A couple of ir from a field recording at carnarvon gorge amphitheatre, a very subtle sandstone acoustic, not a big reverb, but warms up a flute nicely. . . . This place is an ancient aboriginal initiation site.
A drum pattern in 11/8 time. Someone on freesound's forums requested some strange timings for drum patterns, so i programmed these for them. Decided to make an entire pack up.
Mixture of electronic and mechanical siren systems from three neighbouring cities during a tornado warning in eastern iowa. The wind hadn't really picked up yet but there is quite a bit of rain. Eerie yet relaxing.
My circuit bent speak and spell run through the live cut plug-in. Tons of possibilities here to cut it up for one shots are use bigger pieces for loops.
I was mucking about with a new mic when i started playing around with audacity and came up with this. I don't know what it sounds like, but it sounds kind of spacey so i named it spaceship. This was made with my voice and audacity.
Was trying to get some radio noise and the sound of it being switched off. Some ad flicks up briefly. The radio is an old my grandfather used. Recorded on tascam dr-1 with omni mics.
This is the sg90 micro servo, hooked up to an arduino circuit i made so i can control the position of the servo with a potentiometer. Recorded very close with ksm141 in omni.
Match being lit-up on the side of the matchbox, then flame being blown out at the end. Recorded using the smartphone's voice notes app. The audio was cut and converted from. M4a to. Wav using reaper.
From the source: "this is a multisample of my stylophone as i move up the notes then after reaching the top i sweep upwards on the notes. this is of moderate quality, is a dry signal, but it is probably badly out of tune"
Walking stairs with shoes: various speed of walking with heel shoes up and down some wood staris. Recorder: zoom h4n with the internal mic on 48khz with 24bit.
Stereo recording of a birthday sparkler. Starts with a match being struck. Very close up. Recorded on a sony tcd-d3 dat with a sennheiser mke 2002 binaural mic.
Eight "croaks" on a wooden frog guiro, recorded on samson q2u. All "croaks" here are made by dragging the playing stick up the frog's back in the same direction each time.
A small bass drum sound i whipped up in about ten or fifteen minutes; this one with a techno/hardcore vibe. Made in audacity using tone generators and various effects.
This is a short extract from a sound installation 'the ocean misses a beat' commissioned for a festival in plymouth, uk and subsequently presented in chester as part of the 'up the wall' festival. It features recordings of the sea i made at heybrook bay in devon.
I'm dragging the toilet tank lid across the tank. I used it for a marble slab being pried off of a tomb. Recorded on my samsung galaxy j7 while i'm saving up for a real recorder.
A brief ripping sound of tearing cloth. It could also be used for sticky tape being yanked off the roll. (my apologies for the bird calls in the background, field-recordings are difficult in a rural area. ).
Recording of the sea bashing into rocks at the shore into a little cave system. Used a 4 channel recording set up with two in-ear binaural microphones by soundman and a zoom h4n.
This is a short sound clip where i just crumpled up a page then threw it in the bin. This was done in a school library, i feel it also adds to the feel of the sound.
So my doctor prescribed me an awesome bottle of penicillin. I recorded myself picking it up, shaking it, and dropping a single pill. Extract what you wish from it.
Table saw & boards picked-up. Recorded with sound devices 633 and scheopes cmit 5u microphone. Clip taken from a woodworking program i recorded for pbs. Raw audio, no sweetening.
I recorded this with my yamaha pocketrak at mcdonald's when the whole soccer team showed up. Edited on sony vegas with one track duplication. Please comment on what you will use it for. Thanks. :^).
Decided to try recording a rainstorm passing by in florida and ended up pretty good. Feel free to use this in anything you want. Comment a link to what you used it in but you don't have to :).
This is the first sound from me to everyone! there will be many more coming soon. Sign up on twitter @raph_web3 and i'll be posting lots of free quality sounds here. Recorded on a dr100 mk3 tascam.
Close up on the wood. A log splitter is working in the forest. The wood is splitting. Recorded with 2 em172 in ab setuprecorded on sounddevice mixpre6wave stereo 24 bits 48khzfrance, june 2022.
Mainly a field recording of many little chicken. Background sounds of grown up ones, in the beginning very close crow of a rooster. Recorded with tascam dr 40.
Various trains passby:train passby, squeetching wheels, rythmic train mechanics. Build up, fast and slow passby. Recorded with a zoom h4 (120 degree setting), at night in düsseldorf, germany. Unprocessed.
you win, "level complete", power-up etc. Effect. Good for retro games. Originally created for element puzzle:http://suntemple. Co/html5/element-puzzle-game.
Acoustic sound of a gibson 335. Playing note d3 and then sliding up to a3. It was recorded october 2015-11-17 using an iphone 6 running the app take creative vocal recorder by propellerhead. .
Water and laundry sloshing about the inside of a washing machine during the agitate cycle, recorded first up close (with mic nearly inside machine) and then from a few feet away.
My heartbeat recorded using a shure dynamic microphone and adobe audition. Sounds very dark, my sunblind vibrates when i'm turning the volume up far enough :d.
I've recorded myself firing up, smoking the cigarette; then dampening it down in the metal ashtray. Mic: audio technica at2050, cardioid, off-axis. Through art tube mp preamp.
Oof, i'm back after, like, a year. I'm having a creational block but i came up with this, it's very short and could potentially be used in ambient climactic music? maybe? i don't know the choice is yours.
Recorded with the uni mics on a tascam dr-100 on feb, 2012 on a road known as carretera austral in southern chile. Cleaned up some noise with izotope rx.
Very cristalin stream, romania, maramuresh, 2016. Close up recording, about 40 centimeters from above the stream in a silent forest. Recorded with shoeps ab ortfrecorded on cantar x248khz, 16 bits.
