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The sound of movie gunfire came from a whip
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Firing an actual blank on a vintage recording stage sounded more like a pathetic pop than lethal danger. To make showdowns sound appropriately deadly, audio engineers completely abandoned reality and heavily mixed the sharp, terrifying crack of a leather whip into every single gunshot, inventing a sound that never existed.
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