A simple guitar gesture played on a blueridge br-63 with old strings, recorded with a zoom h4n about 8 inches away from and pointed at the sound hole, reduced to mono with audacity. This sound was recorded for the purposes of harmonic + stochastic analysis in xavier serra's coursera class, audio signal processing for music applications.
High e played on an acoustic gibson jumbonormalized to -3db with audacity. The guitar was recorded with a single microphone (a brauner phantera) connected to an api pre-amp. The signal was fed into a digidesign a/d converter and recorded in protools 9 in waveform audio file format. All the samples were subsequently edited with the gpl software audacity. Location milano, italy. 2013.
High e played on an acoustic gibson jumbo. The guitar was recorded with a single microphone (a brauner phantera) connected to an api pre-amp. The signal was fed into a digidesign a/d converter and recorded in protools 9 in waveform audio file format. All the samples were subsequently edited with the gpl software audacity. Location milano, italy. 2013.
This is a glass shower screen being cleaned with a squeegee. I recorded it as it sounds a bit like someone trying to play a saxophone badly. As raw material it could easily be processed into a number of interesting sounds.
A door knob is twisted and then released. Schoeps cmc6-uxt/mk41 > sound devices mixpre-6 @ 24/96 +46db gain > adobe audition (edit, nr, normalization, downsampling) > flac.
Recording of a glass squeak using a wet finger rubbing over a glass window pane to create a squeaking sound. Recorded in a bedroom using a zoom h6 recorder.
A few different strums of the em chord on an acoustic guitar. Varying volumes and attacks present. Recorded using a tascam dr-40x over the air (no pickup).
