I stole my little brothers Axe body spray, and then recorded myself shooting it through a lighter. That stuff is ridiculously flammable. It makes a cool blow torch-y noise when it touches fire. I used that as the base of my rocket.

I recorded my gas stove turning on for a “thwump” kind of initial ignition noise. As well as more of my sibling’s various colognes into an open flame.

The other main piece was a recording of me sticking a microphone out the window while driving around to get that overloaded lowend sound (An idea which I stole from Ben Burt..)

It came out OK-ish I think for not being able to use library sounds.

All that said, I saw Cowboys and Aliens last night. They have an ICBM style launch sequence in it — which… Holy crap, it blew my freaking mind. My rocket sounds like a gentle breeze compared to their beastly creation. It had this insane midrange crunch. You could totally feel the heaviness of it.

It was freaking awesome. You should definitely check it out. That whole movie sounded cool.

Dunno if it’s exactly good, but.. that’s how I went about it anyway.

I tried adding some leathery/metal sounds for the reigns by twisting an old coax cable and shaking my car keys.

I’m really new to the recording thing, first time i actually “designed sound”. In hindsight I should have paid more attention to the volume of my sounds (especially in respect to each other, the babbling brook sound and the riccochet are almost inaudible).

It’s a lot of fun to listen to the other entries and try to imagine how they did it. My biggest lesson learned was how much little extra sounds can add to the ambience. Especially the galloping horse where most of the rest added little metal sounds and crunching of the grass (how did you do that btw?) was an eye-opener.

Gasp! I think you may be correct. I went so far as to build a fort out of bass traps around my toilet to record that sound. I thought I was a genius, but in the end.. Alas, thwarted by mic placement..

Incomplete scavenging!