The most abused sound effect on this list is more of an in-joke in movies. Nowadays it means something equally devastating is about to go down, like Superman and Zod are about to throw down. And it’s sometimes called Gabriel’s Horn because it is reminiscient of the horn the archangel Gabriel might use to signal the beginning of the biblical apocalypse. It is described as a bassy sound of a horn giving us one long, low note.
But the use of a deep, reverberating horn to sound the arrival of something wicked has been around before Chris came along. Yes, the specific and BWAAM sound effect made famous since it first shook our eardrums in the Inception (2010) trailer is definitely his baby. Christopher Nolan was not the first filmmaker to make this sound effect popular. GABRIEL’S HORN (aka BWAAM from INCEPTION) Nowadays it’s not heard from as much due to the original recording being analog, it just doesn’t stand up well in today’s sound mixes. Used first in the original Frankenstein (1931), almost every cartoon with a dark villain has used it. And this was the sound effect that went with it. To really accent the evil nature of this place, it came with its own well-timed thunder strike (as evil lairs do). If you grew up on movies that depicted a dark wizard or evil witch who resided in a shadowy castle or a haunted house with a terrible past, you probably heard this sound effect as the camera zooms in on the evil lair for the first time. Often used as a jump scare for how the horn suddenly blares as it speeds by, it has also just been used to death as a regular stock sound to blend into the background of traffic ambience.
It’s history is a bit of an enigma but it’s arguably the #1 sound effect for whenever a truck passes by our characters. You’ve heard hundreds if not thousands of trucks passing by in real-life but never have you heard one like this.
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Which is why it’s been traded for an eagle call in movie scenes filmmakers have all agreed that it just sounds cooler and goes with the impressive beauty of the soaring eagle. The sound that the eagle actually makes is…well, let’s just say it’s far more adorable and not nearly as impressive as that of the hawk. That screech that the sly eagle has been passing off as his legendary call is actually the screech of a red-tailed hawk. Let me explain: that sound that everyone associates with an eagle as it soars into view in a movie? Yeah, it’s actually not an eagle at all. The gorgeous eagle that has awed us on-screen is an imposter. Let us pull the proverbial curtain back on some of these oft-used sound effects that continue to be pulled out of the foley toolkit again and again over the years. Why? There are many reasons, but generally it’s because the sounds work well and the majority of us would never be the wiser. Sound engineers have been pulling an artistic fast one on our ears and re-using audio bites over and over and over again. That sound of a truck passing, a floor creaking, or an incredible explosion? Yup, you’ve heard all of those sound effects before whether you realize it or not.
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Would it surprise you to know just how many of the sound effects used in TV and cinema today have been recycled over many decades? But if you were ever asked to describe the particular sounds used, you’d likely draw a blank.
When you walk out of a theatre, you and your friends can probably recount for hours the sights you just witnessed on the big screen.
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