What I mean by “sound randomization” is creating multiple similar sounds for one object, like a gun.
A gun shouldn’t have one gun shot sound effect because then you would be able to hear it repeating which would quickly get unpleasant to listen too, and while you could add a pitch shifting script to it that would somewhat alter the sound, it’s still not enough and making 3 different gunshot sounds for
tens of guns would probably get tedious quickly.
Basic Principle of Sound Design for anyone who might not know
The best approach for creating a gunshot sound is to separate it into a few sound layers:
- Base of the gunshot (or the actual gunshot sound)
- Tail of the gunshot (the gunshot echoing in the air etc.)
- Mechanical parts (the bolt, trigger and other stuff to make sound more rigid)
- Anything else you want to add (like a sub-bass layer or something)
Mixing all these layers together and you get a nice gunshot. Then you can make multiple versions by either tweaking some effects or replacing some sounds altogether and get multiple gunshot sounds which is fine, but ineffective.
Here what I want to say, Overwatch actually does this, I don’t know how hard it would be to make but it’s definitely a good system that works very well.
What if you could get: 2 Tail, 2 Mechanical and 2 Base gunshot sounds, then you could randomly mix them together, add a pitch-shifter for each layer and you get a lot of gun shot sounds that all sound similar but different at the same time.
You could probably get away with having one base gunshot, and then 2 or 3 mechanical and tail sounds and have it sound pretty much just as good!
