Re: [ARSCLIST] Ringtones, etc.

["Marie Azile O'Connell" <marie.oconnell@xxxxxxx>]

Hi there

A plug for Sound Archives/Nga Taonga Korero in New Zealand - they used to have a
largish collection of sound effects.  Witches being stretched on racks, large
crowd sounds, footsteps, dentist drills (the old kind), etc.  I assume they
still have them.  Also, the BBC would be a great source.  Just my sixpence
worth!

Cheers

Marie
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Quoting Steven Smolian <smolians@xxxxxxxxx>:

> Hi, Tom,
> 
> I think Graham Newton, the moderator of this list, has been accumulating 
> sound efects libraries for years and digitizing them.  For mor info, check 
> with him.
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tom Fine" <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 6:59 PM
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Ringtones, etc.
> 
> 
> > Hi Steve:
> >
> > I know a little bit about the Hollywood thing second-hand from one studio.
> 
> > They have a well-managed digital SFX library -- constantly backed up and 
> > churned. Believe me, Hollywood can afford it. More importantly, a lot of 
> > those old film loops sounded awful and just don't work in today's 
> > production environment. So this studio has been on a constant project --  
> > with annual budget -- of recording just about any effect you can imagine 
> > in not just high fidelity (ie high-rez digital) but also in surround so it
> 
> > can easily be edited into a surround matrix. I read somewhere that the 
> > Oscar-winning sound mix for "Black Hawk Down" involved 1000+ individual 
> > effects and some sequences had 200+ "ambience" elements alone. Quite a 
> > long way since the days when the very biggest mixing consoles for 
> > Hollywood had 12 and later 24 channels!
> >
> > Now, that said, it would be nice to preserve some of those antique 
> > effects. I have a few Major SFX 78's. Where today are you going to find an
> 
> > SFX loop "smashing a piano with a sledge hammer" or "biplane selections - 
> > taking off, taxi, idle, landing, flyover"?
> >
> > -- Tom Fine
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Steven Smolian" <smolians@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 10:37 AM
> > Subject: [ARSCLIST] Ringtones, etc.
> >
> >
> > As annoying as today's product noises may seem to us more mature folks, 
> > they capture perfectly part of the aural essence of this time period. 
> > They will, in the future, be sonic time machines for those presently usung
> 
> > them until superceeded by the next thing that comes along.
> >
> > There should be a Smithsonian library of everyday sounds.
> >
> > When the Hollywood production companies were disposing of their huge tape 
> > libraries of analogically recorded sounds effects after converting them to
> 
> > or rerecording them again in digital sound, I couldn't find any 
> > institution interested in preserving the old ones.  At that time I could 
> > have had the libraries of at leat three of the major film studios and a 
> > bunch of post-production houses. Preventing them from being discarded is 
> > one of the regrets of my life.
> >
> > Steve Smolian
> >
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