T_Tactical wrote:I don't think Hollywood used an actual gunshot. I've heard the same sound a suppressed pistol makes in an action movie sound exactly like a laser gun in a sci fi movie.
Why would they go to the trouble of setting up mics 150yds down range to shoot a suppressed pistol with supersonic ammo to try and create the sound of a suppressed pistol shooting subsonic ammo at the shooter? They wouldn't. This is Hollywood, they aren't out playing around with live rounds anyhow.
They created the sound the same way they created the sound for a laser gun in Star Wars, they made it up based on how they thought it should sound.
The observation wasn't to suggest that every movie silencer is a real, unmodified recording of the gun depicted. Granted, there are almost certainly movies where the sound has been "completely made up." Rather, it was that there is a basis in real life for the sounds put to suppressed guns in post-production, including the "pteew" no suppressor owner ever hears.
OP was that, contrary to the belief and experience of most suppressor owners, we now have at least one example -- with a low-fidelity hobbiest mic no less -- of a suppressed gun making something like the classical hollywood sound we've been mocking all these years.
Most of us hear our gunshots from near the muzzle, to the side, or behind it. It might be interesting to put mics downrange more often to see what other sounds one gets in the "danger zone," and which combinations of guns, cans, and ammo produce them.