Chinese traditional festival. Ambience recorded in a public area with children laughing, running, people chatting etc using, using ipod touch with iprorecorder application.
Neighbour cutting a trunk with his gasoline-powered chainsaw (with leightly blunt sawteeth). Recorded with zoom h2nmic settings: mid/side 0 ( = 120°) / mid-mic directed towards the actiondistance: 25 meter from the actionaudio: 44. 100 hz; 16 bit; stereo, pcm wave file.
An explosion, blowing very close a "vocal mic: sennheiser md 431", wavelab octavic harmonics, multiband eq to cut all except low-mids, clean comp-wavelab, reverb, reshaping envelope via wavelab button "v".
Recorded at hallsands, south devon, uk. Zoom h6 positioned on shingle beach approx 3 metres from water. Sounds of waves on shingle beach as tide approaches for evening high tide.
On this lo-fi recording, corn grains are sitting in a frying pan and begin to pop as the oil is hissing. It provides an interesting and regular popping sound suitable for mid-range frequencies. The recording is done with a tie-microphone, and extra treatment is done on audacity to reduce noise and isolate the sound.
Bees with a frenzied interest in the pollen or sap coming off the leaves of an aspen tree in my back yard. Distant construction equipment audible. Mic stand below the tree, mid-side stereo array pointed 'forward' nearly straight up at tree limbs/leaves. Audio technica at4040 (mid) at4050 (side) > sound devices mixpre-6 @ 24/96 +46db gain > adobe audition (edit, eq, 'mastering exciter/loudness/width') > flac.
Exclusively done with logic pro. . Main sounds used are violins n persian santoor to give that mid-east feel to it. I named it waiting, coz i feel thats what its use for in a clip where you have a brief intersession. . . Pondering , contemplating or whatever. . . .
Bristol road, birmingham, mid-morning friday traffic including sound of a pedestrian crossing. H2 zoom front mic, wind shield, not too much wind noise, sitting on the steps of the old christian science reading room with recorder facing towards crossing.