UPDATE 02/07 – Free Download of Seussical Sound FX
Here’s a list of sound effects I prepared for Seussical the Musical. Most are called for in the score. Some of them are timed with the music so I prefer to have myself or one of the musicians trigger audio fx for the show.
I use Kontakt by Native Instruments which is a virtual keyboard for computer. I load my sounds into a laptop and program my sound effects across the keyboard – usually layered in sequence for when they occur in the show. Preproduction of audio effects is done on ProTools, where I have full control of high end delays, reverbs and panning. I run sound effects stereo and make sure the sound team is processing my sounds in stereo. I think it’s important to clarify whether you have a stereo setup available at your performance, because it will change how you pre-process your show sounds and foley.
Subtle sound effects add another subliminal layer of depth for any show presentation, so I encourage you to take the time to create them to the best of your ability. Having the actors do the fx like is “ok”, but take the time to make it super-duper cool.
SOUND EFFECTS FOR SEUSSICAL THE MUSICAL
Slide Whistle (you’ll get better samples than performing this live)
YOPP! (Jojo’s yell in Act II – I process multi-tap delay with panning, so it “calls across the universe”)
Elephant Call
Egg Hatching
Explosion
Water Splash (For the Cat’s sneeze onto the Planet of Who, my own twisted addition)
ACT II Entracte – Overture clangs and bangs
Thunderstorm (To add to ACT II melodrama string music)
Bird Chirp
Animal Grunts (For intro of Monkey Around, listen to CD)
Dog Bark “woof”
How much would you sell your sound effects for Seussical? Are you willing? Burn to disc or MIDI format.
200 million kazillion kabillion dollars.
OR, put a link on your school website to my site here, send me your email address and I’ll email you a zip file. Click “home” link top of page, then “contact” link on right hand side for my email address.
Hi !
We’re doing Seussical at the Faculty of Educaiton with the University of Western Ontario. We’d love to show off your sound effects and share you link :>
Thanks in advance,
Daryn Bee
Send me the link location and I’ll email the fx.
HI! My choreographer sent me information on your Seuss Sounds. We would love to use them for our show here in Brentwood New York.
Thanks!
Ed. Callaghan
Thank you for the sound effects download. What a time saver!!!!
Thanks Mark for encouraging me to get them posted. For everyone else, link to the sound effects download is at the top of this page, or go to: https://www.conradaskland.com/blog/2007/02/seussical-sound-effects/
HI!
We are opening a production of Seussical in August and would love to use your sound effects – I see that you have a zip file with the sounds in WAV format, but is there a way that I could get the files in MIDI? I have a keyboard that plays MIDI files, and I’ve tried taking your WAV files and converting them back to MIDI, but quality is definitly lost. Suggestions?
Thanks! Katie
Hi Katie,
I don’t understand what you’re trying to do. These are sound effects. If it was Midi, it would just be a single note playing – doesn’t make sense. These are sound effects you can have your soundman trigger live off a dj cd player – or you can input them into a virtual keyboard sampler and play live.
I played these sound effects live using Kontakt and mapped onto a virtual keyboard – accessed them live and in time from a keyboard.
Hi,
I’m doing sound for Seussical The Musical in Galway Ireland. Was looking for a few FX and stumbled on this page. You’re an absolute gentleman! Thanks for sharing.
Mike
Bless you – bless you!!!!!!!