markmanginisound and mikejamesgal talk about the blasters 💥from the movie Blade Runner 2049. 📝 Mark: “The primary sound is a field recording of a Barrett .50 caliber sniper rifle – nothing unusual about it other than the fact that it’s one of the biggest rounds that you can put in a handheld weapon. So there was quite a boom in the original recording of that. Next, I took that into the studio and used the Renaissance Compressor, which is a favorite tool of mine for large dynamic things; I like the way it stomps on a transient but then blooms the decay to give you a much longer ring out. So I stomped on it with the RComp and then combined that with a Roland 808 kick drum – really a TR-909. But the blaster is simply that – it’s just this Barrett .50 cal, compressed with the RComp, and combined with a Roland kick drum sound.” Via learnfilmmaking #sounddesign #bladerunner #bladerunner2049 #postproduction #filmmaking #soundmixing #indepthsounddesign #sounddesigner