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Sound design of sci-fi weapon

In this post, I will show you how to do a few sound designs for a cool sci-fi weapon.

Alex Mars, Blogger

September 1, 2017

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Hi,

My name is Alex Mars, I am composer and sound designer at AK Audio and a tutor at XSSR Academy online music school. 

There are many ways to create sci-fi texture sounds. You will need to know how to use synthesizers as well as know how and lots of inspiration.

A sound of future weapon should consist of several layers:

  • loading gun sound,

  • a sound of metallic parts

  • the impact sound of the shot

  • It could also have a sound when a gun cools down after shooting plasma

  • echo sound

You can synthesize each layer separately. Some textures are created when you manipulate effects chain. Listen to how interesting these sounds can be.

Let me show you how I do my sound design:

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