One of Baldur's Gate 3's sound designers studied blacksmithing and made a pair of metal shoes just to record armor clanking noises for the game
"In Baldur's Gate 3, when you wear shoes with metal on them, we wanted them to have a unique sound layer of metal clanks," explains one of Baldur's Gate 3's sound designers, Glenn Goa, in a video demonstrating where he sourced the sound effect. "I made some sabatons in the forge (I learned blacksmithing) and recorded an hour session of walking on various surfaces with them loosely on."..
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