Hi all! Do you remember how Indiana Jones fights have those weird, over-the-top punching sounds?
(see here at 0:13 )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-au9DeVKi8E
I don't think there were those sounds in the talkie version of FoA. Did anyone ever play subsequent Indy games like "Infernal Machine" and such?
Usually the punching sound comes with a moaning sound of the guy receiving the punch ;)
Any idea if other adventure games (or movies) have similar pulp sound effects?
Our final goal is to extract those sounds and have clean samples.
I believe it's rather unique to Indiana Jones.
How about doing your own foley? If you have a decent microphone, try hitting anything leathery in front of the mike (fine leather jackets are good - wrap some clothes in it to create a makeshift punching bag - or attack a suitcase with a stick, beat yourself up mildly, slap your naked thigh, anything goes really). Then layer different punch effects on top of eachother. Crack some pistachios for layering into the facial punches. Most likely it's quicker, more fun, and more educational than ripping the effects. Use a compressor to boost the bass in the end for really heavy sound.
A leather couch is REALLY good for this kind of audio recording, takes a lot of abuse without complaining.
Or you can punch yourself at various body parts for the most realistic sound effects :tongue:!
Not recommended though. :wink:
Quote from: Adeel S. Ahmed on Sun 08/09/2013 12:25:13
Or you can punch yourself at various body parts for the most realistic sound effects :tongue:!
Not recommended though. :wink:
As a person who made the sound effects for Girl and Rabbit, I officially endorse and recommend this approach.
never ask practical questions to people who take drugs. I should have remembered that!
Thanks guys
A steak, a wooden desk, and a microphone. That's how all punching sounds in all Bud Spencer movies were made, and they sound pretty similar in terms of over-the-topness.
Quote from: Ghost on Thu 12/09/2013 15:47:34
A steak, a wooden desk, and a microphone.
Now I wonder which of those three objects were slapped against each other :P
As a vegetarian, I'd like to chip in against the punching of leather and meat. Vegetables have a long and distinguished history of being beaten in the pursuit of foley.
have you search on Freesound.org (http://www.freesound.org/)?
A quick search leads me to these sound effects (free registration may be require):
sample 1 (http://www.freesound.org/people/Ekokubza123/sounds/104183/)
sample 2 (http://www.freesound.org/people/satanicupsman/sounds/144015/)
sample 3 (http://www.freesound.org/people/m_O_m/sounds/107566/)
They will require some edit, of course, but sample 1 might do the job.
Quote from: Ali on Thu 12/09/2013 17:17:28
Vegetables have a long and distinguished history of being beaten in the pursuit of foley.
So is fish: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCwLirQS2-o
Thanks for all the answer. Yes, we tried freesound and other sites. We were hoping to get something genuinely "Indiana Jones". But it's ok, we got sounds that are close enough.
Also just for the record, it is out of the question that we record sounds ourselves: we are a tiny team for a gigantic task. So we try to get a "lever" effect whenever we can. If 4 people aim at making a full-length game in less than 3 years, it's only by not recording punch sounds themselves :D
I'd like to offer these: http://www.mediafire.com/?i1hgdj1d257he9t
These are royalty-free sounds, originally distributed with DIV Game Maker 2000 (spanish DOS game maker), free to use in freeware and commercial games without any need to credit the source. I just zipped them up. Maybe there's something in there you can use.
Most are punching sounds, but some are "people hitting things that are not people, like a wall"... well, it's an archive.
Thanks!
all of this is very helpful!
Quote from: Monsieur OUXX on Thu 12/09/2013 14:29:38
never ask practical questions to people who take drugs. I should have remembered that! [...]
Now that's some serious insult, isn't it 8-0?
Be sure to not to come anywhere closer to me, otherwise you'll be 'reduced' to record the most realistic punching sounds coupled with some ouch, aaaaarrrghhs :cool: :=!
If you don't mind parting with a couple of dollars, some of these are really good:
http://www.pond5.com/sound-effects/1/punch.html
According to Wikipedia (and all those behind-the-scenes featurettes), for Raiders, "sound effects artists struck leather jackets and baseball gloves with a baseball bat to create a variety of punching noises and body blows." So that would absolutely be genuinely Indiana Jones - perhaps you could ask people here to record themselves doing it and send it to you!