I am sort of reminded of the photo of the sound designer on Star Wars with a contact mike and a hammer, whacking a long antenna guy wire to get the basic “Ptwang!” sound he based the blaster sound effects on.
Oh come on now. That’s not even getting into the funnier parts of sound designs. Take the fruits and vegetables sessions to breaks and cracks. Case in point, a lot of bone breaks in sound design are ether carrots or celery. One of the more interesting ones I’ve seen them work around is actually sounds for ice. Those can get pretty interesting.
Now, next time I listen to an episode, I’ll be imagining that the assailant isn’t clubbing the victim, but that the victim is getting triggered by a cantaloupe getting hammered.
Now I’m imagining them having done a meta-parody called “The Coming of the Cantaloupe Man!”
I wonder if she’s tried either M-S (mid-side), or soundfield (Ambisonic) microphones, in place of the usual stereo pair she seemed to be using.
The latter type (which uses four microphones mounted very close together} can let you do some very interesting surround-sound effects in post-processing.
As to ambient sounds – back in the 1970s one of my favorite bands recorded the sound of the Island Records studio air conditioning system blowing air under one of the studio doors. It made a perfect “wind in the mountains” effect for the anvil they were working on.
I am sort of reminded of the photo of the sound designer on Star Wars with a contact mike and a hammer, whacking a long antenna guy wire to get the basic “Ptwang!” sound he based the blaster sound effects on.
Quest for the Perfect Sound?
She is lucky that she is basically a goddess. That would have been hard on an standard mortal.
Oh my goodness! I have caught up!
Welcome to the Wait
Also, it means you can go back and re-re-re-re-read this great webic 🙂
Oh come on now. That’s not even getting into the funnier parts of sound designs. Take the fruits and vegetables sessions to breaks and cracks. Case in point, a lot of bone breaks in sound design are ether carrots or celery. One of the more interesting ones I’ve seen them work around is actually sounds for ice. Those can get pretty interesting.
“Inner Sanctum” had a special hammer they would crush cantaloupes with for the sound of someone being hit on the head
It’s NOT a slicer!
It’s NOT a dicer!
It’s NOT a chopper-inna-hopper!
WHAT IN THE H#@! COULD IT POSSIBLY BE?!?
It’s SLEDGE-O-MATIC! ™
(RIP Gallagher…)
Now, next time I listen to an episode, I’ll be imagining that the assailant isn’t clubbing the victim, but that the victim is getting triggered by a cantaloupe getting hammered.
Now I’m imagining them having done a meta-parody called “The Coming of the Cantaloupe Man!”
I wonder if she’s tried either M-S (mid-side), or soundfield (Ambisonic) microphones, in place of the usual stereo pair she seemed to be using.
The latter type (which uses four microphones mounted very close together} can let you do some very interesting surround-sound effects in post-processing.
As to ambient sounds – back in the 1970s one of my favorite bands recorded the sound of the Island Records studio air conditioning system blowing air under one of the studio doors. It made a perfect “wind in the mountains” effect for the anvil they were working on.
Neat sounds are where you find them!
Is that first one the thing from Mexico/California where they swing burning steel wool on a wire or chain? (I forget the name of the technique.)
High yield recording?
Mindy and Hiroshi live together now?
Yes. We even have a location!
https://wapsisquare.com/location/mindy-and-hiroshis-apartment/
I missed the location in those June comics!
At least we know she wears protection