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#190706 04/24/2010 4:55 PM
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Looking for word that refers to a sound made by a device that simulates real function sound from another device but actually has no function. This might be the shutter noise made by telephone camera

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Allo headblivit.

Do you mean the name of the sound or the name of the machine that imitates the sound?

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Do you mean like making the sound of thunder by shaking a sheat of metal?

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Do you mean like making the sound of thunder by shaking a sheat of metal?

If so, that is easy: foley after the guy who invented it.


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I think he's looking for the name of the machine that makes the (recorded?) noises. Foley walkers are people that shuffle about and make all kinds of background sounds, right?


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right

Yes, it's people with lots things to make noise with and recorders. I have a book on the subject called Foley Grail.

machine that makes the (recorded?) noisesv

Synthesizer?


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Looking for word that refers to a sound made by a device that simulates real function sound~~~~~~ from another device~~~~~~~ but actually has no function. This question; I only fully understand the first part.

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Perhaps a PM to the questioner to let him/her know there are
attempts to get to the answer, please respond in kind???


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Skeuomorph??

From the A.W.A.D. archives...


http://wordsmith.org/words/skeuomorph.html

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Quote:
Skeuomorph??
From the A.W.A.D. archives...
http://wordsmith.org/words/skeuomorph.html
Skeuomorph... stunned. It's alive!


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