You guys should turn this into a sound library, I'd imagine game devs are interested in this.

A penetration test behind realistic cover would be awesome. Like, what CAN you actually hide behind?

Also, you just made the most incredible reference material for sound designers & architects... for FREE. You should sell the uncompressed audio. This was a soundgasm.

Ive heard a few gunshots on corrugated iron roofsheets (which we use as walls here in RSA) and bullets on concrete slabs , mostly 9mm rounds . It's a sound I can recognise anytime . That whistling of a round passing you through the air is also unmistakable.

I've literally waited for content like this for years. Back in the FPS Russia days there was a cam set up for the L8A2 tracer fire and the sound was insane and I don't think any other youtubers have done anything like this and it's insanely interesting. Especially being from the UK where guns can't be played with. Amazing content.

I’m impressed at your groupings at that distance with the pistols.

As a sound designer who is working on a realistic FPS, this video is highly valuable, not really anything like this. Will be re-designing some of my sounds based on this video. The most interesting thing was hearing the crack of the bullet over the impact which is something I can implement through mixing and some game logic.

When I was in the military I was tasked at one point to raise and lower targets at the range. I was in a deep trough just below the targets but safe from being hit. I was surprised at how insignificant the sound was when striking the dirt backdrop. It reminded me of the snap n pops I used to have when I was a kid.

This is such a valuable asset for military fiction writers! More of this please! The amount of mil-fi I read that is let down by lack of realism is annoying me. I’ve read ‘chug’ ‘thwack’ ‘buzz’ far too many times.

I enjoyed every moment of this. The sounds, weapons, gear and commentary just great time beginning to end.

The grouping with the cc75 on the concrete wall was actually really impressive, especially at the distance you was at

they sound like small metal pieces hitting things really hard

they sound like small metal pieces hitting things really hard. I’m impressed at your groupings at that distance with the pistols..

It would also be extremely interesting to hear the sound of different rounds zipping by without hitting anything like it happens many times in real life especially on the battlefield where u deal with different caliber bullets flying through the air. Great vid!

This makes me appreciate BF3 even more. The gun and bullet impact sounds are pretty similar. Specially the one at 3:46

It's crazy how you have changed over the years. I've been watching since you started and I love how you progressed over the years. Your still serious when you need to be but can be absolutely hilarious at the same time. The Winnie the pooh thing threw me off I was dying laughing.

what impresses me most is his accuracy in shooting, both with the 9mm and with the rifles, anyone who knows a little about weapons knows how a millimeter can give a difference of meters in the target point and he managed to make the shots stay close even the distance

Cement is the material that holds concrete together. Concrete is a composite material consisting of cement and a variety of aggregates to achieve the strength characteristics desired for the structure.

Very informative! I participated in a range exercise in Korea as a 2LT…we were behind a berm and were tasked to listen what type or caliber and aprox distance was being fired at us. We had set up at 50 and 100 yard berms and fired M16, M14, M3A1 and .45. I have long since forgotten but it was a very realistic training event. For the final event, a M60 was set up from 100 and then 200 yards….very good learning experience that for ANY incoming, you want tobe behind COVER!

Fascinating sounds, thanks! Cement is one of the ingredients in concrete, which is a composite material made of cement, water and some filler like gravel + additives.

Great video!! While staring at the concrete my brain so badly wants to watch the impact of the round, but because it happens instantly, my eyes always track to the hit spot and its weird missing the impact each time lol

This was awesome to hear the delay between impact and the shot itself between the shooter and the target perspectives.

TV post sound mixer here. I use lots of SFX libraries for impact and gunshot sounds. Id like to know which mic you were using for this, would be interesting to see of there was a way to isolate the actual impact without getting the shot crack. Looks like a SLR mini shotgun mic. The dedicated shotguns like a Senn 416, Neu KMR 81 or if you wanna go big, the Schoeps CMIT 5 might have better isolation. If I had access to a range and was a bit more dedicated in my own field, id try to capture the audio using that.. Then again Id also get some surround recordings to get the entire soundfield of the impact to get the best placement feel.

For those of us fortunate enough to not be in combat, this was definitely an educational experience.

Never been shot at by .308 at that distance (7.62x39 for sure), but I have certainly shot at people with .308 at that distance or less. You are 100% correct. That did suck. The 240B tends to ruin days that way.

I'm not at all a gun guy (might be cuz I'm not from the US) I am however a hobbyist creative of all sorts, and stuff like this is fantastic reference material for game projects, among other things. Seriously, if you could release these sounds in some kind of soundpack, that could be an amazing resource for a lot of smaller game devs, filmmakers or sound engineers.

Really love the dad advice. Always interesting to see what everyone says

Pretty cool. I know which rounds are subsonic and which are supersonic. I was able to predict before hearing these which ones you would hear the bullet impact before hearing the gun report. The 5.56 of course at long range since the bullet travels faster than sound you get to hear the bullet impact before you hear the gun fire. And the Benelli M4, since it is subsonic you hear the sound of the gun before you hear the bullet. Cool stuff.

It sounds badass but screw being on the end of a bullet 😰

I love your videos man, very nice work here again. Question : -What model are your gloves? -Who produces this front dump pouch under your plate carrier? Thank you!

The editing is fire on this video. As always, superb content

Thank you for posting this, i was finally able to fix my unrealistic sounds on my game using this as a reference!

The change of direction with the rounds especially hitting the wind shield is terrifying

I just recently got into the concrete industry. Cement is a binding component of concrete (the finished product), other materials go into the mix which can be adjusted to fit certain construction needs.

The windshield glass was the most terrifying. Not just the sound, but the fact that even if the rounds miraculously missed you, you are now trapped in a claustrophobic position where you can't open your eyes or breathe.

Hey man, I like your videos. Had a thought for a future video, I wonder what it'd sound like getting shot at from each caliber with a comparison with their subsonic counterpart (suppressed for a bonus maybe).

First video I’ve been seen from this channel. And one of the best videos on KZonlines. Thank you for this amazing content.

This had me thinking about what common barriers go from cover to concealment against what calibers and ranges.

The 22 sounds the best. So satisfying to hear on earth. But it must be terrifying to hear in real life.

Pretty cool and accurate. Personally (against concrete) I’ve only experienced .50 cal & 7.62 impact on concrete close to me, Lebanon). Close but civilians here won’t know how rounds impacting close or going overhead is just how loud it all is, hurts your ears even at the receiving end

Please, PLEase, PLEASe make this into a mini series. The ability to learn the Distance a shot came from, the type of gun that shot it and/or the type of round that it is...surrounded by the noise of what it is hitting, is invaluable!

If at all possible, you guys should do a video with a camera/microphone at the receiving end of some rotary gun fire. I've always wondered what 60-100 rounds per second sounds like when it's pointed at you.

Having pulled heaps of target frames you are about right the difference between between wet and dry backstops and hitting a target sounds different again . hitting the butt is another distinctive sound . Hitting a game animal has a very distinctive thump keep up the good work

Concrete has ballast/gravel in it cement doesn’t. Btw your grouping with the 9m on the concrete was impressive from that range given the conditions 👍🏼 An ExSapper

These sounds is incredible, it’s crystal clear

hi there!! i make sound effects for a major video game developer and this video was super informative. we’re always trying to bridge the gap between people’s expectations/satisfaction and true reality. We got a lot of vets at the studio, but this is fantastic for the team to chew on!

If you guys made a sound library like this for game devs, then you very well could make a side gig selling the sounds. Different calibers at different ranges, the impacts, in a building or by a wall, shooting from inside a car, maybe at the car, the sounds it would make shooting at dirt vs concrete or metal. etc.

Mr. Thumb, I think it would be an interesting idea for a video were you test to see if and how much more added ballistic resistance you would get wearing a ballistic vest with the Qore ice plate filled with both standard water and then also with it being frozen.

Loved shooting "falling plates" the sound of those 7.62 rounds hitting those thick metal plates was something else.

Pretty cool , this is an awesome video to hear what this sounds like

Cement is the paste (powder prior to adding water) in concrete. You can use cement by itself (post holes etc), or you can add aggregate (rocks) to make concrete. You can see the rocks in the bullet impacts, so you are referring to concrete.

So, another awesome video as always. My suggestion, next time you do a windshield mag dump with any and or all calibers put in some ballistic dummies to show what kind of trauma the body takes, so if your ever thinking of hiding in or near a car = this end result. I think it would be awesome video.

This is turning into an amazing series on sounds of bullets, first traveling and now impacts. 🤔

Very interesting video. Thank you to you and your team, Garand Thumb!

this video really makes me appreciate the super-sonic-ness of bullets

The sound you hear when you see the impact is the sound of the impact, not the gunshot. Great content guys!

Mike I would like to request a video about suppressors. Does it make a difference if the suppressor is directly threaded, has a brake, compensator or flash hider?

This video was awesome, appreciate the at-target sounds but I would have loved for the over-the-shoulder sounds to have not been clipping so badly. I'm sure that's not trivial to rectify but we'd love to hear it.

Micah flipping the switch from having fun and joking around to becoming completely serious and articulate for dad advice actually seriously made me tear up for some reason. I think I need some coffee.

Small note, most of the sound is bullet-crack and muzzle-blast reverb -- very hard to isolate out only the impact, but for a 3-stage-setup in a game that would be needed, where each component of the sound is a separate audio-file.

Would it be better to use subsonic rounds from suppressed weapons? You mentioned the retort being very audible from the .223 and .308s, but less so from the .22s.

this is gold for sound designers, for movies and games.

That first test with the dirt sound made me realize that the sound of the suppressed .22 would probably be accurate to the sound hitting a body makes. So creepy.

Concrete is a combination of Cement, aggregate, and other admixtures to create a very strong compound in both compressive and tensile strength. Cement is pretty much just the glue that holds everything together.

That corrugated metal one was scary as hell, can't imagine being inside that taking hostile fire

Very educational- .22 sounds cool, the slug into dirt very unique and the .556 into the windshield equals a bad day.

I would be interested in the impact sound of a subsonic .300 blackout out of a supressed firearm. Aspecially because of the bullet's mass and because the impact of the projectile won't be overshadowed by the supersonic crack.

Awesome video as always! Thanks again

Love the sounds !!

During training in the Norwegian navy we had to sit in a trench and listen to the MG3 sending hails of bullets over us at 1100 rpm. That was a sobering experience.

I know this video is about audio, but DAMN the scenery you are in is absolutely beautiful.

Seeing this guy reminds me of my childhood and playing "war" in the woods, and then to stay that way for the rest of life. Living out his dream I guess - nothing wrong with that.

definitely would need to do this with really quiet subsonic stuff to get a clean usable sound

Some of those sounds are very interesting! ❤

It's really hard to tell, and I probably missed it if you did talk about it, but for recording these kinds of things It's really important to use a narrow FOV cardioid/supercardioid microphone to minimize the BGS and potentially isolate the muzzle report. Honestly GT, you should get a good library of audio out there and make it purchasable as stock audio for film/game use.

Got a question. When bullets hit a wall from an angle do they really travel closely along the wall? I'm sure they do at some angle but I'd like to know the angles. Thanks.

I would love to see you guys do an overpenetration test to see how different home defense calibers react to going through interior and exterior walls

My Grandfather was in Bastogne and said they had a tin shack they used, I guess as an outpost? Anyway, he said it had been shot so much in the morning you could see light coming through it like a sieve. This video was pretty cool to me just for that part. (He probably wouldn't have enjoyed it as much.😄)

Love that you guys make Ballistic science fun

Good ol GarandDaddy never disappoints.

I like how the windshield of the car doesn't completely shatter despite getting hit by multiple bullets.

That .308 suppressor is amazing. The rapport from behind the shooter sounds incredibly controlled.

Great video could be the difference in someone’s reaction by knowing and learning the different sounds

Amazing content as always 👏😎. And it may just be cuz I’m weird. But I found it interesting how your trigger reset got better, as the video went on. Been doing those Mojo drills huh

He's so happy! Idk why but it's cute LOL, I never imagined bullets hitting objects could be so fascinating! Thanks for sharing :)

È essa qualidade sonora que eu desejo nos games !!!!!

Why was this so relaxing to watch I really enjoyed this

Excellent stuff right here. The sound of 7.62x39 cracking against Concrete and our Humvees is something I will never forget. Sage wisdom there Micah.

It really shows how much Thumb loves doing this. He unconsciously shot a heart into the corrugated metal.

What make me scared the most is how a tiny sound that 9mm impact to a dirt can take your life in maybe a single shot or twice

Awesome!!👍🏻 👍🏻 That was definitely cool!

Toda una clase magistral 🤟🤟

You should make a video on “do bullets travel down walls?”. You could set up giant white paper sheets around to catch frag. It would be interesting to see different material walls and see what angle of shot causes different fragmentation paths.. And how far we should stand off of walls to not catch frag/whole rounds.

Wow, the bullets hitting the dirt sound like gunshots! Crazy

Would love to see a video on the IWI Negev. Keep the content coming!

I have heard the "twang" a few times. I ricochet sounds wild. Only twice has it made me really nervous as I have heard that round whirling off next to me. Really makes you hesitate to poke your head out.

FYI: Cement is an ingredient used to make concrete Also I was looking forward to the shotty on the corrugated steel, I reckon a buckshot would be loud haha

3:05 Amazing how much that sounds like the classic movie “silencer” sound effect

Honestly, Micah's advice is really appreciated. I feel like too many people nowadays are trying to go on their own and never really develop any relationships past the acquaintance level. I only have a few really close friends but they mean the world to me. I'd lay down my life for them and they would do the same for me.

That 22 sounds so clean, Id love to get my hands on that sample :)