Description
Presenting the M1918 FN BAR Automatic Rifle HD Professional Sound Effects Library, a multi-channel collection of Broadcast WAV files recorded at 24-Bit 96kHz. The machine gun was recorded close up, medium and distant. You get a simple but wide selection of perspectives to choose from. Foley, Single and burst shots with multiple variations are included along with a few “designed” special mixes.
Recorded at a 90 acre open field range with rolling hills surrounded by large fir trees in the distance. Perspectives include: attached, very close, medium and distant. From just a few inches out to 150 meters, this collection offers a wide range of source material. 11 mono and 6 stereo microphones time aligned and level matched provide a “ready to go” set of sound files with detailed Soundminer metadata from this amazing sounding fully automatic weapon.
Gun Background (Wiki):
The Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR) is a family of American automatic rifles and machine guns used by the United States and numerous other countries during the 20th century. The primary variant of the BAR series was the M1918, chambered for the .30-06 Springfield rifle cartridge and designed by John Browning in 1917 for the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe as a replacement for the French-made Chauchat and M1909 Benét–Mercié machine guns that US forces had previously been issued.
The BAR was designed to be carried by infantrymen during an assault advance while supported by the sling over the shoulder, or to be fired from the hip. This is a concept called “walking fire”—thought to be necessary for the individual soldier during trench warfare. The BAR never entirely lived up to the original hopes of the War Department as either a rifle or a machine gun.
The US Army, in practice, used the BAR as a light machine gun, often fired from a bipod (introduced on models after 1938).
Equipment Used:
Sound Devices Scorpio/442 • Sound Devices 744T/302 • Sennheiser MKH-8040ST XY • Sennheiser MKH-8040ST ORTF • Sennheiser MKH-8040 • Sennheiser MKH-8050 • Sennheiser MKH-8060 • Sennheiser MKH-416 • Schoeps MK-4 ORTF • Sony PCM-D100 • Neumann KM184 • DPA 4062/4061 • DPA 4011 • Audio Technica AT835-ST
TECH SPECS
| Files | 58 |
| Sounds | 600+ |
| Library Size | 1.75GB |
| Format | Stereo/Mono BWAV – 24bit, 96kHz | Mac-Windows |
| Metadata | Soundminer, BWAV |
| Available As | Download Only |
| PDF Sound List | XLS Sound List |
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