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Most sound effects you hear in movies and TV are cartoonish caricatures of real sounds (that&#8217;s part of why shots sound so unpolished when you hear them with the actual field audio).<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epicsound.com\/sfx\/\" target=\"_blank\">list of some sound effects and how to make them<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-623\" title=\"Biff!  Bam!  Oof!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.modd3d.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/pow.jpg\" alt=\"Biff!  Bam!  Oof!\" width=\"317\" height=\"226\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When recording your own sound effects for things, your first instinct is probably to stick a microphone by the actual thing you are trying to create an effect of. Sometimes this works, but other times there is too much other noise or it&#8217;s dangerous or implausible and sometimes it just plain sounds wrong. 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