5 Royalty-Free Audio Tracks for "Chau"

A tuned chau gong from my personal collection. I made these samples long ago and only did one take per gong. So, these sounds are a bit rough, but that should do well to suit the kinds of music that would use these gongs. I have tried loading single samples from this set (especially #4) across an entire keyboard, and playing that one sample as if it were the whole set, and that has worked out well. So, if one of the gongs crashes too much or decays too quickly for your liking, it should be trivial to replace that sound with another, pitch-shifted one.

Recorded my 30" chau gong in the local church. It's tuned to ~91hz (around f/f#2). 4 mic setup:. Large d condensers for l/r channels (2)d112 for bass (1)røde ntg2 environment (2).

Chầu văn musicians during a lên đồng ritual, hanoi 2012. Audio: andrea lauser.

Recorded in summer in cheung chau, hong kong.

Recorded my 30" chau gong in the garden out back. 4 mic setup:. Large d condensers for l/r channels (2)d112 for bass (1)røde ntg2 environment (2).