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Why do blasters make that 'zot!' noise? Wouldn't it be more of a 'crack' or a crackle?

Well... they do make more of a bang/crack sound specially in these later versions were they enhanced the blaster sounds.
I think a more in universe explanation is blasters don't heat the air they travel through as all energy is released on impact. So all noise generated is from the weapon that generates the bolt and from the bolt interacting with air.

-Gunhead

Indeed, and those interactions maybe something we're unfamiliar with, since the bolts themselves seem pretty exotic in nature.

The sounds could be coming from some mechanism within the weapons themselves, too.

Or possibly that the sound designers wanted to use a noise generally accepted for a 'ray gun'?

They make those sounds because those are the sounds they make.

Yet another baffling thread...

defanatic wrote:Or possibly that the sound designers wanted to use a noise generally accepted for a 'ray gun'?

SoD please

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:They make those sounds because those are the sounds they make.

CANON!!

SoD?

Suspension of disbelief.

Because one of the sounds they used for blasters included hitting the grounding cable from a telephone pole with a big wrench (I shit thee not. Thats what they used.)?