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• --- Authentic rodent agony sounds ---
• #!/usr/bin/anonymous (2021-02-03 00:25 ID:Ogj+XrYQ )
• I'm programming a game in Lisp. How can I get some authentic rodent agony sound effects? \n\n
• Anonymous Techie (2025-12-24 12:14 ID:5RKpASIo )
• By a funny coincidence, at the time you posted this I was also recording pain sounds for space rat enemies for a game. I recorded myself making agony sounds and other squeaks, then pitched them up and layered them together.
• For sound effects in games and cartoons and movies, you usually don't want to find “authentic” sounds, it's more about how it feels. Try to find something more visceral and exaggerated. Like really crunchy celery being snapped for broken bones, or dropping wet sloppy cereal for gore. \n\n
• Anonymous Techie (2025-12-24 18:20 ID:NTStvCfY )
• just torture a rodent and record it anon its not rocket science \n\n
• Anonymous Techie (2025-12-29 17:16 ID:apWKM7fh )
• >>3 No. It won't cut the mustard. You know how in movies, if they need a cow, they get a horse and paint it black and white, because they look more like cows on film than cows do? It's the same with sound design. Torturing a rodent is also immoral. \n\n
• Anonymous Techie (2025-12-29 23:26 ID:NTStvCfY )
• >>4 perhaps you could torture something larger than a rodent and then pitch shift the recording up. \n\n
• Anonymous Techie (2026-01-01 07:41 ID:WHDjGl4e )
• Tried doing a quick search for foley archives.
• But that didn't work as well as I had hoped, since apparently some people just name their regular library "Foley."
• So I searched for foley audio archives and found a couple. \n\n This one has some promising titles searching for "rat," maybe those will work?
• https://www.zapsplat.com/?s=rat
• For something more graphic, you can mix it with other stuff like >>2's suggestions. \n\n
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