Portable oil heater being dragged on its plastic wheels across a (slightly gritty) tiled floor. Close mic with tascam dr100. Cleaned up a bit (light compression).
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.
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.
Various typings on apple macbook pro 2018 computer. Close up, multiple keystrokes, single clicks in different speeds. Recorded with sennheiser mke600 mic on a zoom h5 recorder.
This is a xix of 2 matches being ignited, plus reverberation. There is also a tail with the small sound of burning from one of the matches. Originally recorded at 41kz16bit, condenser mic, very close position.
Mono, close-mic recording of a roll of gaff tape slowly being peeled back. Microphone settings: akg 414, hypercardioid pattern, no high-pass filter to maximize proximity effect.
Iphone 8s close-mic recording of a coffee grinder in a coworking space. Apologies on the background music. You can't really hear it once the grinding begins.
Direct exterior mic recording of an arrow being fired from 40lbs english longbow. Recorded on rode shotgun mic into zoom h4n. De noised/de bird atmos in rx6 then logic processing.
Close mic of wine bottles being broken in a metal tub with an aluminum baseball bat; 6 separate hits. Sound : detailed high impact glass being shattered. Rhode nt1 16bit 44. 1 mono.
12 closed hihat hits recorded in a reverberant bathroom. The hihat was recorded with a three microphone setup with a close mic mono and a wide-stereo overhead version of each sample. See my other packs for matching drum samples. More are on the way if anyone finds these usable.
Rain light/moderate falls on the balkony made out of stone. High quality recording with rode nt1a (two times, stereo-mixdown). The rain sounds very close to the mic, very clear and with all the high frequencies catched. Hope someone can use it for whatever. . . I used it as an intro in a song :-).
After spending a weekend putting together a giant wardrobe (from everyones favourite swedish furniture store) for my girlfriend i thought i should reward myself by making some recordings of it. This is a close mic recording of one of the internal draws. For this recording i used my sennheiser mkh416 going into a sound devices mp-1 preamp and recorded to a tascam dr-680.
Subject : female cat of medium size purring. Date : 220101-21location : near dijon france. Hardware : zoom h5 stock xy mic. Processing : trim only. Close recording, mic near the nostrils. Hope you enjoy :)ps: id love to hear how you use this sound, feel free to link your creations or share how/why you listen to this :).
Garage door closing, electric motor, single garage. Edited with audacity. Recorded on shock-mounted zoom h1 mic, record level 62, autogain off, gain low. Record location, inside a car in a single garage (great sound room).
Close miking of a cow eating hay. Mic got a bit wet from saliva. . . Recorded in the rural village of lunz, austria for this project: http://www. Collabor. At/projects/lunzsennheiser mkh-418 onto minidv panasonicagv100.
Close-mic sound of my disc brakes just slightly feathered (i think i need new rotors). Sounds a little like a drum loop. Recorded with sennheiser mkh50 directly through a focusrite scarlet, edited in audition.
Zoom h6 stereo mic pressed up against window being pelted by heavy rain in suburban area. Sound of overflowing gutters then as rain dies, distant sound of thunder and ticking of clock revealed.
Standard playing cards being placed on a wooden table, slides across table, tapping on table, and a few flip/hit sounds. Recorded with a zoom h5 and a xyh-5 mic at close range.
Recorded to iphone using sennheiser ambeo smart headset (binaural mic). Recorded up-close, in an art gallery. Occasional soft gallery ambience can be heard. Recorded at moma in nyc on april 21, 2021.
An up-close recording of a single cricket chirping. I recorded this with a shure beta 57a microphone, at my house, with the mic a few inches away from one of my housemate's crickets (don't ask). I used cubase and izotope denoise to remove noise artifacts, as well as a low-cut to remove unwanted low freqs. Recorded in mono but exported in stereo, so both the left and right audio channels are the same.
Car: golf rrecorder: zoom h1mic: ost lavlocation: taped to back of golf r close to exhaust, mic covered by wind protection, as driver did a lap around kyalami race track (sa).
A very squeaky door being open and closed in a recording booth, kind of spooky soundingrecorded with the nearest mic (a dynamic shure microphone, model unknown) with some noise removal applied afterwards.
Riding in building elevator during a trip to visit rrr in lowell. 0:18 - close mic elevator fan noise with weird ringing sound; 0:30 - drumming on elevator interior; 0:45ish - elevator doors opening and closing. 0:55 - "good day!".
A wooden door with rusty hinges being opened and closed very, very slowly (and then more quickly later in the recording). Mic is very close to the creaking hinge and the sound is extremely clean and direct.
Ceramic dish (and pieces) smashing on a wooden floor. Four examples, the last one on a very close perspective. 48/16 stereo, normalized -3db. Zoom h4n, built-in mic.
The sound of running water. You can hear rapids in the distance and water burbling around rocks up close. Recorded at ken lockwood gorge, in new jersey. --------------------2 primo em172 mic capsules > zoom h1.
Flushing a toilet, followed by the sound of the cistern re-filling, and dropping the lid closed. Recorded on june 01, 2021 with the on-board x-y mic of a zoom h4n pro.
A small ambience of montmartre (paris) with a musician playing hang drumsrecorder in 2016 with schoeps mic cmc622 (ortf), sound devices sd302 abd tascam dr100 mk2 recorder. Wav 24bits/ 48khz.
Tracking a bee from flower to flower, with a rode shotgun mic. Close up buzzing sounds as the bee flies around. Birdsong and a faint aeroplane noise in the background.
Walking through my local woods , on the lizard peninsula, cornwall, mainly birds with loud bees. I had the mic on a selfie stick and was holding it close to the bees, the birds were loud still.
A squeaky bathroom door recorded from a hallway with the microphone pointed at its hinges. Recorded with: nt1-a rode microphone (condenser cardioid mic)program used: reaper v5. 16/x64edited with: adobe audition.
Apple imac is a silent computer. I don't hear almost any noise from it, but i tried giving a microphone-sweep over the screen, which surprised me. You can hear various kinds of noise in a close audition. A dynamic mic.
Slow breathing almost close to mic. Could potentially be used in one of those scenes in a movie when someone is in shock or cant hear because of a bomb blast or crash or something.
Me taking dvd case from table, opening it, taking the dvd out from the case and then putting it back, closing the case and putting it back to table. Recorded with laptop mic, hum reducing and other edit done in audacity.
A few variations of a ratchet being used in a small garage. The sound is close mic-ed with still a little room ambience on it. Recording equipment: akg c214 / focusrite saffire pro 24.
