Good foley studios are littered with everything from sod, gravel, pavement, and other surfaces to garden rakes and kitchen utensils. This category is for the strange, unique, bizzarre, or just plain effective techniques you have used to generate foley sounds.
Me and a friend of mine had to do a whole movie full of foley on our current university project, and we found that pouring potatoes into a cardboard box makes a good horse running sound. and also, a thud on top of a kicked newspaper makes an exceptional punching sound
I recorded peeling strips of thick tape off a window and then used that to modulate a high-frequency saw wave. It made a very convincing electricity or zapping effect, like in the old 1930′s “mad scientist” movies.
@David I would love to hear it. Please feel free to put links to audio files in your comments. Thanks!
Sure thing! You can hear it at http://www.mediafire.com/?bjpt1mh6ucmxozl.