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Subject: [OM] Re: OT Sound effects, was Ran into a photographer
From: "Darin" <d.rhein@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 13:14:40 -0800
Bob Whitmire wrote:
>
> Don't want to sound like a warmonger here, but the sounds of firearms
> in movies always riles me more than a little. I was watching a show
> the other night in which several actors were firing determinedly with
> Vietnam-era M-16 rifles. The sounds, however, were Hollywood stock
> machine gun sounds. Now, I'm no expert, but I know a M-16 does not
> sound like a WWII-era Browning Automatic Rifle. At least no M-16 I
> ever fired did.
>
I agree, hollywood has a lot to learn when it comes to matching sounds to 
firearms. The other firearm related sound effect that annoys me, is that 
barely audible little puff of air sound they use when a weapon has a 
suppressor( what Hollywood likes to call a silencer) attached. Now maybe a 
suppressed .22 rimfire would make that puny of a sound, but no large caliber 
handgun would be that quiet.

> --Bob
>
> And having just seen a couple of episodes of Dukes of Hazzard, I
> second the motion about squealing tyres, er, tires, on such surfaces
> as dirt, gravel and flattened grass!
>
I also agree with you on this, when refering to grass, mud and loose gravel. 
However, tires will sqeal on hard packed dirt, and thin gravel with a hard 
packed road bed. Trust me I've done it. 8^)

Darin

>
> On Jan 2, 2007, at 1:19 AM, Chris Barker wrote:
>
>> But the worst of the simplistic sound effects is the squealing of
>> tyres.  Not only do we have squeals in films when the car is clearly
>> not push the edges of tyre adhesion but I have seen it when the tyres
>> are on all manner of inappropriate surfaces such as grass or mud!
>


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