Blanks vs Digital Effects

[Sergei Titov]

Speaking of digital noises, it was just awful how in the "Partners" episode of Nikita, the audio mixers added SHELL CASING noises when a REVOLVER was being used. That was just painful. p.a.i.n.f.u.l.

[MoviePropMaster2008]

Originally Posted by Sergei Titov

Speaking of digital noises, it was just awful how in the "Partners" episode of Nikita, the audio mixers added SHELL CASING noises when a REVOLVER was being used. That was just painful. p.a.i.n.f.u.l.

LOL! You're kidding

[Chitoryu12]

Originally Posted by Sergei Titov

Speaking of digital noises, it was just awful how in the "Partners" episode of Nikita, the audio mixers added SHELL CASING noises when a REVOLVER was being used. That was just painful. p.a.i.n.f.u.l.

You mean like all the shows and films where they use a hammer cocking sound effect for a Glock being lifted?

[APS221]

I saw this a few weeks ago at the beginning of the pilot episode of ABC's "Betrayal."

Here you can see the crimped blank:


Here you can see the "Gabilondo y Cia." rollmarks and external extractor indicate this is a Llama. I assume this was done due to greater 9mm blank availability.