S4 E57 - Moans, Groans, and Microphones

0:00 Hey, this is Kazza. This is Jules. And this is Smudge. And you're listening to Quincast, where we have chats about audio erotica and empowerment through desire. And we take you behind the scenes with the pros shaping the industry. Settle in. Things are about to get spicy and uncensored. As always, big love to our sponsor, Betty, of WhatBettyMade.com. She makes amazing stickers. And yes, there's a whole Quincast collection made just for you. Cute, chaotic and dangerously easy to justify buying. Check her out at whatbettymade.com. Also in today's episode, don't forget to listen out for the latest delicious instalment of Peaching It Real with Peaches. Am I late?

1:07 Nice of you to join us for the recording today, Smudge. What the fuck happened? I just had to run up two flights of stairs. You live in a bungalow. Yeah, that's not adding up. Okay, well, maybe they weren't real sound effects. Maybe they were actual sound effects. Because, you know, what's the episode about, ladies? SFX! Talking about sound effects, baby! Woo! Endless, endless hours of deliberation on how I segment into every episode. It's so true. You spend hours and hours. Oh dear, yeah, seconds and seconds. We spent minutes. This was one of the first subject matters we ever said that we were going to cover on a Queencast episode and it was SFX and we had all these great ideas about, we're just going to come in and we'll have a bowl of water and some mops and squeegees and and implements and chains and everything and we'll make our own sound effect episode and then we went do you know what.

2:08 No it's a lot of fucking work the podcast is already a lot of work labor of love but a lot of work so. What we thought we'd do is we'd let other people you know do the hard work of the sfx and we would just talk. About it love it we are so efficiently brilliant. Sfx i feel it's going to be a could be a contentious subject what do you think. It could be. My overall thoughts are they're good if they're done well in anything. And I'm talking movies to audio erotica to TV to anything. Really? That's a groundbreaking opinion. Everything. I was going to add everything in moderation.

2:48 Yeah. I mean, the sky is blue. I'm fucking sure. Minutes I spent on that. Minutes. If they're done well, they're good. So today we're talking about SFX. So we're going to talk about SFX, obviously, and audio erotica. What types make an audio? What types break an audio? The varying opinions. We've got some opinions from you, Clitizens. We've certainly got our own opinions, of course. And we brought a couple examples of some really good ones in our personal opinions, because again, it's subjective. And we each have some opinions on some not so good ones we'll talk about. So shall we dive in? Shall we? Yeah, and, Clitizens, we will not be talking about how the sausage is actually made, so don't worry about that. Listening, okay?

3:33 Good call. No SFX spoilers here. No. That's right. So we have on, in Audio Erotica. There's certainly audios that have no SFX. So that's their own little category, which we will not be covering because we're talking about how the actual SFX makes the audio or how it enhances it or how it detracts from it. So yeah, we each had like a couple kind of categories, if you will, of sex SFX versus just like regular SFX that we were going to bring to the table and pull some clips of ones that we felt were good from our personal perspective. So my assignment was, of course, smooch cooching. And kissing. Jules, what was your assignment? Mine was the art of the blowjob and the actual act of sex. So the air humping portion was my duty.

4:21 The plapping. The plapping. Smudgy, what did you investigate? Shockingly, I investigated the world of BDSM sounds. No. I know. The sky again is blue. I don't even know how I came to choose that one. But yeah, so that's what I'll be delving into. The chains, the spanking, the everything. But where do we start? Do we start with the cooch, the cock, or the cuck? It kind of works. Well, I want to know first, how do you guys feel? I know we all say that we like them if they're good, but do you have any specific type? I love kissing sounds. I love that in audio erotica. It's super immersive. I like subtlety in mine.

5:07 Yeah. So I don't like anything too loud, which is crazy because I'm a very loud person. I like background music. I like rain. I like thunderstorms. I like all that stuff. So what about you guys? I like that too. It depends on the audio, right? Like there are some that it depends on the scene that the voice actor is creating, like how intimate is the scene, meaning like just even the storyline. I'm not a huge fan of like overly cinematic audios because just for me, it like, It's too much for my brain to focus on. And so like the big overproductive kind of cinematic ones don't really do it for me. But I do love like good use of certain kind of like sound effects, like you said, like thunderstorms or less is more to a certain degree.

5:58 And we'll talk about that with when we get into our examples. But what about you, Smudgy? What's your overall take on SFX? I'm the complete opposite. I don't like kissing. in it because okay I don't think I've found any audio that I like and listen have listened to that has a decent kiss in it it's all over exaggerated it's all sloppy it's too much whereas I like the subtlety of I'm just coming in for a kiss and maybe the lightest sound you know that because I just think all this you know you know that is just takes me completely out of it Background noise for me, if there's some subtle rain in the background, because I find that very relaxing. I like that. But if it goes on all the way through, if there's a fire crackling the entire way through, my brain will isolate the fire. That's how my brain works. So I will just fixate on that fire and it takes me away from everything else.

6:57 Same if there's music all the way through an audio. No, no, no, no. No, if there's music in the background of an audio all the way through, I just can't deal. Right, so that's just how different this is. Yep. Because music doesn't bother me, but if there's a clock the entire time and I'm just going tick, tick. Like ticking? Yeah, ticking. And I'm just, that's all I'm doing is I'm, in my head it's just tick, tick, tick, tick. Yeah. Not dick, dick, dick, dick. Like, come on now. That was silly. That was good. Dick cock, dick cock, dick cock. Dick clock. Dick cock, dick cock. Oh, that was good. But like you said, three very diverse opinions there. Yeah, totally.

7:37 Yeah. We'll talk about it when we get to the examples. But yeah, like with the kissing thing, yeah, I want it to sound like kind of natural, but I want it to sound like kind of passionate, intimate. But that doesn't mean it has to be like loud and sloppy. But it also, as you guys have heard me say before, I don't want it to sound like a peck. Like there are some audios where it just sounds like someone's like kissing their grandmother on the cheek, which is like the squeaky peck. For me, it takes me right out because I'm like, oh my God, it just seems like you don't feel passionate about this person at all because you wouldn't do a squeak peck. Yes, yeah. But then, like you said, the yuck, the yum thing, massively in play with SFX. I think it's probably one of those things that separates people in the AE community is whether you like it, how much you like, what you like. And I get the whole building the world experience. And I think if you're doing a, you know, a Bridgerton style one and you've got the sound of the carriage going down the cobblestones and streets, fine. But I don't need to have violins playing in the background the whole entire time. There are certain ones where I've listened to and I've gone, fucking hell, that sounds like I was doing it. Yes.

8:54 Yes. It's so varied. But you're right. They're so varied and individuals' experiences of them is so varied. When I first found audio erotica, there were a lot of audios that, obviously just the ones I was listening to, that there was like no SFX when it came to like the actual act of sex. Yes. Like there was no claps. There was no like anything that I was like. And it was fine until I heard differently. And I was like, oh, wait a minute. This is a whole different experience. Yes. Even when I was doing research for this, I looked up to see if there were any playlists on Quinn. I just didn't have a chance to go to other platforms to look. But I looked to see if they had like no SFX playlists. They did have one that was for oral and it was just no SFX for oral. Yeah, they have a whole playlist, guys. Wow. A entire playlist that's little to no oral sounds.

9:46 But there's oral in the story. Yes. I mean, you can because you can say, you can describe it. So it's a descriptive rather than the SFX. So I quite I quite enjoy those types. That's, I would favorite that over some sloppy mouth sounds, you know, with just the narrative of, you know, take me deeper, darling, you know, that type of, and you know it's happening and you picture it in your head. Yeah. See, I want the sounds. Why don't we play some clips? Shall we? Jesus, we're talking about it. We're talking about oral. So maybe, uh, I'll start. With oral then. That was my assignment. So I have two very short clips. So the first one, I mean, when we're talking about cooch smooching and oral, you have to say a naughty, or at least I have to say a naughty one because Jesus, it just would have been absolutely blasphemous to not. I mean, let's be real. Okay, here we go.

10:41 Mmm. Mmm. Mmm. Mmm. I want it all. I want to cut it all. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm not even. That man worships the fucking pussy. Jesus. That, Jules, that's it. Like, it's not even so much... I mean, yes, it's the SFX that he does. But also, his SFX for oral always includes, like, desperate, eager... When you listen to his audios, like, they're almost all just oral.

11:22 Oh, yeah. So his... He loves it so much. And I think that's part of it for me. It's like. It's not, he's not going through any kind of motions. He fucking loves it. And so, yeah, it's his hunger that he conveys so well. He is good though, isn't he? I mean, he's mastered it. Oh, yeah. It's like, I can hear, you know, hear how turned on the listener is, but it's not drinking a bowl of soup. Right. You know. Yes. You can hear how turned on the listener is. You can hear how turned on he is and how much he's enjoying it. I should say, clitizens, this is from Friday Mess. by a naughty fun which i loved a little um the description for the audio is i'm just a man standing in front of a woman asking her to sit on his face.

12:03 See if that would have been the line in notting hill it would have right oh done better. I love him so much and it's also the audio that i'm sure you all know that when he says if you were a fruit you'd be a fine apple. Oh, a naughty fuzz. You know I love fuzz. But he also sounds like he's got a mouthful. The realism is for me. Yes. The realism. He sounds like he's down there and his tongue's moving around and he's sucking everything in and lapping everything up. So it sounds very real. Exactly. Versus other... I mean, I have one other example. Actually, this is a good segue so much because you just said he's in there doing things.

12:44 Yes. The other short clip I got is from Sarah. It's from Like One of Your French Girls. And she, you'll hear the difference. Mmm. Mmm. Mmm. Mmm. For fuck's sake. Like, for fuck's sake, you know exactly what she's doing. Like the tongue action is what you can hear in that. You can hear the variations of where she's going with that tongue too. Exactly. Right? So it's like subtler, but there's like, it's good.

13:25 It's good. What would we class as bad cooch mooching? Oh, I've heard some bad. Yeah. We also got a lot of clitizen comments that were surrounding this topic. We put out a questionnaire on our story. Just about what our clitizens like, might not like about sound effects. We got a lot of great, great responses. And something that kept popping up is if the oral sound effects are too slurpy. The word slurpy came up about five different times. Yeah, because I have heard audios with like slurping to the point of like, is there a bowl of chicken noodle soup in my crotch? It's like a dog at a puddle. I'm like, what are you doing?

14:05 Apparently, that's how the sausage is made. Sorry, Clipsons. I lied earlier. Yeah. That's what it is. Chicken soup. Oh, chicken soup. Yeah. I agree. Yeah, I agree. I know there are some people that love that. Absolutely love that sound. Who? Just kidding. We're not yucky gnomes, but have that the soup if you want the soup. But it distracts me to the point that I can't, I have to fast forward it or just stop listening to it. Scientific question here. Do we like certain things because that's what we've experienced and heard ourselves? And it's the closest representation of what we've heard. So we are attracted to that. Or are we looking for something that we think is right, but we've never had? I'm just going by my body's reaction. So I'm not comparing it to anything. Like for me personally, when I'm aroused by something, it's not because it's a memory for me.

14:53 But I hear what you're saying. It's a good question. It's not a memory for me necessarily. It's just my body tells me like, I like that. I don't know. I've never thought about that. That's a good question. There's like a lot of things, like I love nipple play sound effects. Like just, I just love it because I think it's subtle and there's not enough of it. So when it happens, I just love, love it if it's done right. But I've never been like, ooh, I just heard what it sounds like when my partner's doing it to me. Like, I've never put myself in it. So, yeah, I don't think I do either. I questioned it when we said we were going to do this episode. I questioned why I liked certain sounds. And is it because of maybe porn movies over the years that I've seen or heard things in or movies, you know, things like that. Or whether it's been scenes that I've partook in myself. Mm-hmm. Because I have partook in scenes where I've videoed it and I've played it back.

15:43 So I was just curious to understand why we like something. Well, see, it's funny because it actually kind of ties back into the conversation when we were talking with Julianne Conn about the aphantasia scale or whatever. Yes. When I'm hearing these SFX, I'm not seeing a movie in my head. I am responding to it based off of my physical visceral reaction. Yes. And so when I hear it, I go, okay, my body's telling me I like this. So yeah, so maybe for someone who sees the apple, maybe it's more that smudge. Maybe they are seeing a past experience they had. And so they're like, the correlation is making them enjoy it more. For me, it's more just about feeling. So yeah, it could be.

16:23 Yeah, I'm the same because I'm the same. I feel it. So I just go on how it makes my body react. Yeah. Same. Yep. From clitizens. Love oral SFX, except they have to be done right. Sometimes it gets a bit too much. Super slurpy slurps. No. And I even heard one. I can't remember the audio and it's fine because we wouldn't name and shame, but it was like they were drinking from a straw. So they were like, what is happening? And then they start humming the Star Spangled Banner and fucking ruin it. I mean, that's never happened to me. What are you talking about? That's not a real story. What are we going to next? I think we covered cute smooching. I mean, I could talk about it all day, but we can move on. Me too. Should we go to oral number two, which is Le Blowjob?

17:07 Yeah. So first, I'm going to be honest about this. I'm not a huge fan of blowjob sounds in audios. I actually don't think they're in there as often as I thought they were, though. When I was looking at audios, I like the subtle ones. Some people love it. If there's gagging sounds or it sounds like they're using a flashlight, I'm done. I can't do it. I can't do it. It takes me so out of it. And I just can't. It's just not for me. And I mean, gagging can be hot, but I don't like hearing it in audio for some reason. It's just not for me. So I like when it's more subtle, like really subtle. So mine, I chose the one and only Cavern Kingston. And this is Get On Your Knees.

18:03 That's it. That's it. Oh, yeah. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. What was he sorry for? So he goes on to say, did I tell you you were done? Did I tell you you were done with my cock in your mouth? Grab your circle. Yeah, and there is, I know I just said I don't like the gagging thing. There is a teeny, like a small little sound where you can tell the listener's going deeper, but it's so subtle. So actually, maybe, Smudge, you were right, because... maybe i was thinking a little bit about how i when i'm with my partner like how i might do it maybe yeah um but it might be too subtle for some people. Yeah i mean i barely heard it yeah it's super.

18:43 Subtle if i just heard that clip and you didn't tell me what it was i wouldn't have had any idea no really yeah like it doesn't it could have been any part of any sfx of any audio. 100 yeah that's what i'm saying about the verbal like if he'd have said something like no, no, no, open wider, take it deeper, stuff like that, then you know that it's happening and that I'm all fucking on board for. Love that shit. Talk me through it. Tell me. But he didn't do that until like right at the end. So I was with Kazza on that. I couldn't, you wouldn't be allowed to tell me that that was a blowjob. Wow. Yeah. I'm like, really? And I was just like, oh yeah, it's in our mouth right now. It totally is. I mean, I guess if I listen to the audio, it just has an isolated clip.

19:26 Oh, yeah, exactly. It's an isolated clip. I'm like, I don't know what this is. But it speaks to how subtle it. Is, right? Which is what you like. Yeah. And so, sorry, the next one is also very subtle, but I actually like this one. Why are you apologizing for your needs and your desires? Yeah, shut the fuck up. You like subtle. Shut up. Thank you. The next one is from Dolph, and it's an MM, and it's After Hours with Coach. And he's like doing narration. So it's like he's giving a blowjob, but he's narrating it. Take it so well. I can take it so well for him. I bet he can handle it, though.

20:08 Yeah, he'd let out a little moan and let me know I'm doing good. Fuck, that would get me halfway there. So there you go. Subtlety. I like the narration part on that. That's my bag. So I like the narration part on that. But again, I've clearly realised that I need a bit of sloppy on a blowjob. Or I just need the audio for context, right? Because I didn't... Yes. It's hard. It's hard with a clip unless it is the type that you don't like, Jules. The obvious gagging. Yeah. Right. Which I wouldn't choose. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Right. So this is like lovely subtle. Yeah. Yeah. The Dolph one reminds me because there's a... Dolph did an overheard. He's done two, but I'm talking about the first one, which is hot as fuck. I would recommend it.

20:53 It's called Spanx and Giggles. And his partner in the overheard was giving him a blowjob and... there was some gagging and there was, cause I thought I'm not going to like that. And I listened to it. I'm like, Oh, Oh, Oh, really? Yeah. It was just kind of like how she was doing it. She just, she sounded like she was really enjoying it. And so this is, this is a whole other conversation, right? Like, I think I've shared this with you guys. I might've shared it with you guys before, but you know, off mic, like how I was raised particularly around, well, sex was dirty and you know, we don't talk about that stuff, but blowjobs were like the scum of the earth act to do. It was the most degrading thing that a woman is expected to do, right? This is how I was raised around it. So I was raised to believe that you are like this worthless toy on your knees for a man putting his penis in your mouth. It was presented to me as something so disgusting and so degrading that people who did it were just like, thought nothing of themselves. Now, coming to this community and talking to women who love giving blowjobs, I was like, oh my God. So the power is really in your mouth, your hands. It's not about the guy forcing you to do something you don't want to do. And like, you know, so it was like, that was one of the biggest shifts, which is so crazy at this age of my life.

22:16 But I've also been married to a woman forever, so it hasn't been relevant. But to listen to so many women in this community talk about how much they love giving blowjobs. At first I was like, oh, you do? Like, And I would be so judgy. Like, you must not think very highly of yourself. But now I get like, no, like you're the fucking one in the power position. So that's why I was so shocked when I heard that one from Dolph when she was like kind of gagging. There was something about how she was doing it that communicated her joy in giving it. And so it was it. I got to hear what I now learn from some women in this community. So let's go to one of Smudgy's. So what was one of your categories, Smudgy? So I was sort of covering the BDSM dungeon-esque type. Yes.

23:00 My first choice was Nordeo and his audio Season Spanktory Winter. Oh, God. I don't know why winter means anything. All I can think of is that in winter you've got a cold bum, so that's going to sting even more, right? Okay. You nailed it. But, yeah, so here's a little Spanktory from Nordeo. Between each spank, his soothing caress is a welcome reprieve.

23:52 Right now, you want to be punished. I mean, my ass feels stingy now. Now that's a hand spanking right fucking there. Not subtle. No. But can you be subtle? I mean, there's a little tap. There's a little tap, but it's not. Spanking, is it? For me, a little tap, a little tease, a little tap, that's not spanking. Spanking is when your arm raises at least as high as your shoulder. Jeez, we're getting so technical. It's a technical term. And swiftly moves to the surface of the arse. Thank you. And usually comes, there was so many, by the way, spanking tag on Quinn is so big.

24:45 Yeah. So, so much. It was so big. I had so many to choose from because I've listened to a lot of the spanking tags. So yeah, so that was Season Spanktory. Season Spanktory. What a name. And then we have Lux. I'll give you the audio title. Your ankles bring out my goof. So there's a little bit of, you know, but it is an Emdom one. One of the tags is adorkable and goofy. So there is a little bit of a playful as well. I didn't want to go all the way down into the deep dark dungeons. So there's restraints and light bondage and belt. It's a proper belt and restraint sound. So here's a bit of Lux.

25:29 Allow me to refresh your memory. Right there. Okay. Good. That's not going anywhere. That's good. So, dinner bell? Ding, ding, ding. Ding, ding, ding. Oh, Mr. Lux. I love those sound effects so much. Belt is another tag that is pretty heavy. Everywhere.

26:10 It's so universally loved. And I hadn't heard it called dinner belt until you guys told me it was called the dinner belt. So on the basis where we were researching this and I was researching the belt thing, I just wrote something down and posted it on my sub stack. But it was, I love to hear you loosen your belt so I know that the conversation has just changed. It's the sound for a submissive when you hear the belt buckle. that whatever you've said and whatever conversation that you've just had has now changed the scenario. So it's a very intense sound. It's not really a playful sound. It's quite an intense sound.

26:52 It's an intense sound. That's hot. Yeah. No, that's hot. Okay, because that's hot, Smudgy, because that also shows the difference when people listen to sound effects, the way that they experience them. Because to me, I would never experience it that way. You were just like, no, it's an intense thing. I was like, oh. So you just think that he was taking his belt off to get his cock out. Yeah. Exactly. But you're saying he's taking the belt off to hit you with it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh. Yeah. Oh my God. See, my brain didn't even go there. And I love spanking stuff. My brain didn't even go there. Because the majority of belt, in fact, almost all the belt stuff that's on Quinn is just that belt's removed because the cock's coming out. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

27:33 I know. I know. But yeah, it is. So people even experience the sound effects differently, not just hear them differently. And they're like, yes. Yeah. Wow. All right. I do have a question going quick back to the spanking thing. A tag that always makes me go, oh, man, have you ever seen when the tag just says one spank? I think I've seen that. It was just one big spank. Yeah, just like one spank. I'm just like, oh, man, like there are some where the tag will say like spanking and you're like, yes. And then it will be like, boop. And you're just like, what the. Fuck was that? You've just touched it with your fingertips and the base of your palm. It didn't touch anything and didn't hurt anything. So, so many SFXs, so little time. Right. I was going to choose one particular SFX and I chose not to because it is very controversial.

28:18 Okay. Spitting. I'll tell you, people love spitting. I love it too and I didn't love it until Ayurvedica. For me, I love it too. Again, when I first came to this community, I remember asking people, what is this whole fucking spitting thing like I just didn't get it and I was like is it because I'm married to a woman like I just didn't get it but now I listen to it I'm like oh that's hot where I personally draw the line is don't spit in. My mouth okay so it's funny you say that because I'm not gonna say who but there is an audio that the first time I ever heard spitting it was him being like open your mouth and like just spits in it and I remember I was like yeah like you just.

28:59 Yeah that's the spitting that i was going to reference that's the bit that's the controversial bit spitting where they spit on their hand or spit on your cunt and yeah whatever to lube. It up a bit more whatever. Whatever they do i find that super sexy yeah. That particular spitting is there's way more people that hate it than they like it. Real i mean real subs like it because that's that's too degrading for me like they're not spitting my mouth like But I know other people who love it, too, and they're super subby. You do have to, I think, be in that little clique. You love it, Smudgy? I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. What do you love about it? Yeah. I know it's gonna sound weird but it's an intimate connection okay for me all right it's like when somebody comes in your mouth male or female and you kiss that person that person then kisses you there's an intimate connection with the with the exchange of bodily fluids and Same as a lot of people like men to come inside them. It's a connection. It's that intimate transference of fluids and that bond. So I know it sounds weird, but for me, it's a connection. It's an intimate connection and it's doms don't do it to everybody. I'll just lay that out there.

30:16 So it's kind of a privilege to think to have happen. It's a privilege. They're giving you something of theirs, which is why a lot of doms, Don't come inside you or come in your mouth. They come all over you, but they don't give you it. It's a dessert treat. Oh, that's interesting though. Okay. See, when you put it like that, it's like, okay, I can see how for some people that would be intimate. It's like kissing, French kissing somebody. You're swapping spit, right? I mean, like in the main heavy context, but you are still swapping and that's an intimate thing, kissing. That is hot. Every day's a BDSM school day. Every day's a school day.

30:58 Don't go away, clitizens. We'll be right back with some more SFX chat. But first, let's head over to Peaches for our September episode of Peaching It Real. Peaching It Real. Thank you, Kazza, Jules, and Smudge. I'm back. We had a little break. But Peach in a Reel is back for another mini-segment. And this time, I'm going to have a little ramble, a safer work one, about SFX.

31:44 And I wasn't really sure about how I was going to talk about it because I don't want to reveal too many industry secrets because I think some things, a little bit of mystery kind of, it keeps it alive. You know, when you're listening, you don't want to always just be picturing exactly what the VA is doing. You want to get into that character, don't you? So I thought I'd maybe start with how I used to do things. and how that kind of built and built and built. So I started as a few people might know on Patreon with my audios and my goodness, going back and listening, it was bare bones. I actually, for a couple of audios, I believe I didn't even do wet sounds. I, I relied on moaning and some sounds of me shifting in my seat. I think a lot of VAs start off with different things. I think if you're a VA who has come from a background of listening to audio erotica a lot, then you will have been well-practiced in that. However, I was coming into this world without that experience. I came in through people urging me to do it via social media, because they heard my voice on TikTok and on Instagram, and they were asking if I would do it.

33:17 And this took well over a year and a half for me to get into. So when I went into it, I did a bit of research, but I didn't do too much because I didn't want to inform myself through other people, therefore taking in too much inspiration. Which now it sounds a bit silly because, you know, the more books you read, the more you understand how to write. But I think when it comes to voice, I wouldn't want to echo anyone else who has their own style too much, if that makes sense. However, now that I have started working with other VAs, you kind of, you hear what other people are doing. You hear how other people work and you think, oh no, yeah, that sounded really good.

34:04 Okay. Maybe I will adopt some of that into my work too. So now I'm listening to more and I'm understanding the way that other people do things a bit more. So informing my work and hopefully creating things which are interesting to others. Anyway, so I started with the bare bones, grunting, movement sounds. I used to use Audacity as a digital audio workspace and barely knew how to use it. I would find sounds from an audio database, which I now no longer use because it doesn't have as much of a selection, and I would put maybe one or two sounds on top of things, you know, doors opening, tents opening and closing. I believe I did an audio in a tent way back when, and I actually used a zipper sound from an actual tent that I had in my garage. So Well, it wouldn't have been my garage.

35:05 It would have been in my loft because I was in my old house. So I kind of used very real sounds back then to make things. And it took a lot of time. So I've had to better learn how to create some of these sounds. A lot of them are realistic. I will not say anything more than that. But the best... the best tools that I think any VA has for making sounds, hands and mouth. I'll just let that sit for a second. But yeah, hands and mouth.

35:47 It really is, you know, whether we're doing kissing, oral sounds, the sounds of a smoothing over skin. You know, I'm literally just rubbing my arm right now. That is. The simplest thing but it's also i think the most powerful thing we can have in our toolkit so that's what that's what i do live while i'm while i'm recording is i kind of add a bit of depth to it by doing it live while i'm speaking because i think it kind of builds that momentum a little bit in the audio i mean you tell me if that's if that's correct or not i'm not too sure anyway Alongside that toolkit, I do have other things. I have a little box that I have various implements in order to make Foley sounds. And I also rely on an archive from a website called Soundly. And it has lots of different things, sometimes quite difficult to navigate, so I'm always in constant search of other archives to use.

36:59 Aside from that, It's pretty bare bones the way that I work with SFX because I don't want to oversaturate it too much unless it's meant to be an audio that is really going hard on the senses and trying to not fully overwhelm the listener, but building that soundscape and trying to really plug them into the moment. So yeah, they're my two cents on SFX. I'm pretty sure most VAs would be the same way in terms of creating natural sounds. It would be really interesting to hear more, wouldn't it, from others. But yeah, so that's me. That's Peach and It Real for another segment. And I look forward to talking about more silly things in future with you.

37:52 Back to you, Kazza, Jules, and Smudge. So kissing SFX. Yes. So one thing that I feel like there's not enough of, and I found a good clip of what is just good old making out. Like, well, it's not just like some kisses that just, you know, it's like just fucking make out for a while. Like this is just reminded me of it. I can't remember what the audio is, but there was a recent one by Lux where it's an established relationship, but it's their first time like doing anything physical and And in the audio, the listener isn't ready to do everything. And so it's super fucking hot because the whole audio is like, they're just having a really good makeout session, petting session, whatever. But it does never go to penetration. There was just something super hot about it. But anyway, back to kissing. So this clip is from August in the Winter. And it's called Showing Your Gentle Friend That You Like His Size.

38:50 Weird name. Probably these are probably his like reddit ones that transferred over to quinn reddit has ridiculous names but this is like this is just a good making out okay here we go that's it Just, like, just some smooching, just some making out. I love it. Like, you see how it's not, like, that squeaky pecky? Like, for me, like, it sounds like he's actually kissing someone he likes. It's not, like, popcorn kiss. It's, like, yeah. Right yeah all i heard was um um um that's all i heard because he made it he made a an actual sound yeah it wasn't just the lips he made a verbal sound so then.

39:41 All i heard was um Okay, I can see that. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. We've established at the beginning I'm not a big kissing sound person. Oh, yeah, you don't like kissing. Yeah, you don't like kissing. That's right. Oh, God, and it's like one of my favorites. I love kissing, but I don't like it. Okay, so this is the other kissing one I have, just for comparison's sake, is Sweets. And this is Good Things Take Time. This is a very quick clip, but you'll see what I mean. Oh. Oh. Yeah, come here and kiss me. Oh.

40:22 A couple little squeaks in there but I let them get away with it because the rest of it is like I don't know it's just like it's more it's louder it's but it's still just it's still just kissing. Yeah I think that that sat a little bit better with me. Yeah I thought that was good I mean sweets is just how do you fucking beat sweets so good so good So those are like good examples of kissing for me. But like I said earlier, I just I want it to sound like you like the person that it's that there's like intimacy and passion about it. You don't like kissing SFX at all as much. No, I'm just I'm just not. It's not not in my wheelhouse of things that I find because I'm not that Roman. I don't like the BFEs or the, you know, those types of. Yeah, we all know what I like.

41:10 And I just say kissing is not. Jules, what's your thoughts on kissing? What are your preferences? I love it. I absolutely love it. So the only thing, I know I always say, like, I wouldn't actually care if I knew how the sausage was made. And I'm not going to say anything. But Quinn did put out when Jamie Campbell Bauer did the original, they put out a behind the scenes and it showed how he did the kisses. Oh, wow. I kind of am always now in my head being like, I wonder if like, that's what they're doing. But so yeah, so I'm kind of, so it doesn't take me out of it, but I am like, oh, I wonder like, are you or are you not? But I love kissing if it, see, I'm different because I don't mind like the popcorn kissing. I actually think that's cute. Like, I think it's cute, but like, don't be popcorn kissing you while we're like, when there's music in the background and we're like, It's like sensual. Yeah. Like, you know, don't do that. So I like the kissing to match the mood.

42:08 I like when as long as it's not too much like the way Sweets was kind of moaning as well a little bit. Yeah. I love that. I fucking love that. Same. In audios when as long as it's not every second, like kiss for a few seconds and then moan. Oh, I love it. Do you know what? I'm going to be very vulnerable here. And I think I've realized why. I have an aversion to kissing. It was my last long-term relationship, which was 10 years. He refused to kiss me after the first year. He just said he didn't like it. So he never kissed me. So I didn't kiss in a relationship for 10 years. So I don't associate with, and I don't kiss with my doms. Don't there's no kissing involved. Right. So that's probably what it is because I don't have any, I don't have really any experience in the last 28 years of kissing. Yeah. Yeah.

42:57 So it's not a part of. An intimate experience for you. Sorry, it just hit me. And I was like, no, I think that's probably why. Because I haven't experienced it enough in an intimate setting for it to be anything other than nothing. Nothing. Oh, I'm going to give you a big old smooch when you come visit. I was, oh my gosh. She's like, really? I was just going to be like, well, maybe until you're over here. You'll get lots of smooches from us. Don't get me wrong. I love kissing. I always loved kissing, but it's just not been part of my erotic sexual world for a long time. Yeah, that makes sense. Oh, and he didn't want to kiss me because I have bad breath or anything, or I'm not good at kissing. He's just a cunt.

43:39 There you go. Fucking cunt. Loser. Are we going to talk about the plaps? That's right. Talk about the plaps. Yeah, we do. So the lovely sound effects of the actual sexual acts themselves. Yes. What do you guys think before I tell you the clip that I have? I found that I'm hearing them more now than I used to. Again, it's one of those things where like I didn't realize what I was missing. But now when they're done well, again, well is what is subjective. it really enhances it. And so it's not so much the, I mean, it's the plaps, yes, but it's just more, it's almost more the, like Xander's really good at it.

44:20 It's like the kind of the grunting and the motion and the air humping, you know, that kind of stuff. Yeah. Those noises. I mean, the plapping can help too, but if that goes too far for me, then I'm out. Because then I'm just like, oh my God, this just sounds like, it doesn't work for me. But like Xander's sex sounds are, And AJ's sex sounds work. Like they just, they sound realistic to me. So, yeah. So I like them now that more are included. And I'm like, oh, okay. It really enhances, it paints the picture more for me because I don't see it. What about you, Smudge? What do you think about the actual sounds of intercourse? God, we went very sex ed then.

45:01 Went from plap to intercourse. Intercourse. And, you know, with a slightly racist accent. Penile vaginal intercourse. Yeah, I really enjoy them. Yeah? It's that simple. The louder sounds. the better because I interpret that as pushing in deeper, you know, harder, banging that fucking cervix till it's given up. Damn, yeah. You know, like, get in there, get deep, pound away, pound away, kid, pound away. Pound away, yeah. I love it. I'm the same. When I first started listening two years ago, it was not as many sound effects for actual sex. Yeah, it really wasn't. Uh, yeah, I love it. I actually get like annoyed if a new audio comes out and it doesn't have the penetration tag. I'm like, oh man, like that's my favorite thing.

45:46 Like, okay. Kazza, you want the cunnilingus, right? You want that. So if that's not in there, I'm like, dang. But if there's no penetration, I'm like, for fuck's sake. Like, that's my thing. Yeah, I love it. I do get taken out of it a little bit if it sounds too much like someone's like banging two pieces of wood together or like flip flops or something. We just. Make it making the sound like what would they do? I know. I know what how a couple of them do it. And it's yeah. I don't know. To me, this example, I just think is yummy. And it's Nadio. And it is fair play. And I think this is the first time I've ever really used Nadio as an example because I know he's like everyone's favorite, but he's a slow burn for me.

46:28 So I've been like slowly getting on the Nadio train. You're chewing away. Let me tell you. All right. Here it is. Oh, why do you take me so fucking well? Yeah, that's good. Nordeo is king of the clap. Sorry, he is. Yeah. He's got that perfect mix of the fucking slapping his cock inside you and the sloppy wetness.

47:10 The wetness. Yes. Yes. It's like the perfect combo, by the way, because you couldn't see us. We were, all three of us, we're like bobbing our heads in sync with his plaits. That's clearly going to be our video promo for the episode. It's so good. But it's just, in Smudge, you hit the nail on the head. It's the combination of not too much of the bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, where that's all it is, but it's that and the internal, external sound. Yes. It was so realistic. If a queef came out, I wouldn't be surprised. It wouldn't throw me. Yeah, super realistic. So when it's that good and that realistic, you can really, I mean, talk about immersive, you can really get into that scene because you're not having to process any of it to make it make sense.

47:57 Yeah, yes. It's just, it's so good. You can hear that in isolation and know exactly what the fuck's going on. Oh, yeah. Right? 100%. Are we saying that that's a good score? Of a good SFX is if you can hear it in isolation and know what it is they're doing. Oh, interesting. Yeah, that's a good point. We should have just played the sounds and let everybody guess what they think was happening. Damn. We could have had our own game. Oh, we could have had our own. Damn it. I'll tell you what, we'll come up with a game for another Hit the Spotlight guest and we'll do that. Guess the SFX. Yes. Guess FX. Yes. SFX. There you go.

48:37 Bam. You already named it. Name it. Name it already. But I would like to give a final honorary mention to vibrators that are used as SFX in audios. Because I think almost all of the vibrators, in fact, all of the vibrators that I've heard sound like a real vibrator. So if you're a creator out there and you're in a booth and you're not using a real vibrator, then it sounds like one so well done. But I think the majority of you are using one. And fucking fair play to you because you have one. Whether you're partnered up or not, you have one. Yes. And there is no, I don't think there's a replacement for the sound of a natural vibrator, right? I don't think so.

49:17 No, because you could easily be like, oh, back massager. Come on, you're not fooling anyone while you bought that. It's not for your back. Yeah. Exactly. Who are you kidding? Come on. Yeah. It was just one when I was going through and I just thought, oh, vibrators. There's a lot of vibrator sounds. And not only just like the vibrator sound, but the varied kind of volume muffled. So, you know, like it's been, it's being placed somewhere. Yes. Like it's either just being shown, like here's what's coming. And it's like, so it's that. But then it's like a little muffled because it's been placed somewhere. Yes. And I love when the listener comes in. From the vibrator.

49:59 And you can hear the other person change the settings to get it to stop. Because it's over now. You know what I mean? It's not just like, oh, it ends. The sound ends. It's like they go through that to have it stop. I'm just like, fuck you. You hear the click of the button and like. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. And so I just go through like two of the settings no one fucking uses. And then it shuts off. Yeah. I'm just like, that is so perfect. That's such a good point, Jules. Like that, again, like is how you make it so realistic. Like you don't realize that. the whole journey you need to go through when you're listening to an audio to have it feel real and that like shutting the vibrator off instead of just the sound effect just ending like you said yeah it's like. Even like you said Kaz at the beginning like the echo in a bathroom yeah you know so even those things that seem subtle yep but they're really not.

50:45 Which actually my honorary mention that I want to play just a little bit of is um just from an overall soundscape perspective is Julian Kahn, who we just had on. The different things he uses was just so good. So this is just an overall, this is a clip of just overall sound effects. Here we go. I like her style. Yeah, I think once you've got survival sorted out, Everything else is just a. Matter of style. So all the different pieces of this, like we talked about him in the interview, like his audios are so layered and full of texture. So the bathtub is filling in the background. You have like a motorcycle going by. You've got street noise. You've got all sorts of ambient noise. You've got some music playing. It's just so many layers, whereas other audios that I also love are just voice isolation. It's hot as fuck.

51:52 Right. But, like, just the, I think the brilliant use of overall soundscapes is just, I mean, he really, you know, he's quite a master at it. So, I loved that one. Yeah, that's, it's Chez Trois is his audio. Chez Trois. Chez Trois. Oh, SFX, eh? So everyone, I think, will be looking out. Oh, I know I will. When you have this conversation with people, you tend to look out more for certain things now. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. And Clintusons, of course, we want to hear more from you. I mean, we heard, let me see if there's anything that we missed here that you all sent in. Oh, anything with thunder, rain, and fireplace, SFX, and I'm set. So this person really loves that kind of ambient setting. Yeah.

52:33 Too wet and slurpy ruins it. You are not trying to drink out of a fire hydrant. That's from Sue Shines. From Sunny the Swede. Rain SFX. So good in certain audios. Gagging during BJ takes me right out of it. Right? Like you were saying, Jules. Just like me, yes. Marilyn Merlot. SFX sucking, licking, ew. For Marilyn. Okay, yeah. Asta Janarova says, depends, shouldn't be overused. Some VAs know how to use it well. It brings another dimension. I think that's a bit right. It really does. Yes. Yes. Excuse you, Nicole. Love oral SFX, except they have to be done right. Like for yourself. Sometimes it gets a bit much. Missy Ann says, BJ love super slurpy eating nausea.

53:23 There's some real extreme reactions, aren't there? And then this one finally, Kinson Alley, beard scratches and belt flicks. Yes. Super slurpy slurps? No. I think the word slurp alone is just like. Slurp alone. But that's the other thing, like when it's like someone's like rubbing their face and it's got like stubble. Yeah. Oh, I love that. That's a good one. Yeah. So SFX, man. SFX. And as a way to end this segment, because my husband is home today and I'm just a loud person. So he heard us talking about the blowjob part. And when I was talking about when guys come, like doesn't make a sound. So he shot me a text that said, Jules, it's because you're making too much noise to hear it because we're in bed.

54:04 Right. So it's you. You're overpowering with your own SFX. He's like, of course you don't hear it because... You're already, you can't hear it. I'm like, oh shit. So maybe he's right, but hey. I love it. Oh dear. Well, I've learned things about SFX I didn't know and not too much that it ruins it. That it ruins it. But it really did, it did make me appreciate more like the work that goes into it. That the sound editors or the VAs or whoever's doing that part of it. It's really, it's quite an art. It is an art. It is. It's not just a plunger down a toilet. No, it's not. Anymore. Very scientific. Very, very scientific.

54:45 It's not just a bowl of mac and cheese. All right, ladies. So, a lot to say about SFX. Who knew? Oh, my gosh. I swear we could keep talking, too. I know. It's three little words. SFX. You weirdo. Oh, Clintisons, thank you so much for listening to us yap on about SFX. Yeah. And if you didn't get a chance to answer our Instagram story, and even if you did, we'd love to hear what your thoughts about this. So you can put it in the comments. You can leave us a voicemail from our website, quincast.com. You can send us an email, any of the things. Tag us on socials. We want to hear what is your take on SFX. Or go to quincast.com and leave us a little voice note with your own SFX attempts. Oh, that's good.

55:30 That's a really good idea. Listen to Smudgy. Go to quincast.com. Yes. Click on record a voicemail and give us your SFX. Your attempts at SFX because I guarantee you we're going to listen to them and probably put them in a promo. Or play them in a future episode. Yes. Good idea. I love that. Let's hear what you can do with your own SFX. Yes. Love it. Love it. Thanks, Glittisons, for listening to another episode of QuinnCast. We appreciate you so much. If you could go rate us, review us, like five-star review, it helps so much. It helps our podcast reach so many more people. So it's super, super helpful if you can support us in that way. Leave us comments on Spotify. Again, super helpful. Share it with your friends, all of it. We love you so much and we appreciate you. So we'll be back again soon with another great episode. But for now, this has been Kazza. Your voice matters.

56:19 This has been Jules. Go put those lips to good use. And this has been Smudge. Keep wanking.