If using a blank firing gun in a studio its a great choice for authentic muzzle flash (front venting) and shell ejection but the sound will be or can greatly compromised by recording, and everyone present gotta wear ear defenders or you'll end up like me almost deaf in one ear lol Any one record real gun fire for over dubbing on film?
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Hearing protection is a must, especially indoors! To our ears, the real-life sound of a gunshot is thunderous or percussive, but to the frequency response of most microphones, it always seems to fall short by comparison...perhaps more so if the room is acoustically absorbent. When I've done sound design, I've often had to take cracking firecracker-like pops and lower their pitch to give them a bigger, heavier sound. I would not want to be in an enclosed space where take after take is using the loudest cartridges available, trying to capture it in-camera (so to speak). If there is a subsonic round that will still cycle the action and eject, give it a shot!...pun intended.
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Speaking of whip-cracks, imagine the sound of an Indiana Jones fistfight if they used recordings of actual punching...lots of slappy-clappy stuff...lol