Bill Mueller wrote,
>I suspect that gunshots are as difficult
> >to record and recreate as thunder and surf.
My understanding from the film recordists I work with is that the
successful way to record gunshots and door slams is to let the
impulse saturate the hell out of the tape, so that the early
reflections and reverberation are really what's faithfully recorded.
This only works with analog tape.
<codger mode> I was doing theatrical sound design in the 60s. Mercury
Records came out with a great mono 1812 Overture, which had a
documentary of recording the cannon and bells on the B side. That
cannon was a godsend for sound design, much better than the available
sound effects LPs. It was heard in a lot of shows!
At some point, Mercury re-recorded the piece in stereo, and published
it in the same format. I ran right out to get it, but I was very
disappointed in the sound of the new cannon recording. It was a puny
crack. I suspect the engineers didn't know the old saturation trick,
and recorded the cannon "properly" so the impluse didn't distort.
That put the reflections and reverb probably 20 dB down... </codger
mode>
-Dan Dugan
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