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Hey, as I might have mentioned in a prior post, I'm working on an Unreal Tournament mod. For some stupid reason I'm trying to be a one man development team XD!! Lots of work but its all fun.

Anyways I have about 3 years of mixing and editing experience in FL studio. Its meant for making music but I find its also a great host for making sound effects. It has VST synthesizers and effects you can play around with. I've been experimenting by mixing some drum samples to make gun sound effects. I think it sounds ok but I was wondering if you guys can offer some tips and tricks. Maybe some good programs, VST's, effect plug-ins, or stuff like that. Any help is appreciated.

I uploaded the sound I made with drums but its awaiting moderation. I'll post the link when its up .

Well here's my first sound. Let me know what you think and once again, any tips would be appreciated .

http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=68036

Hello Ghostex,

the gunsound has a nice basement and sounds artificial, bit "silencerd".
I´m still thinking about if the "room" I hear the sound firing in, could/should be removed, so make a "dry" sound without the "room" effect, will sound maybe better, I´m not sure, also I have not too much gunsound-design experience, I only designed some different pistol firing sounds on a Waldorf Wave, thats now many years ago

Good luck!

I would like to recommend two VST effect plugs from Camel Audio -Camel Space and Camel Phat ( Not Free). If you have not already tried them please go ahead. They are actually multi-effects plugins with delay, gate. filters, reverb, compresser, distortion and much more.

Even Factory Presets are great enough to get you started. Though, I am not a Game Audio expert myself but I think these plugs can be really useful in your Game Audio Creation.

By the way, I liked you machine gun sound.

Great Machine Gun sound effect I found that constantly experimenting and listening for sounds helps me out with sound design. Some of my best sound effects have come from accidents. I got this really neat ray gun sound effect by just messing about with EQ and Distorting it. When the EQ stopped receiving the audio signal, it made this little ray gun noise and so I recorded it.

If you're working on futuristic sounds like vehicles and ray guns, experiment with synths and samples and basically mess around with them. One of my favorite things to do is get the "Fruity Delay 2" in FL Studio and turn down the Time knob to 0:08-0:10 and I get this lovely Sci-Fi flanging effect.

Hello there,

i can recommend you a Sound Design Course in Book form:

http://www.wizoobooks.com/Englische-Produkte/Books/Programming-Synthesizers::224.html

Did buy the german version. It's really a very good book on that sector (Sound Design). With it, you will learn to create any sound you can imagine on any synthesizer you use (more or less) .

Soundfull Greetings,
.Ingo.

Hi, nice machine gun!

All of the above, and also if you download Audacity or buy one of the many audio editors on the market and get yourself a sound recorder and microphone you can manipulate your own sound captures to create unique sounds/fx.

All the best.