myronaiii

Being Australian, this used to make me annoyed as I could never understand why they would be scared of those noises. To me it was comforting :)

FunkyJ

cde

And seconding the Photon Torpedoes and Phasers from Star Trek TNG.

And the Stargate Even Horizon Blast/Woosh.

And the sound those little robots from Farscape make.

And every single sound and voice effect from Starcraft. FOR AUIR!

cde

There was a grouping of about 15 that were included with the ST: Generations OST, but I've had major need for some of the sounds from DS9 and Voyager, and have never been able to find a qualified source.

For example, I really liked the Voyager Internal Comm Hail sfx, and when I got my iPhone, I hacked it to put my own system sounds on it. For the life of me, I couldn't find ONE clean sample of that sound effect. No cd's were released of those series' SFX, and the two places on line that I could find "LCARS Sounds" (lcarscom.net, and some other ukranian site) didn't include it in their SFX packages. A damn shame.

What was even more angering: I was listening to the radio at work after I gave up what seemed like a futile quest, and some podunk radio commercial was using Star Trek SFX and had the Comm Hail in the commercial. Pissed me off somethin' fierce. So I know they're out there for corporate consumption (probably as royalty free loops for sound design studios), but not for people who are fans. Unfortunate.

~JYH

PS: please excuse the uber geekiness of this post, I know that this type of stuff isn't exactly frowned upon here as most of us are geeks as well, but when considering things like this, it sometimes crosses a line from fan to "WTF".

JYHASH

Nebbish

(It always bothered me that they kept calling them UFOs, even though they knew exactly what the spacecraft were...)

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Hes-Dead-Jim

Despite the nacelles, NCC-1701's just a tall ship with a lot of stars to steer her by.

Evil Tortie's Mom

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Shows how Peter Howell tweaks params on a synth to achieve the familiar signature sounds.

Torley

E0157H7

KingBlister

Moeskido

MrWashy

Awesome post!

I'll throw in my vote for Twiki and his bidibidi, although it is character based.

The ultimate sound effects team would be Ben Burtt and Mel Blanc... Not to take anything away from the fine Foley artists out there. If only marvin the Martian had better sound effects his Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator would have successfully destroyed Earth!

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MrWashy

metalkate

Ben Burtt is a true genius. He made me listen to the world a different way.

I just want to point out that the TARDIS noise is made by scraping a door key over the strings of a piano, which sound was then manipulated via tape distortion. Neato!

SeeingI

You mean, uh, Vasquez and Drake?

BSAKat

twreckx

eviladrian

munkles

BeFrugalNotCheap

Some other noises that I would have included:

* the power sounds of the different animal members of The Herculoids: Gloop, Gleep, Igoo, Zok and Tundro;
* the sound of Voltron forming the Blazing Sword;
* one word: SNIKT;
* the noise which accompanied the yells of "Power EXTREME" on Centurions;
* the effect when Sam would leap out and in on Quantum Leap;
* another word: blipverts.

As usual, I could keep going, but I have to sleep sometime.

LicenseFarm

Doug Nelson

Mister Adequate

Tim Faulkner

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Airport_Whiskey

POWER OF ...a bucket of water?

ithidet

[just pulled it off a website, so not sure how accurate, but it seems credible]

aspiringexpatriate

MonkeyT

James7344

Transporter Beam: Damn. It is long. I could have walked there faster.

James Earl Jones, Tie Fighters, the Cylon Eye, Bionic Man - it's amazing how many memories rush back with those.

But the TARDIS has to be my favorite. The way the sound evokes both some wonderful unimaginable SF adventure about to happen and an old heap whose engine doesn't quite want to turn over. It completely captures a dichotomy that makes Doctor Who, as a whole, what it is.

92BuickLeSabre

friar-zero

And that one podracer's engines from Ep 1 that went Waanh... waanh... waanh...

Twiki's bidibidis

Gleep and Gloop glooping and gleeping (?)... Hell, all the Herculoids... Tundro plopping pellets from his horns, etc...

Tim Faulkner

The opening of the stargate, the opening of the iris, the button activation sounds on the DHD, the electric discharge of a zat'niqita, and the clatter and clank of a Replicator's steps.

The sound of Mal's pistol firing (Firefly).

The sounds of the Rifles, AutoTurrets, and the huge plasma assisted autoguns that Mendez and Perez carried in Aliens.

The Predator's shoulder cannon.

The birds on Endor (Return of the Jedi).

I'll also second those awesome depth charges that Jango Fett used in Episode 2. I love that twang noise they make.

Chiper

dead_red_eyes

tpete

I have awesome respects for great sound designers, including Burtt - who is legendarily resourceful.

While it's more of "music" than a strict SFX, I like the melody from Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which was also sampled to great effect in Enigma's first album.

Buck Rogers' Twiki sputtering "BEDEBEDEBEDEE" gets me every time, too. :)

Torley

Particular favorites were the Yamato's shock cannons, the laser pistols, the Gamilon ship cannons (that sound always reminded me of snakes, for some reason) and of course, all those explosions.

Rus

Kevin Kelly

Someone brilliant on the Net while TNG was airing coined the term "tweedlesquerge" for the communicator noise. We have ever called it so.

Evil Tortie's Mom

My nephew laughed so hard when I popped my head out and said it looked like I smelled somebody baking cookies.

BlindKarma

Ben Burtt is my personal hero.

Damonicus

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