Tapping on various parts of an old brass fire extinguisher with the handle end of a stanley knife; then unscrewing the top, removing it, putting it back on and screwing it again. Recorded indoors onto minidisc with ecm-ds70p condenser mic at c. 1m range, unprocessed, some background noise.
Putting a bottle and a glass on a table. Opening a fizzy water bottle. Unscrewing a metal cap. Noise of sparkles audible afterwards. Pouring fizzy water into the glass. Repeated closing and unscrewing the cap. Drinking from the glass. Recorded in the studio rec. Room with pencil shure ksm 141.
A 6-in-1 brass hammer being dismantled and put back together. I am aware that there are a few "pops" in the sound, but i am not completely sure how to remove them, so i left them there in case someone with more experience in audio editing wants them. The sounds i recorded from the smallest possible parts of the hammer are not included because they were way too quiet to be useful :1.
My nightstand's lamp is an antique, it works electrically but also has a hole to use oil with it. This is the sound of me turning it off and on then unscrewing the cap on the hole. Could be used as interesting found-sound percussion, very similar to my oil drum sounds.
Sound of a bottle being opened: unscrewing a bottle/ liquor bottle. Removing bottle cap. Recorded with a zoom h6 (rode ntg-2). Recorded in a room with good acoustic.
A container of pills being shaken, then the cap is unscrewed, and some tablets are poured out. Then they are put back in and the cap is screwed back on.
Coffee at the cottage. Started a olympus ls-10 + cheap old sony microphone, then proceeded to load the auto-drip coffee machine with coffee grounds, 4 cups of water and hit the brew button. Then, took out the old toaster, put a leftover waffle from yesterday's breakfast in, and toasted while the coffee was brewing. Various sounds accompanied with this ritual. . . Coffee maker and toaster sounds. Unscrewing and replacing the top to the nutella jar. Squeaky old oak floors of this 90 year old house making noise while i walk around. Water running, old clock on the wall ticking etc.
Here are the sounds i recorded:- the "loose parts" sounds were a slightly unscrewed valve on a trumpet. - the hydraulic leg-lifting noise was a hatch door opening on a van. - the metal foot hitting the ground was me banging on a metal garage door. - the humming engine noise (it's quiet) was a roll of duct tape spun on a wooden board. - the various other clanks and pops were the same trumpet noises, just edited a bunch. One day while playing the mobile game crossy road, i my sound being used for one of the characters. If you end up using my sound, let me know! i'd love to know what kind of things it's being used in. This is called "three-legged robot walker with loose parts" because it was a foley assignment for my sound design course years ago. This was one of the obscure things the professor gave the class that we had to interoperate and create using only our own recorded/edited foley effects. The class voted on the best one, and mine turned out to be the winner.
