Neil Hampson Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 I an now fast running out of time (and patience with internet searching)... I need a small sound effect of a bull snorting or ideally snorting and kicking up sand scraping the floor, as if preparing to take a run up in a bullfight, Think Cartoon! I originally thought this would be easy to find but I just cannot get anything like. I have tried my local libaries selections of BBC SFX discs, joined a few forums (including the freesound project, which in honesty is pretty good, just not for bovine related samples) and am now sick of google/altavista and limewire searches, I even tried youtube for any cartoons that could have used the sound, Speedy Gonzalis etc. I just don't know where to go next, I am very dubious of the sites that sell Sfx at about £7 a go without a proper sample but if that's what it takes... Can anyone help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john-sp Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 Hi,Back in the dim and distant past I used to make up show tapes for a professional puppet company and used to get requests for some very odd effects - the sound of bagpipes being stabbed springs to mind! The only way of doing it was to record my own effects. It's normally not too difficult, I used to use a couple of mics straight into a Revox B77 - that will show how long ago it was! The fun part is trying to think up a way of creating the sound you want. Try to think slightly laterally, in this case try slowing down the effect of a horse snorting, or snort yourself and play around with that. You could have a go at scraping some different surfaces with the old favourite half coconut, adding a few taps for the pawing effect. If you listen on headphones while trying this it can help visualise (auralise?!!) what the effect will sound like on playback. I always used to have a ball wandering around the theatre hitting, tapping and scraping things trying to find the sound I wanted. You could then upload your result to the Freesound Project to allow other the fruits of your work! Good luck and enjoy being creative, John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soundo26 Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 Try this place www.audiosparx.com/sa/display/sounds.cfm/sound_group_iid.646 - 315k - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackerr Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 I agree with the idea of recording your own. Unfortunately I no longer have them as I turned them over to the designer I recorded them for, but I recently recorded a lot of horses snorting and stamping using a Zoom H4 and a Sennheiser MKH60. It is a terrific SFX recording system as it is very small, and battery powered. The XLR input on the H4 had no problem powering the MKH60. I spent an hour or two wandering around the barns and paddocks and had a good variety of sounds. Mac Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.elsbury Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 What does a bull snorting sound like? Would your audience be able to tell if you substituted, for example, a horse? Maybe pitch shift it down a bit? My point is is that everyone has expectations of what certain things sound like. You couldnt' trick them on what an aeroplane sounds like, for example. But I would be hard pressed to tell if your SFX was actually a bull... so long as it sounds like what I think a bull should sound like. HTH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Hampson Posted May 24, 2008 Author Share Posted May 24, 2008 I will have a go and try a DIY effect, starting with the horse as a basis, I am unfortunatly by no means a sound tech, I only ever offer to do any sound for this particular job each year. As regarding David's comment, I honestly don't know what a bull sounds like, I was rather hoping when I started searching that I would download a few SFX until somthing came up that just 'sounded right' I don't think I've ever heard the noise I'm trying to reproduce, and so I suppose it's a resonable assumption that neither will the audience Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johndenim Posted May 25, 2008 Share Posted May 25, 2008 I don't what kind of quality you need but have found a few for free, not quite what you want but hey, maybe of use? http://www.sounddogs.com/results.asp?Type=...SubcategoryID=9 John Denim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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