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[AMUSIX]

There;s a stock door knob sound that I can't stand that gets used in EVERYTHING. I'll try to find it, but searching for door knob sound effects is strange.

 

[fallengorn]

Here is the link for you http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akDWOUTev7o#t=1837

I'm assuming it's this one from the vid (more precise time): http://youtu.be/akDWOUTev7o?t=30m39s

I fucking hate that sound. It only exists to try and enhance tense/dramatic moments.

A friend who used to do video editing told me years ago that it's just a small group of people who end up editing the bulk of reality shows. Probably the same with sound and everything else. The resulting reality show "style" is maddening.

 

[Gintoki313]

Speaking of over used sound effects. What's the sound effect in this video at 1:39? Just wondering because I hear this scream everywhere. Is it the Wilheim scream but just low?

 

[alr1ght]

Speaking of over used sound effects. What's the sound effect in this video at 1:39? Just wondering because I hear this scream everywhere. Is it the Wilheim scream but just low?

wait I'm wrong it's the Youraagh!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf6_hok4-lo

 

[Jeff Albertson]

That squeaky/rusty door opening. You know the one. Drives me crazy every time I hear it.

http://www.hark.com/clips/glnvyhrndp-metaldoor

Hate it hate it hate it

I just think of resident evil everytime I hear it and its so jarring

Edit now I'm not sure if this is the same one I think the one I'm thinking of is creakier

 

[AMUSIX]

Speaking of over used sound effects. What's the sound effect in this video at 1:39? Just wondering because I hear this scream everywhere. Is it the Wilheim scream but just low?

Not the Wilhelm, but don't know if it has a name. For some reason, I always associated it with a tie-fighter flyby....

 

[SephCast]

Not the Wilhelm, but don't know if it has a name. For some reason, I always associated it with a tie-fighter flyby....

It's sometimes known as the Howie scream.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howie_scream

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf6_hok4-lo

 

[farisr]

THIS is probably one of the most overused sound sample ever (at least movie-wise).

Yes, I know, already mentioned in the thread a bunch of times. Just posted one of my favorite times it's been used.

 

[ClivePwned]

Sound Ideas Series 6000

 

[Metalmarc]

Lol at people who read the title and not the actual post

You all wouldve just failed an application for not reading it carefully

 

[Morts]

No idea about the OP, but I notice this kind of thing all the time. You know that "dispatcher chatter" sound when you place a police station in SimCity 3000? I swear it's in every TV show featuring a crime scene.

"Opening a metal door in Resident Evil 4" is another one that I hear all the time in movies and TV.

 

[Anth0ny]

This one isn't *overused* but I remember it from playing the hell out of Diddy Kong Racing and I hear it every once in a while in TV

(Children screaming when Rareware logo appears)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hln2z7MCsUQ

I hear this ALL the time and always think of Diddy Kong Racing.

 

[MMaRsu]

There is a clip of radio chatter that is used in like every cop show.

Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dklA4-ACN4k#t=00m25s

YUP. This one man.. I heard it in SWAT2 I believe the PC game, since that I've heard that clip countless times..

 

[Jado]

I found threads on audio-related forums that point to the sound effect in the OP being a cymbal, waterphone, or drying rack played with a bow.

Samples:
Cymbal (go to 0:52 and 1:57 for the closest sounds)

Yup, all the time on a bunch of Food Network reality TV shows.

 

[Intheflorsh]

Two examples in this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-EDgkZYmfE

 

[gryz]

hahah I was already thinking of that sound when I clicked on this thread.

 

[sixteen-bit]

It's all over the Metal Slug games.

Pretty hilarious in them too.

Apparently Glacius has a Wilhem Scream when you knock him out in Killer Instinct.

 

[Trouble]

Seems like nobody read the OP.

Why would you expect otherwise?

 

[Fusebox]

It seems like a lot of people on TV have the same alarm clock sound.

 

[Strike]

Wilhelm Scream.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_scream

Hear it in movies, tv, etc.

Yup. Once I started noticing it, I couldn't stop.

 

[Schrade]

That stock cat sound whenever something falls offscreen. You know the one.

I. Fucking. Hate. That. Shit.

STOP USING FAKE CAT SHRIEKS AND MEOWS.

So annoying.

I hate the old-time bullet ricochet sounds, too. Those were in almost every movie that involved a gun and sounded so lame.

 

[terrisus]

Canned Laughter is absolutely horrible, and should never be used.

 

[Tookay]

Goddamn do I hate that sound, OP.

Overused and super manipulative.

 

[Rhomega Beta]

The howling winter wind

 

[DiipuSurotu]

There's a distinctive metal percussion that can be heard in many tracks that want to give off mechanical, otherworld vibes... Uhh, it's hard to explain actually but anyway it can be heard in Chrono Cross and Myst III: Exile for instance, but also many TV shows:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFT6Ox4Wiyc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQnEpunUDxs

 

[Stairouais]

Goldeneye doors sfx

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=9K9ccetBFLc#t=77

 

[geebee]

That and youraagh! Those just stuck out too much because they're in everything. Youraagh was in Crash Bandicoot 2 where one enemy made that sound everytime you killed him.

Reading this during work.. I could practically hear it. hahaha

Fox has got to be the worst offender when it comes to overusing sound effects. I swear the sound effects I heard in World Wildest Police Videos over a decade ago are being used today in those annoying Gordon Ramsay shows...

 

[MikeDown]

Anyone know the name of this sound effect? It plays around the nine second mark, it has really been bugging me cause I hear it quite often but I search for it and there doesn't seem to be any info.

 

[G0523]

Canned Laughter is absolutely horrible, and should never be used.

I know exactly what you mean.

 

[DeaconKnowledge]

Anyone know the name of this sound effect? It plays around the nine second mark, it has really been bugging me cause I hear it quite often but I search for it and there doesn't seem to be any info.

Don't know what it's called but it's clearly a pig's squeal slowed down listening to it.

 

[Cartman86]

It's this overplayed fireball sound that I cannot stand.

http://www.hark.com/clips/xkywggxwrf-fireball

Winner for me. Such a terrible sound.

 

[H2Yo]

I found threads on audio-related forums that point to the sound effect in the OP being a cymbal, waterphone, or drying rack played with a bow.

Samples:
Cymbal (go to 0:52 and 1:57 for the closest sounds)
Waterphone
Drying Rack

They also mentioned Spectrasonics Omnisphere, which is widely used in Hollywood and coincidentally has several drying rack-related sounds.

Yeah these noises are very similar. I think you're on the right track. For a sound effect that has been used so often, you'd think there would be a stock name for the .wav

OMG ink master uses that like 12 times an episode

Very much so hahaha.

Bar Rescue uses it like every five minutes.

Yep!

 

[BobDylan]

as someone who works on designing sound for film I constantly am paying attention to this. the thing ive noticed the most is fake burnouts and break squeals on cars. that shit just doesnt happen

 

[BolognaSoup]

It's this overplayed fireball sound that I cannot stand.

http://www.hark.com/clips/xkywggxwrf-fireball

Yes I hear this everywhere and roll my eyes everytime. It always reminds me of a sound from Doom.

 

[eternaLightness]

There's a certain "baby crying" sound I often hear in everything from cartoons to movies and tv shows. I can't find the exact one but I know it's the same when I hear it.

 

[Alcotholic]

That squeaky/rusty door opening. You know the one. Drives me crazy every time I hear it.

http://www.hark.com/clips/glnvyhrndp-metaldoor

I feel like I heard this sound a bunch in RE4.

 

[dhonk]

Haha, fuck that sound. Actually fuck all these american reality shows for being so manipulative in any way they can.

 

[wetflame]

That squeaky/rusty door opening. You know the one. Drives me crazy every time I hear it.

http://www.hark.com/clips/glnvyhrndp-metaldoor

This is the first thing I thought of when I saw the thread. Hear this sound effect in EVERYTHING.

 

[MikeDown]

Don't know what it's called but it's clearly a pig's squeal slowed down listening to it.

That helps narrowing it down Yeah I've just been hearing it everywhere and it has been really bothering me.

 

[reminder]

This one isn't *overused* but I remember it from playing the hell out of Diddy Kong Racing and I hear it every once in a while in TV

(Children screaming when Rareware logo appears)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hln2z7MCsUQ

I was going to post this in here. I hear it every now and then on TV but i couldn't manage to find other examples than DKR.

 

[Razgriz-Specter]

Wilhelm Scream.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_scream

Hear it in movies, tv, etc.

That's a classic though.
Laugh every time I hear it.

The classic woman scream is annoying though.

 

[sharkmuncher]

This sound is everywhere when they need a police dispatch sound, EVERYWHERE

 

[Interceptor]

Sorry OP, can´t help.

As for the new Topic ^^: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nA3EU4ZcK8 It´s used in many, many movies and series.

 

[LycanXIII]

Cicadas. You know I'm right.

 

[Banjotanooki]

It's this overplayed fireball sound that I cannot stand.

http://www.hark.com/clips/xkywggxwrf-fireball

STAR FOX ADVENTURES!!!!

 

[H2Yo]

Add Survivor to the list of shows with the that sound effect. (the one this thread is about).

 

[canoli2006]

Generic typing and mouse clicking. I think I remember the effects used a lot in episodes of Smallville.

 

[The Power Of Snap]

Bass drop in commercials.

 

[Vesmir]

Fuck most of these sounds. Whenever I hear them, it takes me out of whatever I'm watching.

Especially Wilheim, that other yell, and the children ho ho ha ha-ing.

 

[Kinyou]

I hate this wind sound effect

I really noticed it for the first time in the Telltale Monkey Island game and now I hear it everywhere.

Without a doubt, this horribly fake crowd gasping has been getting a lot of use lately. I first heard it in a trailer while working at a movie theater five or six years ago and it still makes me cringe.

WAV link

Everyone who played Super Smash Bros. knows that one.