19 Royalty-Free Audio Tracks for "Close Miked"

A binaural, close-miked recording of a small creek with a bit of distant bird chirping. Recorded with a zoom h4n.

A fizzing glass miked close up.

Recorded with a zoom h4n.

Recorded with a zoom h4n.

Recorded with a zoom h4n.

An electric air compressor running. Recorded with sennheiser mkh 60 connected to an zoom h6. Close-miked for less reverb.

Water splash recorded in wav 48khz 24bit using a zoom h4n and denoised.

Close-miked recording of a bicycle chain. Recorded in mono with an akg c1000s.

A set of windchimes made from seashells strung together. Close-miked, wide stereo perspective. Recorded with earsight nano microphones, dr2d. .

Occasionally flickering neon light in a small bathroom. Close-miked with a zoom h4n.

Some styrofoam tearing i recorded for a short movie in which glaciers formed. You have to get a little creative with it ;).

Loud bell from wind-up 1950s spartus timer. Repeated four times. Electro-voice bk-1 microphone, miked close, on hard wooden surface. Some ambient room noise.

Snare drum recorded stereo in shower close miked with sony pcm-d50. These are very bright. You might need to reduce the high frequencies.

Mechanical garage door closing. Creak/squeal iat the end. Left, right, left surround, right surround. Recorded with zoom h2n.

Wind-up 1950s spartus timer ticking for approximately 100 seconds. Electro-voice bk-1 microphone, miked very close, on soft surface. Some ambient room noise.

Electric organ with spinning leslie speaker cabinet turned on while the speaker winds up, then off again. . Close miked with a sony-pcmd50 in a wide stereo pattern.

Electric organ with spinning leslie speaker cabinet turned on while the speaker winds up, then off again. Close miked with a sony-pcmd50 in an xy pattern.

Recorded originally in m-s at the lake of "kloental", switzerland. Stones of various sizes, sliding, falling or bouncing on rocks. Dry sound, no ambient noise.

This is a collection of "small room reverb" impulse responses that i sampled in a new england home known as butternut lodge, built and owned by actress bette davis back in 1940. It consists of all wooden rooms with many non-parallel surfaces, rugs and furniture and includes 3 round-shaped "silo" rooms! these rooms sound clean and do not have the irritating "ping" of many rectangular rooms. Short history/pictures of butternut (https://www. Airbnb. Com/rooms/24692769?source_impression_id=p3_1659215694_liuasyfxoceab5fn). Although these round shapes (and some of the other very small rooms) could potentially wreak havoc with phase at specific frequencies when summed to mono, i recorded this using the mid/side mic technique; therefore, the "side" channels fully cancel out, leaving a clean monaural reverb signal. These irs are stored as flac files. They can be used directly by any daw without conversion and have the added feature of being id3 tagged with a photo of the room each ir is taken from. After downloading, select view -> large icons in the folder to view the rooms. I sampled each room using a swept sine wave into a jbl flip 6 bluetooth speaker; recorded through a tascam tm-st1 m/s stereo microphone, feeding a tascam dr-07 recorder @ 24-bits 44. 1 khz and deconvolved using reaper. As of this post, i've been using these rooms for about 2 weeks. So far, i've found the "garage" to sound fantastic on drums! the drum sound! also, many of the other smaller rooms have a great effect on guitars, keys, and hand percussion. Each room varies in tone and brightness, so i've found that selecting/tuning the reverb send works well if approached like an eq. Increase the effect send until the instrument "feels" right (then perhaps back off slightly). A close-miked acoustic guitar, for instance, will take on a nice brightness and 3-d quality; not particularly reverberant, just big. At that point, i recommend applying any eq, compression, and bigger-sounding reverb effects. Hopefully you enjoy this. Please let me know how you like it and if you have any suggestions. Cheers!. Ken.