For the sound of growing plant tentacles or roots crawling up walls and grasping objects, try squeezing some raw vegetables – like iceberg salat, green peppers or asparagus. Also perhaps… read more →
Get a stick of bamboo or other light wood and move it quickly to and fro in front of the mic. Swish it back and forth as fast as you… read more →
If you put a sparkler and melt it into a styrofoam cup sideways so that the mouth of it is facing towards you, the sound is very alike to that… read more →
If you break up the gray powdery stuff found on sparklers into a fine powder, you can lay them in a line and set it off like a fuse –… read more →
I’ve been designing creature SFX recently, and after the first few creatures, found myself returning to the same elements (snake hisses, walrus roars, tiger gurgles, etc). Don’t be afraid to… read more →
If you want to simulate the roar of an animal, an angry tiger or lion for example, take a corrugated cardboard box, place two condenser mics (one outside the box,… read more →
Very recently I had to create a skidding sound effect for a game where engine sounds would not be acceptable. What I did was I acquired a carpet tile and… read more →
For a cool outer space depth charge explosion, use a screwdriver and run it down the low E string of a guitar. EQ the sound so the high end is… read more →