Do you know why these sounds persist? There are so many sound libraries floating around and all the sound folks I know jump at the chance to do some foley, so I have to imagine it’s a conscious choice to do ‘classic rusty door open’?
is that her voice actor?
also my least favourite stock sound effect is swish-boom
She’s rendered a lot less Emma Watsonnish but yep, there she be.
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other sound effects i hear all the time:
the pottery breaking sound (which is used to comedic effect in Wet Hot American Summer)
this whooshing sound that i first noticed as the fireball sound in the Magic Carpet PC game
wilhelm scream, etc
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I always assumed it was just cost-cutting. A lot of the very recognizable sounds are royalty free (the doom door sound is distracting because its a royalty free sound thats permanently associated with doom)
Maybe, I’ve never had to purchase a sound library myself (only plundering assets from school/company/free libraries). Obviously today you can buy sounds a la carte; CDs go for – a quick look – $500-$5k? That’s enough that a sound designer wouldn’t be splurging all over the place.
But then, in my amateur use, I always mix a few sounds together to disguise the origin just because I prefer it that way
every 7-10 months, this exchange pops up in my head
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sting-y
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im going to get youuuu guy kazama
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I think it’s time constraints, budget constraints not allowing the artist to put the effort out in good consciousness, or in some cases honest to goodness l a z i n e s s. These older libraries get passed around a lot I believe, and I reckon a lot of people don’t believe that they’re deliberately referencing something when they happen upon a file that seems to perfectly suit their needs, when it turns out they’ve absorbed that expression through osmosis from years of watching tv. I wonder if everyone’s pattern recognition is actually that good!
I was talking to a friend of mine who did field recording for Titanic and literally had her own field recordings turned into back over to her for an unrelated project (unbeknownst to the person who was turning them over, who did not realize she was the original recordist) with just a hint of reverb added on top. I suspect this irony is commonplace because of the nature of the medium.
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I wonder if there’s a platonic filename for how people search for sounds that causes these to rise unbidden every time
sosumi.wav
I think the definition of amateur use is actually NOT adjusting pitch/frequency/spatial relationships as well as blending. In my book there’s nothing wrong with getting as much mileage as you can out of libraries.
There’s a Sound Ideas track that I laugh hysterically at every time I stumble on it because it has 80 percent of all the computer sfx that you hear in the original Dues Ex completely unmodified (keypad, hacking, etc)
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Over the years in company of Fellow Gamers, something unusual happens…
Alucard:
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