Sound FX Tropes

An index of tropes about sound effects.

See also Stock Sound Effects.

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Tropes:

• Acoustic License
• Arcade Sounds
• Audible Gleam
• Audible Sharpness
• Audience Murmurs
• Audio Diegesis
• Automated Dialogue Recording
• Bang, Bang, BANG
• Big Honking Traffic Jam
• Bomb Whistle
• Bug Buzz
• Ceiling Banger
• Censored for Comedy
• The Coconut Effect
• The Croc Is Ticking
• Doom Doors
• Everything Is an Instrument
• Fake Loud
• For Doom the Bell Tolls
• Flashback... Back... Back...

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• Flatline
• Gale-Force Sound
• Glass-Shattering Sound
• Hair-Trigger Sound Effect
• Hearing Voices
• Hell Is That Noise
• Hey, It's That Sound!
• Hollywood Silencer
• Idea Ding
• Jackhammered Conversation
• Jungles Sound Like Kookaburras
• Kabuki Sounds
• Kinetic Clicking
• Knuckle Cracking
• Kung-Foley
• Laugh Track
• Letting the Air Out of the Band
• Limited Sound Effects
• Losing Horns
• Loud Gulp
• Make Me Wanna Shout
• Make Some Noise
• DarthWiki.Most Annoying Sound
• SugarWiki.Most Wonderful Sound
• Nails on a Blackboard
• Noisy Guns
• Noisy Robots
• Offscreen Crash
• Open Sesame
• Plot-Based Voice Cancellation
• Previews Pulse
• "Psycho" Strings
• Quaking with Fear
• Quieter Than Silence
• Radio Voice
• Recognizable by Sound
• Record Needle Scratch
• Repetitive Audio Glitch
• Rimshot
• Scare Chord
• Screeching Stop
• Shell-Shock Silence
• Signature Sound Effect
• Sinister Scraping Sound
• Sinister Whistling
• Sound-Effect Bleep

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• Sound of No Damage
• Space Is Noisy
• Stock Audio Clip
• Stock Scream
• Stuka Scream
• Sound Defect
• Terrible Ticking
• That Poor Car
• That Poor Cat
• Tick Tock Terror
• Unsound Effect
• Walkie-Talkie Static
• Wacky Sound Effect
  • Squeaky Eyes
• Whoosh in Front of the Camera
• Wink "Ding!"
• Wolf Whistle

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