Whether you're a Foley artist working for a studio or yourself, chances are you’ve got the great equalizer on hand. He is tiny, square, and comes from the skin of the least terrifying creature on the planet. He is the leather chamois. jorcru reports
he squeezed a soaking leather shammy and let the water gush near microphones. He wrapped a leather shammy around some vegetables to mimic the sounds your bones make when they break inside your body. Soak one in water and stab at it, he suggests, to create the squelch noise of a knife penetrating human flesh.Midsommar
and wonder how Ari Aster achieved the breathy noises emitting from Will Poulter’s splayed-open lungs? That was courtesy of Foley artist Jay Peck, who soaked a shammy in water, stretched it tight across a concrete floor, and when it was suctioned down flat enough, pinched it in the middle and pulled it up slowly, creating a “huhhh” that sounds a lot like the intake of air.
Lest we make it seem like the chamois is only relevant to horror, take in its multi-genre power: When Shelly Roden at Skywalker Sound needed to make the sound of a puppet eating oatmeal, she, too, got out her wet chamois and squished it around as she sloshed oatmeal in a bowl with the other hand.
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