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public domain sound effects: who put their Howie in my starcraft?

Sci-Fi WasabiSci-Fi Wasabi Registered User regular
edited August 2009 in Help / Advice Forum
ok guys, I need some help tracking down a sound effect heard in movies ALL the time. It's two or more kids giggling and laughing. The first giggle kind of goes upward in octave, and the second/third go down in octave, if that makes any sense. It's kind of like the Wilhelm scream of kids....laughing. Anyway, Giant Bomb uses it in their cuts during their question of the week. If anyone can help me find a WAV/MP3 of this sound effect or something like it, that would be awesome.

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  • ascannerlightlyascannerlightly Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    can you name some movies it's been used in? perhaps provide a youtube clip?

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  • TaranisTaranis Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Wasn't there a windows app that played that clip? I think I've heard it in an app.

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  • BartholamueBartholamue Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Would it happen to be in this?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce_l_YX_MUg

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  • Sci-Fi WasabiSci-Fi Wasabi Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Bartholamue wrote: »
    snip

    AHHHHH thats it!

    I wish it had a name like the Wilhelm scream.

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  • BartholamueBartholamue Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Yeah, it'd be a lot easier to find, but I knew exactly what you were talking about.

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  • TK-42-1TK-42-1 Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    its in the intro scene in supertroopers. i think that might be pretty clean if you can get a hold of that. its when they keep repeating 'littering and... littering and...'

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  • GodfatherGodfather Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    That's not real children laughter, is it?

    No kids could ever make those terrifying siren sounds.

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  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    They use it in Rollercoaster Tycoon, I think

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  • TheGreat2ndTheGreat2nd Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Zombiemambo wrote: »
    They use it in Rollercoaster Tycoon, I think

    I know what you're talking about.
    But I don't know the names of the sounds.

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  • DarkewolfeDarkewolfe Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Oh, god. This makes me think of that one... screaming man sound. I always associate it with Terrans dying in Starcraft, but it features in movies constantly. It's also in the Mechwarrior 4 intro, right as a mech tromps on an infantryman. It's kind of disturbing when they reuse sounds like that.

    I think the giggling children might be more deeply disturbing, though. What do you need it for?

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  • Monolithic_DomeMonolithic_Dome Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Darkewolfe wrote: »
    Oh, god. This makes me think of that one... screaming man sound. I always associate it with Terrans dying in Starcraft, but it features in movies constantly. It's also in the Mechwarrior 4 intro, right as a mech tromps on an infantryman. It's kind of disturbing when they reuse sounds like that.

    I think the giggling children might be more deeply disturbing, though. What do you need it for?

    Google the "Howie Scream"

    On'a these days I'm going to collect all of these ubiquitous stock sound effects, give them all names and call the website jesusiveheardthatbeforewherethefuckwasit.com

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  • KlorgnumKlorgnum Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Monolithic_Dome wrote: »
    Darkewolfe wrote: »
    Oh, god. This makes me think of that one... screaming man sound. I always associate it with Terrans dying in Starcraft, but it features in movies constantly. It's also in the Mechwarrior 4 intro, right as a mech tromps on an infantryman. It's kind of disturbing when they reuse sounds like that.

    I think the giggling children might be more deeply disturbing, though. What do you need it for?

    Google the "Howie Scream"

    On'a these days I'm going to collect all of these ubiquitous stock sound effects, give them all names and call the website jesusiveheardthatbeforewherethefuckwasit.com

    I've been wondering about that scream for a while now. Thanks!

    Also you need to make that website.

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  • ilmmadilmmad Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Zombiemambo wrote: »
    They use it in Rollercoaster Tycoon, I think

    Came here to say that. Steal my thunder, will you!?

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  • 815165815165 Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    ilmmad wrote: »
    Zombiemambo wrote: »
    They use it in Rollercoaster Tycoon, I think

    Came here to say that. Steal my thunder, will you!?

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  • RPGeekRPGeek Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    It's also in the background in Baldur's Gate, and it's been bugging me forever.

    http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/4743/wav/kids.wav ,
    which I found through
    http://www.themovieblog.com/2007/10/movie-blog-history-class-the-wilhelm-scream

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  • TheGreat2ndTheGreat2nd Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    RPGeek wrote: »
    It's also in the background in Baldur's Gate, and it's been bugging me forever.

    http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/4743/wav/kids.wav ,
    which I found through
    http://www.themovieblog.com/2007/10/movie-blog-history-class-the-wilhelm-scream

    DAMMIT THAT'S THE SOUND
    what's the name of it

    you sneaky sleuth you

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Man there are a bunch of these sounds that I can think of. The "glass breaking/tinkle" sound, the "large crowd all *gasps*" sound...

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  • symbolsorsymbolsor Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Along the same lines, does anyone know that famous girl scream? You can hear it on track 12 of Scenes from a Memory by Dream Theater, skip to around 4:30. I think I've heard it in Timespiltters too...

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  • acidlacedpenguinacidlacedpenguin Institutionalized Safe in jail.Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    sounds that I hear repeated often, described by where I first remember hearing (not necessarily where it originated):

    doom door close sound
    doom imp gurgle sound
    doom imp death sound
    doom pinky groan
    doom grunt death scream

    command and conquer soldier death

    warcraft 2 orc farm; pig oinking sound
    starcraft terran academy sound

    damn, I thought I knew more of them.

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    The Terran Academy sound is the Howie Scream mentioned above.

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  • NightDragonNightDragon 6th Grade Username Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    815165 wrote: »
    ilmmad wrote: »
    Zombiemambo wrote: »
    They use it in Rollercoaster Tycoon, I think

    Came here to say that. Steal my thunder, will you!?

    hahaha, I hear Rollercoaster Tycoon giggles and rollercoaster-screams all the time in movies and shows on TV.

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  • DelzhandDelzhand Registered User, Transition Team regular
    edited August 2009
    KalTorak wrote: »
    The Terran Academy sound is the Howie Scream mentioned above.

    Is this also the one used in the X-Men Evolution season 3 intro when the Brotherhood is rushing the screen?

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  • acidlacedpenguinacidlacedpenguin Institutionalized Safe in jail.Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    KalTorak wrote: »
    The Terran Academy sound is the Howie Scream mentioned above.

    I see.

    When I looked for the howie scream on youtube before I wrote my post I guess I got linked to the wilhelm scream and assumed they were one and the same.

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  • ArrathArrath Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Guys don't forget the "Sitting down in a chair metal squeak/scrape sound" as featured when getting into the Commander's Chair in Natural Selection. Now I hear it everywhere.

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  • acidlacedpenguinacidlacedpenguin Institutionalized Safe in jail.Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    I vote OP changes tread title to "public domain sound effects: who put their Howie in my starcraft?"

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  • TK-42-1TK-42-1 Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    i hear the sound a landing terran building makes all the time in sci-fi movies

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  • DeathPrawnDeathPrawn Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    When you get an alert (job offer, order from an officer, etc) in Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates, it plays the same sound effect that's used for the in-ship communicator panels on Star Trek. Used to confuse the hell out of me for some reason.

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  • Sci-Fi WasabiSci-Fi Wasabi Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    HOT DAMN GUYS

    The Diddy Laugh


    Link to MP3:
    http://www.pagetworld.co.uk/diddylaugh.mp3

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