Simulated wing flaps of a bird or other creature created by waving a heavy bath towel and then speeding it up and adding a bit of eq. Recorded with a sterling audio st51 condenser mic.
Running a corkscrew several times rapidly along the edge of a wooden desk. Recorded with minidisc and condenser mic, indoors, 6" distance. Background noise removed with audacity. Short, rattly hard noises.
Blowing bubbles through a straw into a small vase half full of water. Sony ecm-ms907 mic, using sony mz-r35 as preamp, recorded into logic pro 7, normalized. May have clipped at one point.
Made using yamaha p95 digital piano with organ voice selected with church reverb added in post (recorded through a generic laptop electret mic, sounds good enough nevertheless).
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.
Warning bells at crossing, tram bell, tram accelerating away with traffic on adjacent road. Night cityscape in quiet part of den haag. Recording: olympus ls3 + okm binaural mics.
Small wind-up toy being wound up and allowed to walk by the mic. The wind-up key is then abused a bit, making a sound not entirely unlike a scratching record (but not much like one, either).
A "bigmack" switch being operated, giving a distinctive click. This sound is recognisable to users of single message aac communicators. (aac: augmentative & alternative communication). Equipment: zoom h4n, internal mics.
Car alarm recorded on a tascam with an azden shotgun mic, with wind cover. Recorded about 4-6 feet from the front of the vehicle. Audio is straight outta recorded, no post production.
I put the recorder under a tree with what looked like hundreds of birds in it. The dripping noises are not rain but bird poo!. Zoom h1 pair of luhd mics, no filtering20-10-17_111450_zoom0001_h1_luhds. Wav.
This is what background noise sounds like when you, first set your recording to automatically reduce noise, except to get this sound, put mic on sensitive, then increase the volume. Voila! computer noise!.
Opening a can of beer. Recorded with behringer xm1800s mic through a behringer xenyx12202 mixer, m-audio410 interface, ableton live 8, some eq i think. . .
On the morning when we had a partial (around 70%) eclipse of the sun, i went outside to find it was raining. . . With very thick clouds in the sky. Olympus ls10 built-in mics.
Shaking a lego set box. Then dropping legos and handling them. Recorded using at4033 mic in adobe audition 3 and then edited and cleaned up. Normalized to -. 1.
Wandering through the floor of a casino past hundreds of different chiming slot machines. Sorry just recorded on an i-phone mic, but it's nice and long.
Kids playing in a schoolyard - rec with r1, stereo mic, 20 mt far - some beep at the middle from a working machine - birds in background - (flac compression is powerful!).
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.
