Thread: Car Crash

Glass breaking would be very useful. All different sizes and types of glass and even some pitch shifting. Combine that with some screeches and hits.

Just some thoughts,
Erik

just put a whole bunch of nails in the street and sit there with your mic and recorder at the ready LOL

I have the Impact Effects CD from Sound Ideas which has some very cool sounds that can be combined for some pretty dramatic crashes and explosions. If there is truly zero budget, that probably leaves that option out. By the way, do you use Sound Dogs at all? I find that when I'm in a jam and need a sound quickly that I can't build myself I can jump on their site and audition some sounds and download what I need. Very costly if you have to get lots of sound effects from them but okay for a few spot effects.

If you get stuck and can't create that crash, let me know and maybe I can try and help.

There's a good section in David Yewdall's Practical Art of Motion Picture Sound on how they record car scenes.

Steve

Thanks Steve, Ill check out the Yewdall book.

I took a whole bunch of action movies out of the library and sampled the car crashes just to have a point of comparison. I was amazed at how many of them are buried under the score, and single impact crashes without explosions seem to be very hard to come by, although the crash-roll-burn type seem to be plentiful.

I did finally come up with a decent car crash. It took me about 16 hours (most of which was "field "recording) and 30 tracks. It was finding and creating the pieces to construct it that was the tough part. I ended up using some explosions (chopping them very short) to get low end for the initial impact. I crushed a lot of cans for the metal crunch, broke some glass and dishes for the upper end tinkle, pounded on an old metal shower and beat up an old wheelbarrow. Recorded a bunch of other cool sounds that didn't make it to the mix, but will probably be useful at some point.

Hey, sosayu2, let me know where you live and I'll throw some nails in your driveway! (HO HO HO HEE HEE HEE HAH HAH HAH)

i'm in brooklyn, ny. and don't worry.....there's plenty of crap already on the roads here. LOL i do have some questions for you though so if i could contact you offline that would be great

Cool. It always seems to work much better when you can record your own stuff. It's more tailored made for that Event happening on screen and i think there can be a lot of satisfaction gained from knowing you created the elements that made that effect possible. And you get to add to your sound effects library, which is always good.

steve

sosayu2-

Please do, it's always great to network with people in your area. At the very least we can cry into beers together.

Steve-

Yeah, expanding the library is always a positive.


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