Favorite Raygun Sound Effect

[Herkimer Jitty]

Name your favorite raygun sound effect and emulate it

The Zat from Stargate SG-1: "bzz-WHUUUM"

 

[SG-17]

Name your favorite raygun sound effect and emulate it

The Zat from Stargate SG-1: "bzz-WHUUUM"

I concur.

 

[Canadave]

TIE Fighter turbolasers.

 

[Lowdarzz]

I always liked the sound effects for the blasters in Forbidden Planet and al the sound of the plasma rifle from Terminator 2. Both effects are very simple and effective.

 

[Silvercrest]

Name your favorite raygun sound effect and emulate it

The Zat from Stargate SG-1: "bzz-WHUUUM"

That sounds more like the staff weapon. The zat sounds more like an organ being played backwards.

Both near the top of my list, of course.

 

[Mistral]

Colonial lasers from original BSG-used to run around the house emulating them.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

1950's War of the Worlds energy weapon, a.k.a. Star Trek TOS photon torpedo.

 

[Christopher]

1950's War of the Worlds energy weapon, a.k.a. Star Trek TOS photon torpedo.

Those weren't actually the exact same sound effect, but two very similar ones. The sound of the WotW disintegrator bolts was softer and more muffled than the ST torpedo effect (which is a favorite of mine, but it doesn't quite as a raygun effect, though I'm sure it's been used that way elsewhere). They were both created by striking a high-tension metal cable. Ben Burtt used a similar technique to create some of the blaster sounds in Star Wars.

I was going to cite the WotW heat-ray, that high-pitched zee-zee-zee-zeoow sound, as one of my favorites (beginning at about 1:35 here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBPhji88AIw ). Reportedly, it's the reversed sound of three electric guitars.

I'm also rather partial to the sound effect of a Gallifreyan staser from Doctor Who's "The Deadly Assassin" (IIRC), which is the last sound in the medley of Doctor Who sound effects presented here:
http://www.unpleasant.org/wp-content/uploads/unpleasant/2008/02/drwho-tardisetc.mp3

 

[Admiral2]

Name your favorite raygun sound effect and emulate it

The Zat from Stargate SG-1: "bzz-WHUUUM"

Actually, the zat sounds like P-Tee-Tee-Towwww! to me. That effect is more the staff weapon sound.

Still, the zat's my favorite too.

 

[Starkers]

Dalek lasers...

 

[auntiehill]

Colonial lasers from original BSG-used to run around the house emulating them.

You beat me to it.

I LOVED that noise, especially when I was a kid.

 

[captcalhoun]

TNG+ phasers and the pulse phasers on the Defiant.

 

[C.E. Evans]

The dual hand lasers from The Black Hole. They had a very crisp, almost sizzling sound whenever a round was popped off.

 

[Mysterion]

Not a raygun I suppose, but the sound effects for light-sabers can't be beat.

 

[Obiwanshinobi]

The kind that goes "pew."

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

- Cylon raiders' weapons from the original Battlestar Galactica

- Visitor lasers from the original V

 

[Silvercrest]

^If you picked something that wasn't a laser beam, it would have been .... just wrong.

 

[FalTorPan]

The flying saucers' ray in Earth Vs. the Flying Saucers.

 

[GNDN]

Turbo Lasers at about 1:08 are pretty good.

As mentioned:
- Forbidden Planet
- Original V

Also:
- TWOK (the phaser that kills the Ceti Eel)
- Talosian beam/spray thing that knocks out Pike in The Cage

 

[Blip]

Optimus Prime's rifle from the 80s Generation 1 Transformers cartoon. Plus, he just looked cool when he was firing it.