Ambient pressure, the flare gun

This week I have mostly been working on adjusting all the sounds that I have made during this course. Much time was spent on adjusting the sound for the Flare gun audio. Today I will describe how I constructed its sound.

So a short description of our game: One plays as a diver who is supposed to explore shipwrecks deep down into the ocean. The goal is to find a specific amount of mutated algae in order to complete the game. While doing so the player has to avoid mutated fish that hunts the avatar.

One of the first sound effects that I made on the project was the audio for the flare gun, which the diver uses in order to light up the map.

The sound that I created was supposed to represent the shoot action. This sound was activated as soon as avatar pulls trigger of the gun. The first thing that happens when this action takes place, is that the projectile leaves the gun at a high-speed. In order to develop this I had to do some research on what it actually would sound like when a real flare gun was fired. But none of the realistic sounds was appealing to me, it did not match the rest of the game. So started on exaggerating the sounds.

The first thing I recorded was me hitting a paper roll. It took a while to develop a technic, but finally the sound that I was searching for appeared, but it did not sound as much as I wanted it to do. This was done to depict the sound of the projectile leaving the tube-shaped gun.

To enhance the sound I added some “exciter” plugins to make it both louder and sharper, along with various equalizers. A kick drum was added above earlier mentioned, which would enhance the ignition effect.
The second audio track consists of actual rocket recordings, available on the hard drive that I got from our teacher Finn Engström. At the same time as the rocket sound occurs, a bubble effect kicks in. This was added to represent the projectile under water. On these two effects I added both filter and equalizer plugins. At the start and the end of the whole track a light match sound was added. This increased the ignition effect. The program that I made all the sounds in is Logic Pro X.

You can listen to the sound, along with some other sounds that I have made during the course, by clicking this link:

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