leckel1996
Member
Where do you all get your sound fx from? More specifically gun shots and action oriented sounds, But also ambient loops too.
Sound fx
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Steve House
Veteran
Google will turn up lots. One well-respected site is SoundDogs.com. For ambient tracks, record your own. Go to the location and have at it.
http://www.pacdv.com/sounds/ is very useful. Doesn't have everything but it's all free for use.
Noiz2
Sound Ninja
Most of it I recorded. But Sound Ideas, and Hollywood Edge have pretty good libraries and Sonic Boom has a set just on guns and gun handling.
Gun's I haven't recorded much because I was in the SF Bay Area and the options locally were pretty limited. Now in the wooly wilds of Michigan I'm looking forward to recoding more weapons and explosions.
The two keys to recording are first almost nothing sounds like it looks. This is important for safety also. If you have a high speed chase and your doing the cars the last thing you want is a bunch of recordings of cars going really fast. This leads into the second big thing which is break down the track or the "sound" to it's components and record the components. The reason is you will never do it all in one And make it sound just the way you want AND have it sync up correctly. Also it's a lot more useful to the components so you can assemble them in different way to build different sounds.
So for that car chase you want high engine revs, and pass bys, int gear shifting, peel out tire chirps, cornering tire squeals and probably some skids and suspension "bumps". You don't want to do any of that above say 40 and most can be done quite a bit slower.
Gun's I haven't recorded much because I was in the SF Bay Area and the options locally were pretty limited. Now in the wooly wilds of Michigan I'm looking forward to recoding more weapons and explosions.
The two keys to recording are first almost nothing sounds like it looks. This is important for safety also. If you have a high speed chase and your doing the cars the last thing you want is a bunch of recordings of cars going really fast. This leads into the second big thing which is break down the track or the "sound" to it's components and record the components. The reason is you will never do it all in one And make it sound just the way you want AND have it sync up correctly. Also it's a lot more useful to the components so you can assemble them in different way to build different sounds.
So for that car chase you want high engine revs, and pass bys, int gear shifting, peel out tire chirps, cornering tire squeals and probably some skids and suspension "bumps". You don't want to do any of that above say 40 and most can be done quite a bit slower.
tackyattack
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I visited the newly designed freesound site the other day to upload and update my profile. Looks fantastic, and those new Creative Commons licenses really make it massive option for indie filmmakers that want to stay legal.