A 7200 rpm western digital hard drive spins up, idles for about 15 seconds and shuts off. Nice motor noises along with the spin up. Recorded using a zoom h1n recorder very close to the hard drive. Noise reduction and cuts made using audacity.
Dragging a metal axe across a stone / concrete paving slab. Sounds like something from an egyptian / indiana jones style booby trap. Recorded with a rode videomic pro into a zoom h5 recorder.
This is probably one of the best snares i have made yet. Hard transient, tape saturated, and squashed to bits, when played with very bright sounds and heavy bass, this really can handle it, and cut through.
There are three of these files. I used the microtrack to record them. I put the mic on an extension and stuffed it inside of an already noisy drive and ran a defrag. These files are samples of the different types of noise that i got. Basically it's a close perspective on a working/struggling hard drive.
This is a synth sound taken from a friend then ran through a frequency distortion with some eq delay. To me this sound sounds like a cyber monster from another galaxy making his existence known here.
This sound was created off my black'n'white unfamusic waveform logo. A big (5300x1200) png image was saved as 32-bit uncompressed bmp, and then imported into audacity as raw data in stereo mode, 24-bit unsigned @ 192khz.
I made this gabber-esque kick in my free time, spent a lot of time adjusting it to make it the heaviest as possible. Download wav file for higher quality.
