Potential Halo 4 sound effect analysis - NOT the gun sounds...

I really enjoyed this week’s bulletin, even though it did not name the new composer. But I’m an all around audio junkie myself, from writing music to creating sounds. So when I read this part:

> Everything from the opening and closing of a pair of rusty scissors to a brushtail possum’s scream pitched down an octave to a short snippet from a two-inch mortar explosion are all on file in our extensive audio library.

I became curious. I found a few different sounds that brushtail possums make, and pitched them down an octave! I threw together this.

The first few sounds are the screams. After that, it’s some weird hissing and growling noises. All pitched down an octave, with some reverb.

I know it’s not much, but I thought it would be good to speculate on what kind of creature would make sounds similar to this. In my opinion, I think it could be used for some flood sounds. Possibly wildlife too. But who really knows?

I hope this provokes some thought and useful, civil discussion.

Me and my two close live friends saw the video and we think we heard that rifle looking gun shoot or try to shoot a 3 round burst so me and my friends thought Battle Riffle or some sort of rifle like gun.

Interesting…

The music will be great next subject. I mean its Halo come on now.

That is so cool! :smiley:

For some reason I couldn’t get the link to work but I went to youtube to hear what they sounded like and I can say without a doubt that the scream from the enemy in the concept art trailer is from one of those possums.

> Me and my two close live friends saw the video and we think we heard that rifle looking gun shoot or try to shoot a 3 round burst so me and my friends thought Battle Riffle or some sort of rifle like gun.

You clearly did not read the subject line of this thread.

> For some reason I couldn’t get the link to work but I went to youtube to hear what they sounded like and I can say without a doubt that the scream from the enemy in the concept art trailer is from one of those possums.

May I ask what’s going on with the link? It works fine for me. Is anyone else having trouble with it?

And after I heard it, I thought the same thing. Also, the sounds at the very end of the sound file I made sound similar to one of the sounds that played between the low, synth bass stabs in the concept art trailer.

It sounds like somekind of machine/organic machine to me like some kind of mechanical movement

> It sounds like somekind of machine/organic machine to me like some kind of mechanical movement

That’s a distinct possibility. To me, they sound a lot more alien. I’m guessing the link worked for you then?

It sounds like some ambient cave noises.

> > It sounds like somekind of machine/organic machine to me like some kind of mechanical movement
>
> That’s a distinct possibility. To me, they sound a lot more alien. I’m guessing the link worked for you then?

Yeah it works alright.

The screams in the beginning sounds like the flood, Im scared already :slight_smile:

they sound really good… it sounds mysterious and a little intimidating. can’t wait till we get another trailer.

> It sounds like some ambient cave noises.

My guess would be that’s because of the reverberation I put on them.

Flood would be excellent. I don’t see how the flood could not be in the new trilogy. But I’m also hoping for new, exotic aliens of some kind.