Wild cats recording – update
This time, I chose to record some bigger cats. Specifically a 14 month old Lion, a 15 month old Puma, 3 full-grown Lionesses and a full-grown Lion. It was a weird experience. The moment when I saw the Lion for the first time, I was afraid. I had so much respect to the lion, I really didn’t want to be any closer to him than 5 Meters and a couple of fences. Anyway, I had to get closer, which was my own fault since I chose to record sweet little cats. We recorded with shotgun mics and a 744T. Sebastian Pohle, who helped me out on this, was at least as cowed as I was. After a couple of test recordings we were settled enough to get closer to the cats, let’s say half a meter. You can see what they did on a short video clip here. And there is nothing cut out. They really very often open their mouths without making any noise.
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Hi,
that sounds really great and impressive.
Can we hear the clapping to the fence at the end in the game?
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Hallo
Das klingt doch schon richtig super.
Kann man das Schlagen gegen das Gitter auch später im Spiel hören?
Grüße
Hey Crusader,
Would be kind of odd to here a fence where you don’t see anything metallic besides the sword, wouldn’t it?
no, you will definitely don’t hear any fence as long as it is not visible or in any way interactively used in-game
I am glad you like it so far.
Best,
Axel
Hello,
Really nice video
You guys did great :>
When can we hear some more samples of music from the game?
Does this mean there will be lions in the game? If not, what creature roars like a lion?
@HomerSp: Unfortunately I may not give you any information about the game itself. But technically: we record animals to design sounds from it, not to use them as is. Meaning: Nazguls from Lord of the rings are originally donkey and horses – so feel free to imagine where a modified lion would suit to
@ Tark: thanks! I am sorry, I don’t have any information about that. You should give an official forum a try. If there are any news, normally they should come up there, first.
Hello again
Why do you use two microphones?
Hey klstefan.
I used two mics because they have different characteristics and they just sound different. Back in the studio I mix both together or use just the parts of a specific mic that sounds good. For example I use the low frequencies from one mic, the high frequencies from another. Have you seen my new post about designing creature sounds? It’s not about why I use two mics but it explains a little bit more in detail what I do.
Cheers,
Axel