Video: Why The Guns In Modern Warfare Sound So Incredible - With Marshall McGee

Posted September 19, 2019 by Asbjoern Andersen in Game audio, Sound design guides

What goes into great weapon sound design? In a just-published video, Marshall McGee analyzes the impressive sounds for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare - and he even takes a crack at recreating them and their many different layers, using libraries supplied by Sound Effects Monkey and A Sound Effect! Check out the interesting video here:

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Why The Weapons In Modern Warfare Sound So Incredible

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Here are the libraries Marshall McGee used above:

Firearms Sound Effects Bullets Play Track 600+ sounds included $75

A violent collection of bullet sounds, recorded and designed in HD 24-bit 96k resolution. These sounds are ready to make your project pop. Featuring bullet impacts on surfaces such as dirt, flesh, glass, car, wood, and metal. To help bring even more detail to your shootouts, we’ve also included a suite of whizby and incoming sounds.

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Firearms Sound Effects Gun Handling Play Track 585 - 1335 sounds included From: $49

Gun Handling is a two-volume collection of Foley sound effects. It features a wide range of guns, all recorded in HD 24-bit 192k (Volume 1) or 24-bit 96k (Volume 2) resolution. Multiple takes of mechanical sounds were recorded for each weapon. Included are sounds of loading bullets, pulling triggers, racking slides, magazines, and more.

View the weapon list to see the guns included in each volume. You can purchase each volume separately, or you can buy them together for a special price.

Volume 1 features handling sounds from:

S&W 686 • Kimber 1911 • S&W SW9VE • Walther P1 • Walther P99 • Mossberg 500 • 1897 Coachgun • Ruger 1022 • Ruger Mini-14 • Saiga IZ-139 • SKS • Mosin Nagant M44

Volume 2 features handling sounds from:

Marlin • High Point CF380 • Sig Sauer P220 • Armscor 206 • Mossberg 500A • High Point 996 • FN P90 • HK MP5 • UZI • Mini Uzi • AR-15 • M4 • HK53 • AK-47 • FN-FAL • FN SCAR 17 • Savage Model 16

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Firearms Sound Effects Guns Play Track 770+ sounds included
Rated 4.00 out of 5
$225

This is not another tired collection of stereo mixes or over-designed guns. We are proud to offer a massive set of multi-channel gun recordings, produced by experienced weapon recordists. Each weapon in the library includes sounds from at least 8 microphone perspectives, covering close, medium, and distant perspectives. We traveled to the Arizona desert and recorded real guns, firing live rounds, in an great sounding outdoor environment.

We have kept these sounds as raw and unprocessed as possible. While we carefully edited and cleaned every sound, you may still encounter occasional noise (shell ejections, rumble, wind buffets, and other outdoor sounds). It is our belief that if removing noise takes away from the character of the sound, we’d rather leave it alone, and let the end user decide how to best fit the sound in their mix. Despite any small imperfections, these are the cleanest, most powerful, and most useful gun recordings you will find anywhere.

Each weapon offers multiple takes and perspectives. Semi-Auto and Bolt Action guns include multiple single shots (8-12). Full-Auto guns include multiple single shots, bursts, and long bursts (generally around 16-20+ rounds). You’ll find at least 8 microphone positions for each weapon; covering close, medium, and distant perspectives. View the weapon list to see everything that is included in this library.

Featuring 27 different weapons:
• Handguns
• Rifles
• Assault Rifles
• Submachine Guns
• Belt-Fed Machine Guns
• Suppressed weapons

Weapons included:
AK47, AR 10, FN FAL 7, SCAR17, Heckler & Kock HK 53, M4 Carabine, Glock 18, Kimber Customer II 1911, Smith & Wesson 686. Walther P1, Walther P99, Browning M2HB, M240, M249 SAW, PKM, RPD 7, Mosin Nagant M44 Bolt Action, Saiga IZ-139, Savage Arms Model 16 Bolt Action, SKS, FN P90, Heckler & Koch MP5, Mini UZI 9mm, Uzi 9mm, m4 Carabine Suppressed, Mini Uzi Suppressed, HK MP5 Suppressed

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User Interface (UI) Sound Effects User Interaction Play Track 678 sounds included $79

Characters speak and so do the items they use. USER INTERFACE will bring the small to life with this collection of clicks, notifications, buttons, and swooshes.

Included are: Buttons, Clicks, Jingles, Notifications, Organics, Slides, Swishes

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Environments & Ambiences Suburban Russia Play Track 56 sounds included, 173 mins total $19

What could be better than summertime in the country?

Of course summertime in Russian village!

Those sweet sounds of hammers, lawnmowers, dogs, neighbors activity, forests, fields, rain and, of course, lots of cicadas!

This library contains authentic atmospheres of villages and small towns of suburban Moscow, as well as sounds of nature, roomtones and doors of the old Dacha from Soviet era.

KEY POINTS:

• Authentic atmospheres of dacha, forests, fields, streams, rains, streets of small towns, night and day suburban activity and roomtones!

• An excellent addition to your library for film, TV and multimedia – Suburban Russia during summer and autumn time

• Recorded with Mid-Side Sennheiser MKH8040/MKH30 combo

• Sorted by location-type categories

• All files have metadata included

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User Interface (UI) Sound Effects Motion Graphics Play Track 650+ sounds included $9

Introducing MOTION GRAPHICS, a complete Motion Graphics sound effects library from SoundMorph!

Motion Graphics focuses on all the elements you might need for sound design on a trailer, a cinematic scene or a visual that is heavy with motion graphics, whether it be abstract or straight forward, Motion Graphics has all the elements and textures you could think of. Motion Graphics are something all of us sound designers run into at one point or another, so this library is an excellent addition to your sound effects tool box.

Motion Graphics was created by and in collaboration with sound designer Rostislav Trifonov (SoundMorph Elemental library contributor).

Motion Graphics features 650 24bit/96 kHz .wav files, all meticulously embedded with Soundminer & Basehead metadata.

The library features:
• 450 + designed sound effects
• 190 + source audio files
• Whooshes
• Impacts
• Risers
• Stingers
• Low end and Sub Bass
• Impulse Responses
• Passbys
• Textures – noise, grit, glitch
• Ambiences
• Buttons and Clicks
• Mechanical Elements
• Granular effects

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Metal Sound Effects Military Truck Percussion Play Track 321 sounds included, 14 mins total $10

A US Military Truck is transformed into a percussive instrument and hit with drum sticks and a variety of mallets ( gong, xylophone and timpani ) and sampled using contact microphones and geophones.

A unique collection of 321 metallic percussive hits perfect for metal impact sound design and transient shaping.

Type : Source Files / WAV Mono

Normalised : -6 dbFS

Grouped Files for Easy Reference Included

Recorder : Sound Devices Mix Pre 10II

Microphones : Stille & Klang Spot, LOM Geofon

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Car Sound Effects Fiat 850 Sport Coupe 1968 sports car Play Track 175 sounds included, 46 mins total $65

All files are recorded 32bit, 192 kHz, with RØDE NTG1, Line Audio Omni1 and FEL Clippy XLR EM272 microphones, Sound Devices MixPre-6 II recorder. Library contains wav files of driving, interior and exterior foley, mechanical and electrical sounds. It is only available in UCS.

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Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects Effective Trailer Booms Vol. 2 Play Track 232 sounds included, 59 mins total $29.99

Effective Trailer Booms Vol. 2 delivers the next level in cinematic low-end, featuring 232 brand-new one-shot sounds meticulously designed for cutting-edge trailers.

Building on the original Vol. 1, this new collection is designed for cutting-edge trailers. It moves beyond simple impacts to focus on the deep sub-bass, tonal rumbles, and resonant elements that build anticipation. It’s the perfect tool for setting a dark, mysterious tone at the beginning of a trailer or providing that final, deep punctuation at the end.

A boom isn’t just a hit, it’s the sound of intrigue. Effective Trailer Booms Vol. 2 delivers the next level in cinematic low-end, featuring 232 brand-new one-shot sounds meticulously designed for cutting-edge trailers.

Building on the original Vol. 1, this new collection is designed for cutting-edge trailers. It moves beyond simple impacts to focus on the deep sub-bass, tonal rumbles, and resonant elements that build anticipation. It’s the perfect tool for setting a dark, mysterious tone at the beginning of a trailer or providing that final, deep punctuation at the end.

Inside, you’ll find a massive library of deep tonal rumbles, powerful sub-bass swells, bone-chilling textures, dark resonant drones, and powerful cinematic punctuation, all designed to pull the audience in.

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Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects SpellBound Play Track 969 sounds included, 122 mins total $90

SpellBound is premium sound effects library exploring the intersecting spaces of modern magic and science fiction energy. The result is a polished, designed, and inspiring set of cinematic magic sounds ready to bring new life to your film, game, and media projects. Brian Johnson, the creator of SpellBound and Slipstream is an award winning sound designer who after working in film, and television, has found his home designing sound for the biggest video game franchises in the world.

SpellBound has 969 total sound effects
Spells, explos, tails, whooshes, beds, impacts, drones, and more.

Designed section – 202 designed multi-event show stopping full frequency sound effects.
Elements section – 767 designed construction kit, layers, sweeteners, and single event effects.

SpellBound can compliment your fx arsenal with traditional fantasy, modern magic, cinematic impacts, and even as an explosion sweetener. It can take over a fantasy trailer or a compliment a hybrid space magic video game.

Thank you for licensing SpellBound. I hope it inspires you to create something exciting and magical.

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Game Audio Packs - Game Sound Effects Libraries Kawaii UI Bundle Play Track 1339+ sounds included $70

Kawaii UI Bundle is the ultimate bundle for cute user interface sounds.
In this Bundle you get both volumes of our Kawaii UI libraries.
Kawaii UI + Kawaii UI 2

These libraries provide an adorable blend of cute, satisfying interface sounds, crafted to enhance user experience and feedback.
Bring your games and apps to life with the Kawaii UI Bundle.

It’s ideal for creating joyful menus, delightful HUDs, playful navigation and notifications, engaging pop-ups, and expressive text.

What’s Inside?

Designed

The designed portion of Kawaii UI Bundle gives you a selection of ready to use OS sounds, various melodic and synth based sounds, button presses, cursors, notifications, swipes, errors, bootups, app opens, loading loops, etc. We’ve even included an adorable vocal alphabet for character text.

Source

The source recordings inside are a treasure trove of physical button presses, clicks, pops, taps, mouth sounds, toks, shakers, general synthesised UI sounds, FM bells and telemetry style sounds.. Kawaii UI Bundle provides you with the essential building blocks to craft your own distinctive designs. Combining these elements gives sound designers a robust sonic palette to create new UI sounds.

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