A commercial was released by Blockbuster in 1994: "This was to be the year.Related to Broken Record, a gag based on the Repetitive Audio Glitch that happens when a vinyl record gets a scratch and starts to skip and repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat. Can be used to accompany a humorous Double Take. When it's Background Music going silent, see Sudden Soundtrack Stop. Depending on the circumstances, the Moment Killer may be responsible. Do not confuse with Musicalis Interruptus. You're probably wondering How We Got Here."Ī variant is Letting the Air out of the Band, which happens when you cut the juice to the rotation motor without jerking the needle. Incidentally, while questions did emerge in the '90s and most of the 2000s regarding younger generations' ability to discern what exactly the sound effect was meant to be, the Vinyl Revival (which began the same year this very page was created, funnily enough) brought vinyl records back into the public consciousness to enough of an extent for the source of the record scratch sound to be just as easily identifiable to the youth of today as to generations prior.Ī commonly cited gag pairs the record scratch with a Freeze-Frame Introduction, followed by the character explaining in voiceover, "Yep, that's me. In spite of how easy it is to synthesize the sound, it's insanely hard to organically produce this noise using an actual record player, and it's depressingly easy to permanently damage an album or the player itself, so Do Not Try This at Home, at least for any records you care about. Please note that if you wish to use the sound in a bit of your own, just buy ( or get ) a prerecorded version. The most used record scratch sound is a track on the Sound Ideas General 6000 library labelled "STEREO, TURNTABLE - NEEDLE SCRATCHING RECORD, RECORD PLAYER 02". With the sound of a phonograph needle being pulled violently across a vinyl record, the Background Music, along with everything else, comes to a screeching halt. Suddenly, something shocking happens, disrupting the action and going off somewhere totally unexpected. The plot is moving at a predictable pace toward a foregone conclusion. The Modern Humorist, "Movie Trailer Cliché Theater"
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