The 'Field Recording Exchange' Thread

[Ongelegen]

Just finished uploading these. I recorded some guitar string scrapes made with a coin. I had my hand on the strings to prevent them from resonating.

Granulizing + heavy overdrive unexpectedly gave me some nasty growls, for those who are interested in this kind of thing

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[mthrfnk]

Just finished uploading these. I recorded some guitar string scrapes made with a coin. I had my hand on the strings to prevent them from resonating.

Granulizing + heavy overdrive unexpectedly gave me some nasty growls, for those who are interested in this kind of thing

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Definitely going to try messing with these tomorrow.

I really should start recording things out and about instead of relying on samples.

[Artie_Fufkin]

That's a great idea wormcode. I'll have to try making some custom percussion stuff with all this stuff. I think the twig stuff would be great for tight ghost snare stuff. Maybe even hi hats if manipulated right. Are we all taking out our aggression on trees because of the KM masterclass?
The guitar scrapes are cool too. This is really opening up my mind to ideas for textures.

Oh ya I must've mucked up some of the sample when I was cutting them up from the 20 minute recording. I tried to keep the levels high enough when recording to minimize noise and only a few times did it clip when recording, but the samples I cut that are clipping are due to me having the gain slider in audacity up when I exported the selections. I was trying to rush it so I could get it uploaded before I had to leave for work. lol At first I was doing some processing(noise removal, eq for that 60Hz-ish crud) on the samples but then I was trying to rush it. While listening back, I really liked the whooshes. I'll have to do more of those with better gain levels. I had it one level for the whole thing pretty much.

Dubesteppe, your pack is pretty neat as well. Are the snap clacks multiple individual snaps put together?

[dubesteppe]

the clacks are just the individual snaps in the pack, then i sequenced them in a drum rack to get the staggered feel. i got a little to carried away with some of them :0

Project EX: what granular synth were you using? those sound really cool!

[dubesteppe]

heres a recording of me squishing celery and lettuce. theres some good textures in herehttp://dl.dropbox.com/u/27509821/Vegeta ... micide.wav
i also made a weird snare out of some of the samples i got from this thread. its weird how the textures combined to sound like water. Soundcloud

[wormcode]

That's a great idea wormcode. I'll have to try making some custom percussion stuff with all this stuff. I think the twig stuff would be great for tight ghost snare stuff. Maybe even hi hats if manipulated right. Are we all taking out our aggression on trees because of the KM masterclass?
The guitar scrapes are cool too. This is really opening up my mind to ideas for textures.

Well I used to do foley type work for indie films/short films and I'd always process them for myself to use as well. Usually need the cleanest signal possible for that stuff, but I like the dirt and noise myself so I kept separate files. Those branches if I remember correctly were for some animated/machinima type thing where the scene called for fingers being broken. That was one of the test sounds. I'll look for some more stuff but I usually would delete them since they can be huge files and I was like ''oh I can just record it again later''...

[dubesteppe]

if you have any more coool organic sounds like sticks please upload them!!

[Ongelegen]

Project EX: what granular synth were you using? those sound really cool!

Granite from New Sonic Arts, don't think it's well known, it's my secret weapon, well not anymore
Thanks for the lettuce samples.

@Artie: What equipment do you use?

@wormcode: I'd be interested, if you're willing to share, in knowing how you got into the foley work.

[hasezwei]

loving this thread, need to get out my H1 again...

problem is i live right next to a pretty busy street so theres always cars in the background. in fact the H1 seems to be best at recording cars that are 4 blocks away
i need to get a proper windscreen for it too so i can do actual field recordings outside, i did that in the winter of 2010/11. threw ice blocks around, walked on snow n shit. problem is that theres shittons of background noise :/

i mean the bg noise is part of what i like about recording outside, and capturing the natural reverb the space has. but when theres stuff like birds, planes, cars or even wind well that just fucks up everything

[Electric_Head]

The best recording I have is from the Ongelen pack that Ex had up for sale some time back.
It was a recording of an airport's daily activity.
It's an awesome recording imo.

Organic and full of life.

Just when you think it's a looped sample you hear the ding dong and an announcer speaking.

[Ongelegen]

i mean the bg noise is part of what i like about recording outside, and capturing the natural reverb the space has. but when theres stuff like birds, planes, cars or even wind well that just fucks up everything

No way around this with omni or cardioid patterns really. This is shotguns are made for. I have the same problem with traffic, mostly airplanes as I live close to the airport. Every few minutes a plain flies over

Just when you think it's a looped sample you hear the ding dong and an announcer speaking.

Haha, no loop indeed, just sat there for like 15 minutes with the mic on my head without moving or breathing too much
Will up this for the rest to check out aswell

[Electric_Head]

NOOOOOOO, that's my secret weapon

[Ongelegen]

NOOOOOOO, that's my secret weapon

So here's the ambience.

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I also recorded some safety matches just now, lighting them and extinguishing them in water. Recorded in XY.

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[mthrfnk]

I just sat and listened to that casually whilst browsing the web. Something about structured white noise sounds so nice in the background.

[Electric_Head]

i wrote an ambient tune that fades into the airport recording looped for 30 minutes. I get lost in it.

[mthrfnk]

i wrote an ambient tune that fades into the airport recording looped for 30 minutes. I get lost in it.

Upload that shit.

[efence]

hydraulic lifts, banging on pipes and sheet metal power tools and trucks.

some waves with multiple hits. Too lazy to edit

http://www.sendspace.com/file/9gzt24

[dubesteppe]

hydraulic lifts, banging on pipes and sheet metal power tools and trucks.

some waves with multiple hits. Too lazy to edit

http://www.sendspace.com/file/9gzt24

these are great! thanks !! you should post these in the field recording exchange thread http://www.dubstepforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=250284

[AxeD]

Danke

[Ongelegen]

Some very cool stuff in there! Thanks for these.

Also, this:

you should post these in the field recording exchange thread http://www.dubstepforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=250284