seriously there are people who thought that was a gavel?
― El Tomboto, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:26 (sixteen years ago) link
are you deaf?
Belzer calls it a gavel in the USA promo.
― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Belzer's deaf, tho.
― HI DERE, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:32 (sixteen years ago) link
BADONKADONK
― elmo argonaut, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Not like a gavel, no. Unless it is a gigantic, hollow, sonorous gavel.
― Jesse, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Processed gavel sound, yes.
― Eazy, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Recorded up close but then mixed with a 'cathedral' setting.
gavel: chopped and screwed
― HI DERE, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:36 (sixteen years ago) link
I think there's a gavel in there and then a synth line added to go with it.
― Eazy, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:36 (sixteen years ago) link
to all those who say it is a gavel, I say:
RONG RONG
― elmo argonaut, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:37 (sixteen years ago) link
DUNG DUNG
― J0rdan S., Friday, 26 October 2007 17:38 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Alex in Baltimore, Friday, October 26, 2007 1:31 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
it was originally a gavel but the 9/11 commission in league with the vatican and the rand corporation covered it up & made it a jail door
― and what, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:38 (sixteen years ago) link
for the record, it's the sound of Det. Eliot Stabler slamming a child rapists' face twice into the table of the interrogation room.
― elmo argonaut, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:39 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^^^ someone put that to a bangin' techno beat plz
― HI DERE, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:39 (sixteen years ago) link
it's the sound Yoshi's tongue makes in Super Mario World.
― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:43 (sixteen years ago) link
BAN BAN
― and what, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:44 (sixteen years ago) link
special poppage unit
l&o virginal intent
Even though it is my own fault that my brain has made a link between Mariska Hargitay and Yoshi's tongue, I am still mad at you, Alex.
― HI DERE, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:45 (sixteen years ago) link
good Lord people it's CHUNG CHUNG, I thought you had to answer this question correctly before they give you a driver's license in most states
― J0hn D., Friday, 26 October 2007 17:51 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.joystiq.com/media/2006/05/goonies_truffleshuffle.jpghttp://www.joystiq.com/media/2006/05/goonies_truffleshuffle.jpg
― elmo argonaut, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:53 (sixteen years ago) link
All options here seem to suggest that it's the same sound both times! But there's a total difference in what MIDI would call, umm, velocity.
― nabisco, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:56 (sixteen years ago) link
I mean, it's got the same phrasing as "ch-ching," if instead of "ching" the root were "dung."
― nabisco, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:57 (sixteen years ago) link
This is my compy's "you f'ed up" sound. DUNG DUNG.
I just watched one last night about a writer in some blackmail circle, was surprisingly good. Second ep I've ever seen and fuck if I need another TV show to zone out to but there it is.
― Abbott, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:57 (sixteen years ago) link
nabisco, sorry, but the metrical rhythm of this sound is definitely spondaic, not iambic
― elmo argonaut, Friday, 26 October 2007 18:05 (sixteen years ago) link
QONG QONG
doesn't this sound out as "chung chung" in pinyin?
― gff, Friday, 26 October 2007 18:07 (sixteen years ago) link
I think you have that backwards elmo - "ch-ching" would be short-long/unstressed-stressed, in the theme the second beat is harder/longer = it's an iamb
― J0hn D., Friday, 26 October 2007 18:10 (sixteen years ago) link
You're right, Elmo, I'm remembering it backwards.
It's almost like a long delay/echo that's been truncated to just two sounds: DUNG-Dung (dung dung dung dung...)
― nabisco, Friday, 26 October 2007 18:10 (sixteen years ago) link
!!!! CONFUSION
― nabisco, Friday, 26 October 2007 18:11 (sixteen years ago) link
you're a dactyl
― remy bean, Friday, 26 October 2007 18:11 (sixteen years ago) link
also john and tokyo rosemary are right: it's CHUNG CHUNG.
― remy bean, Friday, 26 October 2007 18:12 (sixteen years ago) link
J0hn I think Elmo's right! First one shorter but more stressed: DA-dunnng
― nabisco, Friday, 26 October 2007 18:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Not quite. QENG QENG would be closer to "chung chung."
― jaymc, Friday, 26 October 2007 18:12 (sixteen years ago) link
there's absolutely nothing resembling a hard "ch-" sound in it.
― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 26 October 2007 18:13 (sixteen years ago) link
no no! both beats have the same emphasis! SPONDEE.
― elmo argonaut, Friday, 26 October 2007 18:13 (sixteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_&_Order#The_card.2C_and_the_sound
This is accompanied by a tone, which has been described as a "DUN dun" or "thunk thunk" sound. It was originally developed to sound like a barred door in a jail cell slamming shut (Law). In promos for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit reruns on the USA Network, actor Dann Florek refers to the sound as the "doink doink"[9], while Richard Belzer refers to it as the sound of a judge's gavel. According to IMDb.com, it "was created by combining close to a dozen sounds, including that of a group of monks stamping on a floor."
Tomboto was right.
― Eazy, Friday, 26 October 2007 18:14 (sixteen years ago) link
i'd call it KUNG KUNG tbh
― gff, Friday, 26 October 2007 18:15 (sixteen years ago) link
both beats have the same emphasis, elmo's right. it's just that first one's overwritten by the attack of the second one, which is allowed a slow decay.
― remy bean, Friday, 26 October 2007 18:16 (sixteen years ago) link
I definitely hear the first one shorter/more staccato but haven't counted the note values so you could be right
― J0hn D., Friday, 26 October 2007 18:17 (sixteen years ago) link
ARGH I thought you were saying it was trochaic.
I need to hear this now! I feel there is a definite variation between the two sounds -- length, obviously, but also MIDI velocity! I'm sure of it!
― nabisco, Friday, 26 October 2007 18:18 (sixteen years ago) link
nabisco: follow the link at the top of the thread?
― remy bean, Friday, 26 October 2007 18:19 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.audiologyillustrated.org/images/spondee.jpeg
― elmo argonaut, Friday, 26 October 2007 18:19 (sixteen years ago) link
If it were just length, the second one cutting off the decay/release of the first, it would sound like a stutter, and artificial. But it doesn't; it sounds more like an echo than a stutter -- the sounds are definitely shaped to be different, so they read naturally. The exact same sound triggered twice ... sounds like it.
― nabisco, Friday, 26 October 2007 18:20 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't have speakers, so I should probably be quiet for a while.
I think remy's closest - the 2nd one is allowed to decay, which in some ears (mine for example) make it sound like a much longer note
― J0hn D., Friday, 26 October 2007 18:21 (sixteen years ago) link
see, i don't hear them as notes, but as percussive beats that reverb and decay.
― elmo argonaut, Friday, 26 October 2007 18:24 (sixteen years ago) link
all audio for television is compressed to fuck because otherwise commercial breaks blow your speaker cones
so the first and second are exactly the same except that the compression bites off the decay of the first hit completely, making only the second hit sound sustained.
it's really not like a big fucking puzzle people. Although I am going to start telling people it's based on the I Ching for "incomplete" because it's used to remind viewers that the show is not over yet.
― El Tomboto, Friday, 26 October 2007 18:26 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, with a lot of reverb, the second sound will seem to persist longer, but i don't think they are different in any other way.
― gff, Friday, 26 October 2007 18:26 (sixteen years ago) link
oh wait never effing mind, I am dumb, I'm talking about the opening notes of the theme song. Which are to me "the Law and Order sound." Y'all are talking about the interstitial/chapter-change sound. I think those have identical note values (percussive beats are also notes!) and emphases.
― J0hn D., Friday, 26 October 2007 18:27 (sixteen years ago) link
DONT MAKE ME HURT YOU... YOURE JUST JEALOUS OF HER BEAUTY!!!!
― and what, Monday, 29 October 2007 17:29 (sixteen years ago) link
omg
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Monday, 29 October 2007 17:32 (sixteen years ago) link
I can't watch SVU at all because Meloni is permanently typecast in my mind as the camp cook in WHAS
I wish I had sound right now
― El Tomboto, Monday, 29 October 2007 17:33 (sixteen years ago) link
SVU is almost always this awesome.
― HI DERE, Monday, 29 October 2007 17:37 (sixteen years ago) link
haha that whole thing was just a setup to get meloni out of the episode!
― gff, Monday, 29 October 2007 18:31 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.cookcountycourt.org/images/1.gif
― Jesse, Monday, 29 October 2007 18:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― ILX System, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 00:01 (sixteen years ago) link
and the end of the clip the letter M calls the sound "chung chung"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2CSkLR6mUQ
― jbsquared, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 00:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― ILX System, Thursday, 1 November 2007 00:01 (sixteen years ago) link
i just walked by another Law & Order shoot this morning and when passing the crew suppressed an almost irresistible urge to shout "DUNH DUNH!" at them.
― sanskrit, Thursday, 1 November 2007 13:49 (sixteen years ago) link
haha
― rrrobyn, Thursday, 1 November 2007 14:17 (sixteen years ago) link
"other" was robbed. none of the given options were right.
― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 1 November 2007 14:18 (sixteen years ago) link
¡Tchkung!¡Tchkung!
― dan m, Thursday, 1 November 2007 15:05 (sixteen years ago) link
it's "DUNG GUNK" obv
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 1 November 2007 15:15 (sixteen years ago) link
BUNKUM
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 1 November 2007 15:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Minus the Spanish exclamation points, this looks like a Wade-Giles transliteration of a Pinyin version already mentioned.
― jaymc, Thursday, 1 November 2007 15:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Kraftwerk to thread!
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 1 November 2007 15:57 (sixteen years ago) link
ny times weighs in http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/arts/television/04kant.html?_r=1&ref=arts&oref=slogin
― mizzell, Saturday, 3 November 2007 14:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Great is the truth and it prevails
― gabbneb, Saturday, 3 November 2007 15:49 (sixteen years ago) link
need an iphone app for this
― Kramkoob (Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃), Friday, 10 October 2008 15:30 (fifteen years ago) link
BIG HOOS
― jigglepanda.gif (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 10 October 2008 15:40 (fifteen years ago) link
hahaha how did I miss "FART BATH" before
― al kaline trio (dan m), Friday, 10 October 2008 15:54 (fifteen years ago) link
'shump shump'
― akm, Friday, 10 October 2008 16:11 (fifteen years ago) link