Ymir's roar

Here's the scoop. The adult (larger) Ymir's roar is the same effect used for the bellowing cyclops,. When I was a teenager, I was working at a huge miniature golf course in Myrtle Beach South Carolina, and I heard the Cyclops bellowing in the arcade down the street!!!

On my break I went to track the sound down, and discovered the bellowing was coming from a shooting gallery. If you hit the bear or the lion or the tiger you would hear the cyclops sound effect.

I asked the guy working there where he got the sound effect and he said it was created on the premises...AND IT WAS!!!! There was an old crank siren, the kind from the early twentieth century, that had a hand crank on it and when you began to rotate that crank, the "roar" or, in this case "siren" would slowly start up....the faster you'd crank, the higher the the pitch. So...

You start off slow and it is a growl....faster and it becomes a great roar...and faster still, and it becames a gutteral scream.

They had this thing hooked up to a motor which would automatically drive the shaft in one revolution in about a second. Slow...faster...then slow...stop.

RRRRRRRROOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.

Anyway this is EXACTLY how the sound effects department at Columbia must have done this...just I am sure they "hand cranked" it. You have never heard that distinctive voice from anything but the ymir and cyclops.. It was just something that whoever created the sound effects came up with, knowing that a hand cranked siren could be used for something else other than a screaming voice of doom in an air raid.

And if I had never worked the kiosk at that miniature golf course, I never would have been privy to that information.

Eat your heart out, Sherlock Holmes.

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