Every morning the sprinklers turn on at my apartment, so i decided to record them turning on and off. Unfortunately, some outside ambience creeps in, but they're still fairly clean. Recorded with: sanken cs-1e, fostex fr2le.
Old-style bell alarm clock turns on, rings 4 sec, is turned off. Clock ticks once or twice before file ends. 44. 1khz 16bit mono. Neumann tlm103 through yamaha mg10/2 mixer and rnc1773 compressor into computer.
Turning on radio reciver and going through fm frequency of few polish radio stations (for only few seconds). Can be used for background noice or transision for audio. Also lots of white noise plus click noice of turning on/off (begining and ending).
A standard british lightswitch being turned on and off recorded from distances ranging from around 2 cm to around 45cm. Recorded on a wileyfox swift phone using easy voice recorder set to raw audio output.
A small hand-crank generator being turned at a slow to moderate rate. I didn't have a light bulb attached, but if i did, i imagine it would be flickering dimly at this speed.
Snippet of generator turning off taken from jeffwojo's generator startup, run, shutdown. Wav file (http://freesound. Org/people/jeffwojo/sounds/169940/) for use as a sound effect in the dark mod. Original sound file is licensed under the creative commons 0 license.
Getting a book out of the library and opening it. Flipping through it and turning the pages. Reading with the finger on one page. Browsing through all pages at once (like a flicker book). Searching for a page. Closing it and putting it back in the library.
I turned my kitchen sink on and off several times. Its a fairly noisy sink. You can hear the faucet squeaking and a high pitched hum that comes from the pipes. Once the faucet is turned off, you can hear the water running down the drain.