How do they make gun sounds...

[USMC Sniper 0]

How do they get gun sounds in movies? Say in the Matrix, the beretta sound is probably computer made since every shot sounds exactly the same, but in Scarface the beretta makes a sound that sound like a deepened version of someone clashing pans together. Or do they just keep the sound that is produced by the blanks getting fired off, or what?

[ralphwiggum 6]

my guess is that they have archives of gun sounds, or the sound guys use blanks.

[FSPilot 0]

Probably blanks that are beefed up with a computer sound program. I bet it's different depending on which movie you're watching. If it's Saving Private Ryan you're probably hearing blanks. If it's something like Rambo 23 you're probably hearing generic archived sounds.

I don't know, just what I think. Someone's probably going to quote this and shoot it down with 5 sources.

[madmedic 0]

Most gun sounds in movies are very "HOLLYWOOD".

In real life the sound is not quite as impressive as in the movies.

A few movies get the sounds right,...(most are not loud enough though)

[Itchy 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (madmedic @ Dec. 30 2002,06:38)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">A few movies get the sounds right,...(most are not loud enough though)<span id='postcolor'>

You mean like the escape from the bank in Heat? That was impressively loud.

[Tex -USMC- 0]

They usually add them in during post-production... in fact they add or refine everything, including dialogue in post. They have an archive of sounds, and that's why you generally hear generic, pan-clashing sounds so often.

[eh remraf 0]

Most sounds in all forms of media have already been made. It's just a matter of the sound guys picking up a cd with various sounds and plugin them in.

[shadow 6]

I have rarely heard a gun-sound in a movie which is ieven remotely close to a real-life gun-sound.

Take the Beretta 92FS. The sound is completely different depending on your surroundings (wooden-walls, steel-walls, in the open etc), bullet- type and weight, amount of powder and powder-type. Alot of factors to take into considerations, but still I have never heard a sound in a movie that come even close to my own 92FS.

Oh and have you noticed that the clicking sound is quite high in movies when people are changing mags

But the funniest movie gun-sounds must be silenced-weapons LMAO  Allmost like some Star-wars lasers.

edit:

I see alot of people here complaining about movie gun-sounds not being loud enough.

<span id='ME'><center>Shadow is banging his head against a concrete wall</center></span>

The typical close-up sound-level of a regular 9mm hangun is in excess of 160 db peak.

Okay, let's say you watch a movie in your home-theater and you got the sound-level at approx. 95-100 db (normal to high listening level for hometheater).

What would happend if the movie recreated the sound-dynamic 100% ?

The answer: It would destroy both your hearing and your loudspeakers in a second or two

So, do you still want 100% reallistic gun-sounds in movies ?

I don't...

[Tex -USMC- 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Shadow @ Dec. 30 2002,11:47)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">The answer: It would destroy both your hearing and your loudspeakers in a second or two

So, do you still want 100% reallistic gun-sounds in movies ?

I don't...<span id='postcolor'>

Sounds like AC/DC's first album

[shadow 6]

LOL

... I like AC/DC

[bn880 5]

Yep, as far as I know, all sounds are replaced during movie editing, even the blanks are probably not heard in most cases, just the replacement from a sound bank.

You want to hear something funny? Listen to the metal-metal/metal-concrete vehicle collisions on TV, all shows use the same sound clip for those collisions, even Cops replace the sounds... lol Now Cops is very special, sometimes(err always) they add in holywood effects to car chases.

[USMC Sniper 0]

Yeah I noticed that, all cars sound the same when they collide into walls. Another thing I noticed, in all 70's-80's movies the Colt 1911 ALWAYS sounds the same, if you've ever seen Terminator or Miami Vice, they both sound exactly the same.

[eh remraf 0]

Yup. Pretty much every single sound including voices are added in during the editing process.

[USMC Sniper 0]

At least I know where those sound come from, but how do they make them? And can I buy a sound CD that professionals use.

[Renagade 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (bn880 @ Dec. 30 2002,15:15)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Yep, as far as I know, all sounds are replaced during movie editing, even the blanks are probably not heard in most cases, just the replacement from a sound bank.

You want to hear something funny?  Listen to the metal-metal/metal-concrete vehicle collisions on TV, all shows use the same sound clip for those collisions, even Cops replace the sounds... lol    Now Cops is very special, sometimes(err always) they add in holywood effects to car chases.  <span id='postcolor'>

Is it the funny metal crush/sqeak sound u mean when the carrs crash??

Doesn`t silenced guns still make the funny buzz sound if someone just misses when their shooting at u,maybe thats what the movie ppl are trrying to recreate with the funn noise they usually have when silenced gguns are fired.

[eh remraf 0]

Usually the buzz, or crack comes a second after a silenced weapon. However, this is when using regular ammunition. This problem is resolved when using sub sonic ammunition.

Most sounds are made from sounds that are already recorded. Basically you need a mixer, sampler ect. and just combine, tweak and edit existing sounds to come up with a sound that you want.

[Renagade 0]

no i meant the buzz/squeal from the bullet spinning in the air due to the rifling in the barrel.

[Assault (CAN) 1]

It's funny how sounds sound alike when you hear them on different mediums.

For example: The wooden door opening sound in America's Army, you guys know what it sounds like, right? Well, I would have sworn that I heard the exact same sound on a TV commercial yesterday, twice.

Also, when a BMP explodes in OFP, I have sworn I have heard the same sounds elsewhere.

Tyler

[USMC Sniper 0]

I could swear that the Ingram sound in Die Another Day is someone throwing a rock against a tin roof! And the desert eagle and beretta sound the same in the matrix.

And SMG's ALWAYS sound the same in movies.

[Aaron Kane 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Assault (CAN) @ Dec. 30 2002,22:32)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">It's funny how sounds sound alike when you hear them on different mediums.

For example: The wooden door opening sound in America's Army, you guys know what it sounds like, right? Well, I would have sworn that I heard the exact same sound on a TV commercial yesterday, twice.

Also, when a BMP explodes in OFP, I have sworn I have heard the same sounds elsewhere.

Tyler<span id='postcolor'>

OMG, I've heard the door opening sound from Resident Evil in like TONS of commercials too. Its really weird.

And since we're talking about movies to an extent, in that second newest bond movie, the one with that stupid villan who couldnt feel pain, why do the FNP90's have a blue muzzle flash?

[Assault (CAN) 1]

Yeah.

If there's one thing in movies that I hate, it's bad sound effects when it comes to firearms. In the Matrix, for example, everytime someone lifts a rifle to their shoulder you hear a cocking sound, but they don't even cock the weapon! The sound guys just add it in.

It gets even worse in other movies, the 'cocking sound' is heard over and over, from the same gun: before the actor even fires it! Geez, I wish people would realize that you only have to cock a weapon once.

As for gunshot effects, I thought Blackhawk Down's M-16's sounded like pieces of metal banging together when they fired.

Tyler

[USMC Sniper 0]

There should not have been FN P90's on a Russian chemical facility, period.

[FSPilot 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Shadow @ Dec. 30 2002,16:47)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Oh and have you noticed that the clicking sound is quite high in movies when people are changing mags <span id='postcolor'>

Good gracious. One of the first scenes in the Mummy Returns where the guy is walking around with a revolver in that pyramid. Everything he did to that gun made it click, including move it through the air. It was pretty funny.

[Tex -USMC- 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (USMC Sniper @ Dec. 30 2002,22:52)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">There should not have been FN P90's on a Russian chemical facility, period. <span id='postcolor'>

was watchiung Octopussy yesterday, and there's a scene where James Bond shoots up some Communist soldiers who are armed with Steyr Augs (!. Not especially odd that Hollywood does this, except only 3 or 4 guards have them, and they are all in one scene, and then at the end of the scene and in all following scenes they are holding good ol' AK47s

[USMC Sniper 0]

Oh yeah that train scene, I remembered that. Lol they never get the weapons right in movies, even though it's not that hard to do 5 minutes of research.