This is the sound of the plastic adjuster at the back of a bicycle helmet being tightened and then released - a plastic-y ratchet sound. Recorded with stereo nt1a mics in a soundbooth. No effects.
One note from an antique wind-up toy. Recorded with a relatively low-quality mic at a close distance; you can hear the machine of the music box churning and some faint ambient humming.
These are miscellaneous sounds recorded from my window during an airshow at a nearby airport. Recorded in mono with a large diaphragm condenser mic modded by michael joly. Format 44. 1/24.
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.
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.
This is a close-recording of a beehive with thousands of bees. Tools: tascam dr100 mkiii with intern mics. Some postproduction in cubase 11 with izotope rx, waves rs56 eq and soundtoys decapitator.
Recorded with my phone in a fairly busy cafe in korea. After lunch hour, beaty jazz bgm, women talking, children talking and laughing. Occasional cup filled with ice stirring closely to the mic.
I made this as jump point for another sound for a foley project for a movie. This was made using a number of chain dog leashes and my mxl mic along with an echo chamber affect in my sound editing software.
Hypnotic machine sound composed of a repetitive clicking noise backed by a loud, complex hum. Mic is repositioned several times during the recording, changing the relative loudness of the hum and click components.
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.
A selection of noises made by rubbing a wet enamel bathtub. Recorded using a cheap mono back-electret mic and an old sony minidisc recorder. Recorded hastily but i hope of use to someone.
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.
A double csx engine, idling. . . As captured from the 8th floor of my very large, very concrete home. . . Via the builtin isight mic on my 2009 macbook.
A train passed during one of my movie shoots and decided to record it. This file is untouched so there is some mic noises in the beginning. Feel free to use this file as you please.
A windy night in nantes recorded with a roland r05 (in-built mic). Air conditioning system is running on the background. A small garden with vegetation is just in front of the recorder.
Flicking a living room light switch. Recorded with behringer xm1800s mic through a behringer xenyx12202 mixer, m-audio410 interface, ableton live 8, some eq i think. . .
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.
Kitchen drawers: various sounds of opening and closing different kitchen drawers some with cutlery inside. Recorder: zoom h4n with the internal mic on 48khz with 24bit.
Street traffic during the afternoon, recorded from apartmentmono track, 24bit, 48khz. Recorded this with a shotgun mic and zoom f8. Location sound is south san diego, california. Traffic is at peak hour.
These are several cannon shots as recorded outside my window from an airshow at a nearby airport. The mic was a large diaphragm condenser modded by michael joly eng. Format is mono, 44. 1/24.
Droning on eucalyptus didgeridoo, recorded in a small room with a large-diaphragm condenser mic by user dethrok. This is a mono edited version of his sound, at url: http://freesound. Org/people/dethrok/sounds/272165/.
Small creek on a trail up to granite mountain on snoqualmie pass. A smaller trickle layered on top with eq to get rid of freeway noise. Recorded with x/y mics on a zoom h2n.
Opening a fizzy drink can (330ml). Initial hiss / open. The opening is boomy because the mic was very close, but i didn't eq it out because it sounds quite interesting.
Rain, with some splashing and trickling sounds too. Recorded with 2 devices, an olympus ls-14 digital handheld, and an audio-technica studio mic. The recordings were combined to give a wider stereo effect.
This is the sound of a single cicada that i found resting in my outdoors furniture. I picked it up and it started making this sound. I used a zoom h6 field recorded with a xy mic.
Just decided to contribute to this great website today. : ) just got my mic, and let out a good "hey. . . " llolz. Then put a nice adobe audition delay on. . . Some compression, and wahlah!!!.
Recording near a computer fan and hard drive. Not great quality recording. I had placed the mic right where all the air was blowing. Sounds best on lower volumes.
