16 Royalty-Free Audio Tracks for "Broken Microphone"

Recorded with a broken omnidirectional microphone.

A broken microphone being moved around to make glitch distortion sounds. Warning: loud.

Banging a broken light bulb against my microphone.

Recorded with a broken hähnel microphone attached to sony camera while moving headphones around it.

Just a bad mic.

Recording on my broken microphone on audacity.

A western digital drive refusing to mount. Recorded on a sennheiser me66 k6 microphone, in camera on a sony nex fs700. Hum in the background is the air-conditioned office.

Dropped two lightbulbs on concrete ground!recorded with a unampliefied field recording microphone in stereo.

A creepy recording of laughing echo and beeping noise. Made by recording the sound of laughter on broken lavalier microphone.

Recorded from inside a car going ~65mph with a broken skullcandy headset microphone. All windows were open.

I've made this sound with my broken old microphone and then edited it in audacity.

Small batch of popsicle sticks being broken. Cleaned up in audacity, recorded with fifine usb microphone w/condenser.

Small batch of popsicle sticks being broken. Second recording. Cleaned up in audacity, recorded with fifine usb microphone w/condenser.

Some heavy analog glitching achieved by plugging and unplugging my old microphone into a broken audio card. Processed using audacity. You are free to use it anywhere and mix it with anything. No credits required. If used, feel free to leave a link to your product in comments :).

This was recorded by holding a small pcm recorder (zoom h1n) very close to an ipod 4th generation. The ipod was turned on and its hard drive tried to start up. You can hear the spin up of the motor and the hard drive head clicking back and forth. The hard drive fails to power up completely and eventually shuts down again. A 350 hz high pass filter was applied, in addition to audacity noise reduction, to get this clean motor noise from the original recording. The stereo file was then mixed to mono because the mic was slightly off center from the ipod, and the stereo provides no benefit. The hard drive in this ipod is a 1. 8" 40 gb toshiba hard drive, the ipod model is a1059. The microphone was held just 3 cm (1. 2 in) from the ipod. Recording settings were stereo 44. 1 khz at 16 bit (wav format). The file is the same except it's mono.

Damaged smartphone screen protector being broken and crushed in bare hands (should've used gloves. . . ). Recorded with behringer b-1 microphone into focusrite scarlett 2i2 3rd gen. Into audacity on arch linux at 192 khz/24 bit. The recording was not processed or edited in any way to retain maximum flexibility to sound artists who will use this as an element. This can be useful as a sound effect for freezing or burning or deep-frying or even rain (when slowed down). Thanks to extremely wide frequency range the recording can be cleanly slowed down up to 25% speed. There's clean frequency content up to 80 khz in the recording. In a few places the mic gain was too much and a pop is clipped, but could still be useful for sound of braking or snapping something (bone?). No denoising was applied - perform your own if needed, though the sounds are mostly free of background hum (a bit of pc noise can be heard in the first minute before i turned down the gain).