How to Create Your Own Halloween Sounds

During the fall, you can visit just about any dollar store, party supply retailer, or go on line and find your owned pre-recorded cd or uploads of scary sounds. These tracks are great for Halloween parties or simply to play at the house to welcome trick or treaters at the doorstep. But most of these sounds can be recorded at home with a little creativity and imagination. A good cassette recorder or cd recorder will be all that is needed to create your own Halloween sounds for the big fright night when trick or treaters come to the door.

Scary Voices

Try and enlist the help of a few other participants to record some really devilish sounds whether they are the groans of a mummy, witch, or Frankenstein. Try to mix in a combination of the monsters and alter cackles and groans with different volumes to create the illusion the villains are moving around the "haunted house". Try and work in some word play from the witch adding such lines as "you'll never make from our house alive, my pretty". Then proceed with some spooky laughs.

Haunted Home Sounds

The word play of your different monster characters will instantly set the mood for the recording. The next part is to add some haunted house sounds. Find some squeaky doors to open and close if available. Try and slam a few doors in rooms that are tiled or wooden to enhance the full sound. Run an electric appliance such as a blender with ice cubes and work in a blood gurgling scream at the same time. If you have a chain saw or gas powered weed trimmer, even better.

Add to the gallery of fun home sounds by recording someone walking heavy on their feet down a tiled or wooden hallway opening and closing doors. Have them hold some chains rattling them infrequently.

Animal Sounds

There are plenty of good sounds that can be contributed by domestic and wild animals in the neighborhood. If your dog is a barker, feel free to add this recording to create a sense of anxiety as a nervous dog would do with an intruder lurking about. Another good canine contribution is to record an occasionally growl. Many dogs will naturally growl when tugging on a toy be it a stick or sock, use this opportunity to capture a growl that would assimilate to that of a werewolf or devil dog.

There are some good natural animal sounds one could capture during a summer or fall evening right in the back yard. One example could be cats fighting, raccoons bickering, or the hoot of an owl. Simple peaceful sounds such as crickets chirping actually work well in between the scary moments of the recording.

These are but a few useful examples of creative sounds to use when creating your own Halloween sounds. Simplify your tape with putting together a good thirty or sixty minute recording of a mixture of the sounds used above. Create a script or chronology of the sounds you want to use that would perhaps follow a story line or be indicative of those sounds found inside a haunted house.