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.
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.
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. . . .
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.