Studio Recording Bell Sound Effect

What has generally been used IN films is just a fire bell, same as some burglar alarm bells and school bells. If you don't have any then try SoundDogs.com and do a search.

BTW whatever you find will probably not match the timing you need, never has for me. The "trick" to changing them is that the start and end are important, but the middle stays the same. So cut out some of the middle to shorten and loop some of the middle to lengthen. If you just cut off the end to shorten it won't sound right.
 
ChristianMoriarty said:
http://youtu.be/gl9Lzs487Ac
Remote Audio
why not use the real thing?
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Well for one thing the OP may not have a working sound stage available for handy recording. For another there probably are a lot of "real" things. There isn't a lot of reason to have a bell or really anything that makes noise on a sound stage door. I suspect that most don't have anything like that, but do have a "do not enter" lit sign of some sort. Big sliding doors often have some kind of noisemaker so that people know to get out of the way so that may be where the idea came from.

So when you say "real thing" you are talking about a film convention that may well not exist in actual practice.

I have not been on a lot of big sound stages, but I have been on a lot of recording stages and I have never heard any sound making thing to alert people when recordings are about to start.
 
The sound I posted is what I have heard on TV location drama shoots in the UK and is basically a doorbell with a battery pack on it.

It tends to be sounded to indicate the end of a take as the clapper board and usual turnover / mark it etc are the signal of the start of a take.
 
it’s the things that people know that ain’t so
Scott,
my guess was that he needed a Sfx spotted for a short film
the link was a reference rabbit hole, so as to define said effect
 
Yeah, sound effect for a short film. Not for actual production use.


Noiz2 said:
What has generally been used IN films is just a fire bell, same as some burglar alarm bells and school bells. If you don't have any then try SoundDogs.com and do a search.

BTW whatever you find will probably not match the timing you need, never has for me. The "trick" to changing them is that the start and end are important, but the middle stays the same. So cut out some of the middle to shorten and loop some of the middle to lengthen. If you just cut off the end to shorten it won't sound right.
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We searched "Fire Bell" on Freesound.org and found this: https://www.freesound.org/people/jameswrowles/sounds/323238/

Which I think is the one the editor went with. Thanks!
 
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