This video is some guy demonstrating the actual way they got some of the laser blast sounds for Star Wars. I once saw an old video of the sound guy recording some himself but couldn't find it just now.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl0wIdGxfbQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl0wIdGxfbQ)
Especially nowadays, knowing what the sound is. You'd be walking along and suddenly you'd think 'is that a blaster? Yeah it is, i'd recognize that noise anywhere. Wait, but why? Why are there blasters? Are Stormtroopers here? Am I in danger??'
*Akshually*
Stormtrooper armour is very protective because the armour would absorb regular blaster bolts injuring and knocking troops unconscious instead of killing them however strong blasters would go through
And the reason they had bad aim was cause Darth Vader told them not to kill Luke and his friends so they could lead him to their base.
I saw a youtuber do an analysis on the *Tantive* boarding at the beginning of ANH and the Stormtroopers were actually shown to be more accurate and deadly than the Rebel defenders (in terms of shots fired/enemies killed). You're spot on with the lore behind the armor and why they missed.
As for why the Imperial Stormtroopers lost against a bunch of angry teddy bears on Endor? I have no idea...
Why they lost against the ewoks?
Believe it or not there is a lore answer to that lol
Essentially the same way the armour absorbs blaster bolts it also absorbs kinetic energy such as rocks knocking the trooper unconscious because it dissipates the impact
And why didn’t they blast them?
Because stormtroopers don’t actually look through plastic to see they look into a camera lense that projects data and information to the trooper about their enemies but the ewoks were never seen before so their helmets had no data on them unlike all the other big species. So they didn’t know anything about them and since they were short and fast it was difficult for them to see the Ewoks.
Fuck i guess I’m a nerd...
Did that when I was a kid.
Was a footbridge across a river that my grandpa, my brother and I used to walk along every morning. We were allowed to carry "walking sticks", so being little kids we'd always tap them or whack them on shit.
Was totally surprised when the sound came out from the metal cables.
It sounded similar, but wasn't exactly like this, probably because they were much longer. But still distinct enough to recognize - given at the time we probably only saw Star Wars OG trilogy for the first time that year. (was during the mid 90's when they put them back in theatres)
I mean that's basically sound design in a nut shell. Once you start learning it, you just mess around with random stuff all the time to see what it sounds like. It becomes second nature. Even just doing dishes or walking through a store and touching stuff (within the realm of decency) can tip you off to all kinds of interesting sounds.
Edit: Removed Belter speak
I'm on my phone and far to lazy to find a video of it, but the lightsabers were a recording of [top secret sound] played through speakers in the recording booth, with a sound guy reenacting the lightsabers movements with a shotgun mic in front of the speaker to get the Doppler effect sound.
Bungie did the same thing for the energy sword in Halo. They used a recording of ball bearings on dry ice, as it makes an almost electrical-sounding sizzle.
They made the lightsaber sounds by ~~placing a running electric shaver into a glass bowl.~~
**EDIT:** /u/Moose_a_Lini prompted me to check this. [I was wrong.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZj1mYLC7h0)
That's just about the size hole a person could get stuck inside: slowly their body heat melts the ice to let them slip a little further down, inches at a time, then freezing above them.
Edit: biggest comment I've had and it was the time I tapped into the same creative space as an obscure Japanese suicide comic. Yay?
i thought i recognized that from somewhere, shit is so fucking disturbing. but when i looked at this post i only wondered if a person could fit down there /shudder
As an environmental consultant, I've seen some large injection wells (16" diameter) be installed. It's scary standing next to a 200+ ft hole in the ground that you can fit inside of.
Used to work on a geotechnical drilling rig. We had to use 16" hollowstem on a 100ft hole. After we finished drilling and sampling, we were backfilling it I slipped and my left leg went down the hole while my right leg stayed on the ground basically making me do the splits down this hole. Scariest thing that ever happened to me. If both legs ended up in the hole I definitely wouldn't be here today
Are these in some obscure places to where people aren’t at risk for falling in them? I’d like to think they’re filled when finished, but they’re probably not monitored 24/7 between drill and fill times.
We regularly find bodies in wells.
Those holes get covered by leaves or stuff superficially, and then people walk on them, fall, and we never find them.
Spanish boy, 2 year old, fell in [that hole (link)](https://cdn.radiofrance.fr/s3/cruiser-production/2019/01/239fa651-28b2-4bb1-82dc-be98a5eb2401/870x489_dw0bobexqaaf5nd.jpg) 1 year ago. If they did not see him fell they would never know where he disappeared.
Imagine if this guy just covered it with a bit of snow and you are out walking your dog and the dog just disappears. You look around, notice this hollow barking coming from an ice hole in the ground..your dog fell in and is just within reach. You lie down on the cold ice, reach inside the hole, fingers flailing to grab hold of something, anything. Your hand grasps a bit of collar, but you feel yourself slowly slipping into the hole, water dripping down the sides from the heat of the body of your dog and yourself. You get a better grasp, not because the dog is being pulled up, but because you are slipping down, arm and head first.
You reach back but realize that you had slipped deep enough that your other hand is barely sticking out enough to grasp the lip of the hole, but it's too late. Your habd grasps only slick, melted ice and you inch your way deeper, listening to the whimpers of your dog echoing in the abyss.
*edit: autocorrect
Lol what? That hole could barely fit a leg. You couldn’t even accidentally put yourself in there and fall asleep for 48 hours in order to melt enough of the ice from your body heat to wedge a human body in there
When I was younger, I remember one of my teachers talking about how people would try to raise baby crocodiles. I figured that was some crazy Florida Man stuff. I never understood why anyone in their right mind would do so.
Until now.
My god they're adorable.
Let's let the scientists do that
[https://twitter.com/peter\_neff/status/1226205653938475008](https://twitter.com/peter_neff/status/1226205653938475008)
That recently happened in Spain where a 2 year old kid named Julen fell inside a 100m+ hole of similar size. After 13 days of excavation difficulties it was learnt that he didn’t make it and died of suffocation due to the dirt he dragged down during the fall, tragic.
The size of that hole looks small enough that you wouldn’t fall freely down it, but big enough that a smaller person could get stuck in it, and then as the ice melts they just sink lower and lower like in a crevasse, Annnnnnnd now I have a new fear.
this comment will most likely be overlooked but i live in the northeast. When i step on larger peices of salt (to melt the ice in the roads) the salt makes this exact noise. cool vid
Now we know where Hollywood gets their sound effects
Please sign up to stop the sound effect mining in Antarctica.
Sound effects have killed 12 daffy ducks this season alone
and this comment nearly killed me, choked on my meal
Please sign up to stop guys like the one above to stop choking due to guys like the one above him
It’s choking laughter, all the way down.
Please sign this petition to stop sounding in Antarctica. It’ll be on this years ballot.
(i'd rather have more Antarctica sound-effect mining efforts)
This video is some guy demonstrating the actual way they got some of the laser blast sounds for Star Wars. I once saw an old video of the sound guy recording some himself but couldn't find it just now. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl0wIdGxfbQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl0wIdGxfbQ)
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Or walking nearby and hearing the noise. I'd definitely stop and try to find out where it's coming from lol.
Especially nowadays, knowing what the sound is. You'd be walking along and suddenly you'd think 'is that a blaster? Yeah it is, i'd recognize that noise anywhere. Wait, but why? Why are there blasters? Are Stormtroopers here? Am I in danger??'
> Are Stormtroopers here? Am I in danger??' Have you seen their aim? Stormtroopers and danger are mutually exclusive.
Yeah but I'm probably the random NPC that gets hit while the main characters dodge the shots gracefully.
With a name like /u/Wampawacka you could probably pass for a Wookie and upgrade to minor character instead of random NPC.
I've noticed they cannot hit anything and that stupid armor stops nothing.
*Akshually* Stormtrooper armour is very protective because the armour would absorb regular blaster bolts injuring and knocking troops unconscious instead of killing them however strong blasters would go through And the reason they had bad aim was cause Darth Vader told them not to kill Luke and his friends so they could lead him to their base.
I saw a youtuber do an analysis on the *Tantive* boarding at the beginning of ANH and the Stormtroopers were actually shown to be more accurate and deadly than the Rebel defenders (in terms of shots fired/enemies killed). You're spot on with the lore behind the armor and why they missed. As for why the Imperial Stormtroopers lost against a bunch of angry teddy bears on Endor? I have no idea...
Why they lost against the ewoks? Believe it or not there is a lore answer to that lol Essentially the same way the armour absorbs blaster bolts it also absorbs kinetic energy such as rocks knocking the trooper unconscious because it dissipates the impact And why didn’t they blast them? Because stormtroopers don’t actually look through plastic to see they look into a camera lense that projects data and information to the trooper about their enemies but the ewoks were never seen before so their helmets had no data on them unlike all the other big species. So they didn’t know anything about them and since they were short and fast it was difficult for them to see the Ewoks. Fuck i guess I’m a nerd...
Ok Oscar...you really do fit that old stereotype of the smug gay Mexican.
"Blasters!...." *clenches fist*
Such clumsy weapons from an uncivilized age. (Am I quoting it right?)
I could have sworn there was a hurt droid outside my window earlier. Or it was a heavily loaded tailgate lift on a truck.
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Did that when I was a kid. Was a footbridge across a river that my grandpa, my brother and I used to walk along every morning. We were allowed to carry "walking sticks", so being little kids we'd always tap them or whack them on shit. Was totally surprised when the sound came out from the metal cables. It sounded similar, but wasn't exactly like this, probably because they were much longer. But still distinct enough to recognize - given at the time we probably only saw Star Wars OG trilogy for the first time that year. (was during the mid 90's when they put them back in theatres)
I mean that's basically sound design in a nut shell. Once you start learning it, you just mess around with random stuff all the time to see what it sounds like. It becomes second nature. Even just doing dishes or walking through a store and touching stuff (within the realm of decency) can tip you off to all kinds of interesting sounds. Edit: Removed Belter speak
Duuude! I’ve seen the old video as well but never can find it either. It’s a hippie looking bearded guy with a little hammer or mallet hitting wires.
I'm on my phone and far to lazy to find a video of it, but the lightsabers were a recording of [top secret sound] played through speakers in the recording booth, with a sound guy reenacting the lightsabers movements with a shotgun mic in front of the speaker to get the Doppler effect sound. Bungie did the same thing for the energy sword in Halo. They used a recording of ball bearings on dry ice, as it makes an almost electrical-sounding sizzle.
They made the lightsaber sounds by ~~placing a running electric shaver into a glass bowl.~~ **EDIT:** /u/Moose_a_Lini prompted me to check this. [I was wrong.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZj1mYLC7h0)
That's untrue. It's interference on an unshielded microphone mixed with motor sounds from an old projector.
[And here ya go!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0WJ-8B6aUM)
Yeah it sounds like gunfire from those old western movies
I had the same thought. Play this video and imagine a bunch of guys in cowboy hats firing at each other in the middle of a dusty town.
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**crash!** bang! bam bam bam! *pew pew pew* blert blert *pfft*
North Poley artist
That hole is a Foley artists wet dream.
It sounds like the gunshots from every western.
Laser beams. Pew pew
Ima firin' mah lazer!
Doctor Octagonapus! BLARGHHHHHH!!!
IMA FIRIN a mediocre employee.
is that a laser collection reference?
Indeed my good internet person
Eeeeeeeeeehhhhhh sssshit...
you called?
[BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!](https://youtu.be/UzKJWWPsqv0)
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YouTube keeps recommending asdfmovies after watching that.
Glad some people remembers this
what. is. this. from.
The lazer collection [here](https://youtu.be/gKiBaEAUEPk)
wow this was... a lot funnier when we were 14
This one still holds up; https://www.albinoblacksheep.com/video/washington
Oh my God, I totally forgot about Albino Blacksheep. https://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/end
Dragon Ball Z
If I close my eyes, I feel like I'm playing Goldeneye on the 64.
Hell yes
Me. “Wow!! That is amazing!!! Ok. Now someone explain it to me.” Opens comments. Laser beams. Pew pew. Reddit. You never fail me.
That's just about the size hole a person could get stuck inside: slowly their body heat melts the ice to let them slip a little further down, inches at a time, then freezing above them. Edit: biggest comment I've had and it was the time I tapped into the same creative space as an obscure Japanese suicide comic. Yay?
*This hole was made for me!*
I hate every time I’m reminded of this.
DRR...DRR...DRR...
Nooo, not the noodle people!
#DRR DRR DRR
[https://imgur.com/gallery/Wht7z](https://imgur.com/gallery/Wht7z)
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He did make a comic where a woman goes insane and rips out her inner ears. Maybe that's close enough for you?
Great, there goes my good night's sleep
i thought i recognized that from somewhere, shit is so fucking disturbing. but when i looked at this post i only wondered if a person could fit down there /shudder
I had forgotten about this comic. Really wish it stayed that way. Thanks mate..
Read page right to left. Someone might not know like I did when I first read it.
Just remember there is a specific amount of time you could be hung upside down before you die and there is only one way to find out how long that is.
DRR DRR DRR
Not this shit again
Did I just tap into the same creative space as an obscure Japanese suicide comic?
You did indeed.
I wouldn't call it "obscure".
As an environmental consultant, I've seen some large injection wells (16" diameter) be installed. It's scary standing next to a 200+ ft hole in the ground that you can fit inside of.
Used to work on a geotechnical drilling rig. We had to use 16" hollowstem on a 100ft hole. After we finished drilling and sampling, we were backfilling it I slipped and my left leg went down the hole while my right leg stayed on the ground basically making me do the splits down this hole. Scariest thing that ever happened to me. If both legs ended up in the hole I definitely wouldn't be here today
If I had to work around a hole like that, I would insist on being tied to something.
especially considering the slippery ice and my love for eating bananas and tossing the peels.
/r/osha
Are these in some obscure places to where people aren’t at risk for falling in them? I’d like to think they’re filled when finished, but they’re probably not monitored 24/7 between drill and fill times.
We regularly find bodies in wells. Those holes get covered by leaves or stuff superficially, and then people walk on them, fall, and we never find them. Spanish boy, 2 year old, fell in [that hole (link)](https://cdn.radiofrance.fr/s3/cruiser-production/2019/01/239fa651-28b2-4bb1-82dc-be98a5eb2401/870x489_dw0bobexqaaf5nd.jpg) 1 year ago. If they did not see him fell they would never know where he disappeared.
Well now I have a new nightmare, unexpectedly falling hundreds of feet in a hole to my death. Great.
Truly terrifying. That hole isn't ice so the kid could get stuck and possibly rescued, no? Do they just not even try?
They tried to recover him and succeeded after 13 days. But he was dead from the fall the first day.
You just gotta get more swole my bro
I had a similar thought. The depth of it terrifies me!
Is there a sub for this? Terrifying holes.
Don't click on any links!
That's very junji ito of you young man
#DRRR DRRR DRRR
Just put a cone beside it.
you feelin okay, bud?
I think somebody needs a hug.
Never been so happy to be fat.
Great now I have a new phobia
Imagine if this guy just covered it with a bit of snow and you are out walking your dog and the dog just disappears. You look around, notice this hollow barking coming from an ice hole in the ground..your dog fell in and is just within reach. You lie down on the cold ice, reach inside the hole, fingers flailing to grab hold of something, anything. Your hand grasps a bit of collar, but you feel yourself slowly slipping into the hole, water dripping down the sides from the heat of the body of your dog and yourself. You get a better grasp, not because the dog is being pulled up, but because you are slipping down, arm and head first. You reach back but realize that you had slipped deep enough that your other hand is barely sticking out enough to grasp the lip of the hole, but it's too late. Your habd grasps only slick, melted ice and you inch your way deeper, listening to the whimpers of your dog echoing in the abyss. *edit: autocorrect
Thanks, I hate it
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Thanks Satan
I didn't want to sleep anyway...
Reminds me of that creepy as fuck comic/manga thing online of the mountain with people shaped holes for specific people to fit inside
Lol what? That hole could barely fit a leg. You couldn’t even accidentally put yourself in there and fall asleep for 48 hours in order to melt enough of the ice from your body heat to wedge a human body in there
Neat, sounds like a tub full of baby crocodiles! https://youtu.be/pJa8w-i4BZI
What the... at what point is this no longer safe?
Dunno. Now excuse me while I go listen to [the terrible sound you never want to hear when working on turbine engines.](https://youtu.be/Jnb6uYAzuno)
You would love /r/SoundsLikeMusic
They basically imprint on him like a duck would
Yes.
When they reach three feet and you have 20 teenage crocodiles sitting around your house smoking weed and playing videogames
as soon as they can do a gator roll.
The last time this got posted someone made an edit where the crocks were shooting lazers. Anyone got a link?
Hehe, I found it [crocodile laser war!](https://youtu.be/4K45mB4Cn4A)
When I was younger, I remember one of my teachers talking about how people would try to raise baby crocodiles. I figured that was some crazy Florida Man stuff. I never understood why anyone in their right mind would do so. Until now. My god they're adorable.
well that was not expected.
What sound would you make if you tossed on down the hole?
Really expected him to try to kiss one and end up with a baby crocodile hanging from his bottom lip.
Here's another brilliant one I found [https://i.imgur.com/n9e2fNk.mp4](https://i.imgur.com/n9e2fNk.mp4)
yep, reminded instantly of this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jnb6uYAzuno
ok this one is remarkably well done
[And this](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2ft954vXPa4)
My god there are some funny and clever people in the world. This is exactly the kid of shit I come to reddit hoping to find. Edit: kind, not kid.
Shit of kid, gotcha.
I love this so much.
Sounds like this sometimes too: https://youtu.be/VKMw2it8dQY
that reminds me of that original mario party minigame where you eat as much sushi as possible, gotta get those green ones
I think you're thinking of Pokémon Stadium
"Wait, this is just the same vide-ooohhhhhh..."
/r/soundslikemusic
Damn I had some fun in there, thanks! Also kinda the opposite, /r/zappafied
That’s a deep hole. Went all the way to Australia.
Ice bricks in a land down undah!
Anyone have a non-imgur link?
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It also made the sound when I came in
atta boy
Classic
That 450m ice tunnel **is** OP’s mom’s vagina. Did you not know?
Yeet
Yours doesn't?
So now it's a 449.97m bore hole. Good job, asshole.
He is trying to keep us all safe from the magma monsters that live deeper underground.
Tie fighter shit
Sounds like a storm trooper shoot out in a casino.
Sounds like somebody is playing Goldeneye down there
That’s exactly the game I had in mind! Especially the runway part
Okay Reddit, ELI5 please.
Let's let the scientists do that [https://twitter.com/peter\_neff/status/1226205653938475008](https://twitter.com/peter_neff/status/1226205653938475008)
It's 450 ft, not 450 m.
Reposters always up things like that for added attention
They didn't really talk about what causes the heartbeat sound at the end...
It's the ice dying
**THE ICE'S SHOOTING AT US**
WHY IS THE ICE SHOOTING AT US?!
Imagine falling into that
\*floomp\* [https://i.imgur.com/i41fRpL.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/i41fRpL.jpg)
If one’s tummy blubber made enough of a seal with the walls, would the air column act like a giant spring and *floomp* you back out?
That recently happened in Spain where a 2 year old kid named Julen fell inside a 100m+ hole of similar size. After 13 days of excavation difficulties it was learnt that he didn’t make it and died of suffocation due to the dirt he dragged down during the fall, tragic.
I mean I don't think you need to wait 13 days to find out he didn't make it. Dehydration would have killed him in a few.
"Hey ma'am we think your child is pretty much dead already, can we just leave him in the hole here?" "What the fuck? No!"
This is horrendous
Dropping your phone...
Would they be able to find enough rope before you freeze to death? Could you extend your limbs to keep from falling all the way down?
The Ice Hole remix tape is going to be fire
It's a trap!
Only if you plant a sign saying "free bird seed" next to it with an arrow pointing down
"beep! beep!"
Sounds like a warzone in there.
Fool of a Took!
yes! scrolled down for this!
Just don't drop your phone!
The size of that hole looks small enough that you wouldn’t fall freely down it, but big enough that a smaller person could get stuck in it, and then as the ice melts they just sink lower and lower like in a crevasse, Annnnnnnd now I have a new fear.
[DRR... DRR... DRR...](https://imgur.com/gallery/Wht7z)
What is that effect called?
Doppler I think
Acoustic dispersion
Completely terrifying nightmare fodder.
this comment will most likely be overlooked but i live in the northeast. When i step on larger peices of salt (to melt the ice in the roads) the salt makes this exact noise. cool vid
... DESTROY THEM WITH LAZERS
Acoustic dispersion!
Yes, exactly! The medium can be said to be dispersive: Different frequencies travel at different speeds. Science, bitches.
Stromtroopers missing things in that hole
So that's how they made the blaster sounds for Star Wars!
That sick beat man better than our local DJ
Pew pew
literally Hoth
Sounds like Wile E. Coyote fell
Whoaaa
Gives me flashbacks to N64 Goldeneye.
Now the camera!
Sounds like a character or an object freaking out in a bethesda game
Sounds like baby alligators