whoooooosh-BOING!!! oooWEEEoooWEEEoooWEEE… SPLOP!! VRROOOOM--scrEEEEch!

April 20, 2014 7:45 AM

Here's 42 minutes and 27 glorious seconds of audio sound effects from Warner Bros. cartoons. And, should you want more (and of course you do), here's one hour and 17 seconds worth from Hanna Barbera studios.
posted by flapjax at midnite (16 comments total)

Looney Tunes SoundSource is home to many of my favorite Warner Bros. character audio clips.
posted by fairmettle at 8:09 AM on April 20, 2014 [3 favorites]

I'm just going to let this run in the background all Easter evening.
posted by pracowity at 8:36 AM on April 20, 2014 [4 favorites]

From the title, I thought this was going to be a post about old modems.
posted by Orinda at 10:08 AM on April 20, 2014 [2 favorites]

Looney Tunes SoundSource is home to many of my favorite Warner Bros. character audio clips.

I can't believe the have Daffy's "Mine! All mine!" quote. I've been looking for it on and off for years, thanks.
posted by Room 641-A at 10:09 AM on April 20, 2014 [1 favorite]

I could see reading some Don Martin to this
posted by thelonius at 10:23 AM on April 20, 2014 [3 favorites]

I just listened to the WB compilation all the way through, instead of going for a walk in the spring sunshine. No regrets.
posted by moonmilk at 11:03 AM on April 20, 2014 [2 favorites]

now I want to see how all of these were actually made ...
posted by philip-random at 11:43 AM on April 20, 2014 [1 favorite]

I would listen to a full album of this one
posted by aubilenon at 12:19 PM on April 20, 2014 [1 favorite]

I think I've found my new ring tone...
posted by jim in austin at 2:20 PM on April 20, 2014 [2 favorites]

When I was in college radio, in the long-ago 70s, I got access to a then-rare LP of Hanna-Barbara Sound Effects (distributed to selected radio stations for promotional purposes) and got my most brilliant creative idea. George Carlin's original "Seven Words You Can't Say on Television" was a big deal at the time and one radio station had gotten heavily fined for playing it at 1AM. So I took selected sounds from the Hanna Barbera collection and edited them into the Carlin monologue, substituting specific sounds for words (BONK for fuck, BOING for shit, SPLAT for piss, CLAPPITYCLAPPITY for motherfucker, etc.). Extreme bleepage. The college station had given me a timeslot opposite Dr. Demento because of my personal collection of weird records (I had previously met the Good Dr. with a short stack of vinyl - he found one he didn't have himself, borrowed it, taped it, returned it and aired it on his show) and the "Seven SFX" tape was a regular feature. Sadly, after I graduated and listened to Dr. D for the first time in over a year, I found that somebody else had copied my concept - with inferior non H-B sounds - and he was playing THAT. Sigh. I've long since lost my tape of the original, but I continue to insist to the world I thought of it first.
posted by oneswellfoop at 2:44 PM on April 20, 2014 [5 favorites]

So what is the legality of using these in projects? Are most of them out of copyright?
posted by OwlBoy at 6:03 PM on April 20, 2014

So what is the legality of using these in projects? Are most of them out of copyright?

I can’t figure out what it is at all. It says you can download "5 discs". What discs?
posted by bongo_x at 8:35 PM on April 20, 2014

These discs for H-B and these for Looney Tunes.

It's a commercial product, CDs full of the sound effects.
posted by mrbill at 9:14 PM on April 20, 2014

The "more" links on YouTube for the video descriptions have links to Mega fileshare copies of the MP3s from the disc sets.
posted by mrbill at 9:24 PM on April 20, 2014

So, just some jackass.
posted by bongo_x at 10:41 PM on April 20, 2014

philip-random: "now I want to see how all of these were actually made ... "

I previously had a vague idea about what's involved in foley work, but now I see that it would be the best job EVAR.
posted by wierdo at 12:28 PM on April 21, 2014 [2 favorites]