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**Khuskan** · #1 02-13-2007

So someone said 'Hey khuskan, record some new footstep sounds'. So I did. Little did I know that it would turn into the most epic recording session ever.

First I had to scout possible locations. What I needed was a generic concrety footstep noise (think current combine footsteps) that would sound very military and nice. First idea was to go outside but the windy weather and me generally living in England put a bit of a damper on that idea. Fortunatly, my kitchen was having a bit of a makeover, and had lovely exposed uneven concrete floors.

Pardon the really shitty camera quality - I dropped it a few times onto various hard surfaces and its never focused properly ever since

Thus I begun the task of moving all my gear from up upstairs studio (read: Bedroom) downstairs. A list of everything that I moved about:

1 shure SM58 microphone
1 Behringer Xenyx 1222 fx mixing desk
1 15ft XLR to XLR cable
1 Samsung Q1 mobile PC + power supply
1 M-Audio audiophile external USB soundcard + power supply
1 dual phono - phono lead
1 extension lead
The dogeiest 2 way power splitter EVAR.

Groovy. Now I set the Mic up for recording. For those in the know, the SM58 isn't exactly made for this kind of task, but I feel the bass responce it has really added a little more depth into the sounds I recorded. Also it's very sensitive.

The mic is sat on a little cork mat as to stop it picking up vibrations right off the floor. I was using the stand before, but it was too high up and was picking up my nuts knocking together louder than the footsteps.

**Khuskan** · #2 02-13-2007

And thus the task of recording began. I did a few test runs, set a few settings on the desk to give it a 'bigger' feel and then noticed something. The lovely levi jeans I was wearing were rubbing together against the boots causing horribly rubby noises. No problem, Khuskan has an awnser!

The things I'll do for SF eh? Now comfortably set up in my sexy swimwear, I recorded about 30 or so different sounds in different methods, and, to my great happyness, gave me this lovely recording:

The bag you saw in the swimshort picture is full of random crap. Theres a couple of deoderant cans, a mic case, various heavy stuff and a few cardboard boxes. I stuck the mic back on the stand and shook the bag around to get a nice 'Hey I'm a soldier carrying loads of equipment and armour' sound.

When I get onto post-processing, I'll overlay the two together to generate very nice soldiery movement sounds.

o_nobody_o · #3 02-13-2007

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Originally Posted by Khuskan

The things I'll do for SF eh?

I ROFLMAO so hard when I saw and read that!

Khuskan; oh the sacrafices!

Mudkip · #4 02-14-2007

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Originally Posted by Khuskan

Epic win.

Is it merely coincidence that seemingly every dev is releasing one of these diaries all of a sudden? Will Louti and KG follow suit? Will Khuskan actually continue updating this one after the first day? INQUIRING MINDS NEED TO KNOW.

**Sayyan** · #5 02-14-2007

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Originally Posted by Mudkip

Will Louti and KG follow suit?

I'm assuming that was a joke?

Imagine Louti trying to teach the SourceForts lot how code C++ and use the SDK in less than 10 posts.

**Khuskan** · #6 02-13-2007

So I had a little time left at the end. I went on the hunt for shell like objects to record some empty case sounds for the weapons.

I came across an old fired rifle shell, and some sort of huge brass mofo that sounds very nice when dropped. I'm still not entirely sure what it is.

I put the mic back on the mat and recorded my final set of sounds. Standing carefully behind the mic (it's a cardoid, you see, it's only sensitive in a cone that extends directly out of its top), I dropped the shells what seemed like eight billion times.

Guess which recording it was where I accidently dropped the shell on the mic!

Now I think it's time for a nice little lunchbreak, and I'll be back shortly mixing the sounds together and cutting them out, then I'll hand over to a coder who will stick them in the game, and hopefully we'll get you a recording or maybe even a video showing them in action!