Awesome game with FX acoustics that deliver the effect of distance really nicely. I want to work on some ambient pieces with various elements positioned far in the distance in a believable way. I know they made actual field recordings of weapons at various distances for the game, is there anyway to get something near that effect in a VST.

I have most of the popular reverb VST's, but distance in them normally means a large space (cathedral settings etc) more than realistic outdoor distance which needs specific reflections and muffling. I'm not finding presets or anything oriented around this effect. Are there any VST's designed to do this type of outdoor distance work?

Go to 4.30 onwards to hear some good examples of FX in the distance and then closer.

 

"distance" is more or less a lowpassfilter and a delay - relative to other sound sources. so to model the nature is really easy here and there is no need to record things outside.

 

Its sounds so simple then why isnt there any software to do it accurately! I did try that initially, it sounded like two effects being combined, its how games used to do it and its ok but doesn't sound 'real'.

I want the realism. There is a complex reverberation effect off landscape that isn't the same as a traditional delay. Hense the field recordings i suspect.

These guys are heavyweight sound designers, if it was easy they would have solved it in the box and moved on.

I'm now thinking maybe someone has made convolution recordings for this purpose?

 

Last edited: Feb 13, 2026 at 3:18 PM

In mixing i cut lows and high, then compress -10db gain reduction with fast attack and fast release, add some saturation and use preday on reverb, no decay

In mixing... so try and let me know if it works

 

You´ve said it, if you look up any behind the scenes like Lotr or Matrix, guys are capturing sounds from old war tunnels, underground chambers/water tanks/reservoirs, layering it with bunch of stuff and sometimes processing everything together layered thru the H9000/3000 HW etc.., doing large chunks of samples and later on finding the theme and working the same process from the different angles until they have a pallet of sounds.

https://pixeldrain.com/u/pwPFtnzq
throwing coins around the cheap mic

 

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https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=610388

 

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