{"id":47390,"date":"2025-09-24T14:30:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T14:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/24\/spooky-halloween-sounds-and-more\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T14:30:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T14:30:16","slug":"spooky-halloween-sounds-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/24\/spooky-halloween-sounds-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Spooky Halloween Sounds and More"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n\tNot long ago, Fred Armisen<\/a> was reminiscing about the sound-effect LPs he used to stock at the Chicago record store where he worked in the Nineties. These vinyl platters contained all kinds of sounds, ranging from Halloween-themed shrieks and moans intended for use in haunted houses to functional recordings of audiences clapping and laugh tracks. \u201cI just felt like there was an absence in my life of any new records like this,\u201d he says. \u201cMaybe it exists somewhere, but I hadn\u2019t seen any. Then I was like, \u2018Why don\u2019t I just make one?\u2019 And then once I made that decision, I tried to commit to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe result is 100 Sound Effects<\/a><\/em>, out Sept. 26 on the indie label Drag City. Armisen spent about a year recreating dozens of highly specific scenarios in recording studios in Los Angeles and Ireland. (The latter sessions happened when he was on location for season two of Netflix\u2019s Wednesday<\/a><\/em>, in which he plays Uncle Fester.) There are some spooky ghost sounds like the ones he first had in mind, but that\u2019s just the tip of the audio iceberg \u2014 he also staged scenes of people trying out instruments at a Guitar Center, people attending a small theater production, people going camping, car doors slamming, glasses breaking, basketballs bouncing, and many more. Armisen made most of these sounds on his own, working closely with engineer Darrell Thorp, and calling in additional voice work here and there from friends like Tim Heidecker, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Amber Coffman, and Alice Carbone Tench, as well as his wife, Riki Lindhome.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe album is dedicated to the late Steve Albini<\/a>, a friend from Armisen\u2019s punk days who helped recommend a studio space before his death in May 2024. \u201cSteve really facilitated the beginning of it, and he was a cheerleader,\u201d Armisen says. \u201cHe liked anything having to do with the recording of sound, and this was different enough that he was interested. He got it going.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tArmisen hopes that people in the entertainment business will make use of 100 Sound Effects<\/em> \u2014 not just to put it on for a laugh, although it is very funny, but also to help build out incidental sound cues in films and plays. He called Rolling Stone <\/em>to explain how he approached some of the key tracks from the eccentric project.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBand Sound Check Sound Guy and Band Agreeing for Too Long\u201d<\/strong>\t<\/h2>\n

\n\tThis happens all the time, where you do your sound check and there\u2019s nothing else to do. The sound person is behind the board, the band is still onstage on their mics, and they\u2019re having a conversation through the PA. It\u2019s everyone saying, \u201cThat sounds great.\u201d And then the sound person saying, \u201cYes, it does. I\u2019m happy. Are you happy?\u201d \u201cYeah, we\u2019re good.\u201d It\u2019s a tradition.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\u201cMusic Store Around Christmas\u201d<\/strong>\t<\/h2>\n

\n\tYou could either take a comedic approach and think, \u201cOh, it\u2019s funny when you walk through the Guitar Center and it\u2019s like this.\u201d Or you could treat it seriously: \u201cWell, I have a scene that I\u2019m shooting, and I need this character to walk through a music store, so we may as well use this track.\u201d It can be both.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\u201cCar Door Closing Car Rental\u201d \/ \u201cCar Door Closing Confident\u201d<\/strong>\t<\/h2>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s about how we close doors for different cars. If it\u2019s a car rental, I feel like people are timid about it. You don\u2019t want to hurt the car, and you\u2019re like, \u201cHow does this close?\u201d You\u2019re not sure if it\u2019s locked. And if it\u2019s your own car, you are very confident: \u201cI\u2019ve closed the door many times in this car.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd then there was one that was missing for a long time that I couldn\u2019t get [\u201cCar Door Closing 1958 Ford\u201d]. I actually was kind of stuck. I was like, \u201cI can\u2019t just conjure up a car.\u201d Then one afternoon I was like, \u201cI bet you I could find one.\u201d So I drove around, and I did. I got lucky. There was someone not too far away, they were pulling it into the driveway, and I stopped them and I said, \u201cHi, I record car doors.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\u201cSmall Theater Microphone Isn\u2019t Working\u201d<\/strong> \/ \u201cFake Booing\u201d\t<\/h2>\n

\n\tThere was one set of group pieces where I got some people together at the studio. Those were really fun. One is a small audience, but the microphone isn\u2019t working. You don\u2019t hear the person onstage. It\u2019s just people in the audience going, \u201cYour mic isn\u2019t working, your mic isn\u2019t working.\u201d There\u2019s also one where the audience is booing supportively, and another one where the booing sounds fake, like there\u2019s a director going, \u201cOK, everybody, boo.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\u201cBusinessman on Phone on Plane Before Takeoff \u2013 Work Tone\u201d<\/strong>\t<\/h2>\n

\n\tThe airplane ones required the most work. That\u2019s, like, layers of white noise. There are people chattering. Most of them are me, and then some people from the studio, and then I did the voice of the pilot making announcements. I didn\u2019t want to just go onto a plane and record, because it is a public space. It was really satisfying in the end.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\u201cRoom Service Lid\u201d \/ \u201cRoom Service Ooh\u201d<\/strong>\t<\/h2>\n

\n\tThat one really was at a hotel. My wife helped me out with this one. The sound of room service is very specific to me, the metal that covers the food. I think everyone experiences this. No matter what it is, you\u2019re like, \u201cOh, nice, there\u2019s food in the room.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\u201cHaunted House Ghost But Nobody Is Home\u201d<\/strong>\t<\/h2>\n

\n\tThose are some of the last ones I did. I tried to do real haunted mansion sounds, and then some that have a little bit of character to them. Because what happens when nobody is home \u2014 does a ghost still make all those noises? My guess is that they start. And then after a while, they\u2019re like, \u201cWhat are we even doing?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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