Simulated wing flaps of a bird or other creature created by waving a heavy bath towel and then speeding it up and adding a bit of eq. Recorded with a sterling audio st51 condenser mic.
Running a corkscrew several times rapidly along the edge of a wooden desk. Recorded with minidisc and condenser mic, indoors, 6" distance. Background noise removed with audacity. Short, rattly hard noises.
Voice announcement of incoming train at back bay train station, boston. Recorded using sony mz0-r90 portable minidisc recorder and sony ecm-ms907 stereo mic.
Blowing bubbles through a straw into a small vase half full of water. Sony ecm-ms907 mic, using sony mz-r35 as preamp, recorded into logic pro 7, normalized. May have clipped at one point.
Ambeo recording of the entrance of a beehive in autmn while wesps were attacking to kill some bees and drag them to their hive. Recording made with an sennheiser ambeo vr mic on a zoom f8. Handling noises at the beginning and the end.
I folded a belt in half and pushed it inwards and pulling it outwards violently about 30 cm away from the mic. This was recorded at the open window institute sound booth in centurion, south africa.
Binaural recording of onions being peeled, cut on a small wooden board and fried in a pan. Refrigerator hum in background. Mics: vt403 mounted in ears.
Lighting an electronic cigarette lighter from komazawa, tokyo, japan. The lighter is emblazoned with the word "tadaima" = welcome home. Recorded in mono with an akg 414, fredenstein mic amp, rme fireface interface into pro tools.
A rapid-fire machine gun sound. I made it through firing a nerf alphastrike stinger, speeding it up, pitch and all, and then repeating it. Recorded in my bedroom with a gaming headset mic.
Made using yamaha p95 digital piano with organ voice selected with church reverb added in post (recorded through a generic laptop electret mic, sounds good enough nevertheless).
Recorded with an mxl condenser mic placed at some distance from a plastic clock. It give a bit more realism because there is some acoustics from the room.
Sitting outside kc8 kings college listening to footsteps, voices, seagulls and echoes associated with king's college quadrant. Olympus ls3, internal mics, 24 bit.
Walking though the foot tunnel beneath union st, aberdeen, scotland following echoing footsteps with traffic noise above. Olympus ls3, internal pre-amp + okm binaural mics.
Listening to warning bells and tram going over crossing. Traffic with emergency vehicle sirens in background. Recording: olympus ls3 + okm binaural mics.
Several foleys of a metal music stand being manipulated: dragging it on a wooden floor, making it creak, opening and closing its legs. Mic: schoeps c-mit 5.
Atmosphere at dawn in the inner courtyard of a hotel on the beach. Birds. Recorded with omnidirectional mics and zoom f8 48000/24. The balcony is in puerto escondido, méxico.
Leaning on my computer chair that desperately needs some wd-40. This time, my mic is a bit further away, as well as an accidental thump. For reasons i cannot control, there may be noise.
Cleaning up some dialog on a film here is the heart beat picked up by the 2 actresses cuddling, only a second or so - but you probably couldnt have planted the mic better on purpose!!.
On the morning when we had a partial (around 70%) eclipse of the sun, i went outside to find it was raining. . . With very thick clouds in the sky. Olympus ls10 built-in mics.
Kids playing in a schoolyard - rec with r1, stereo mic, 20 mt far - some beep at the middle from a working machine - birds in background - (flac compression is powerful!).
Recording of me lighting a cigarette with a disposable lighter. Noise reduction used. Recorded at home on conexant smart audio with at2020 usb mic, processed with audacity.
Portland, or trimet bus pulling away from curb and taking off down the road. Recorded using a sony shotgun mic with a minidisc capturing device in 2000.
