggida...UH!"
 
Ah yes, imitations of the trombone gobble appear on MST3K all the time, usually from Kevin Murphy as Tom Servo (see "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians", "Teenagers from Outer Space", "The Incredibly Strange Creatures...", etc.).
 
Another one I enjoy is the "cat fight" sound effect used in a lot of Looney Tunes, typically when there's a fight cloud and a feline involved. A good place to hear it is in "The Honeymousers" (1956), though it's in quite a few '50s shorts. Heh, wow, you really don't like Animaniacs anymore, do you? :sweat:
 
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