140 Royalty-Free Audio Tracks for "Contact Mic"

Recording of myself playing a home-made instrument constructed from a large suspended metal door affixed with bits of thin aluminum sheeting of varying sizes and bent at varying angles. I "played" this by striking and plucking the bits of aluminum and recording the results through a piezo contact mic adhered to the door.

Underwater contact-mic recording of bubbles coming out of my son's toy fishing pole in the bathtub.

Slams of skin to skin contact. Recorded it using my palm and arms. Used for a sexual intercourse scene in a short film. Used an audio-technica boom mic with tascam dr60dm2.

Corrugated cardboard box being cut with a serrated knife. Recorded with a cold gold buffered contact mic.

Contact mic recording of a tarp stretched on an abandoned raft in a reservoir. 24-bit mono wav, unprocessed.

Human open packet eat biscuit - some mic contact as this is raw unedited file. . Nueman 87 motu preamp to digital performer.

Contact mic recording of a stretched tarp on an abandoned raft in a reservoir. 24-bit mono wav, unprocessed.

Weird sound like an alien or a odd insect, created with wood and contact mic, in mono.

Rolling and stopping a large plastic container (for trash), sound of the wheels. Recorded in mono with h5n and a contact mic.

Emp of a cell phone ringing on vibrate. Indoor. Recorded on zoom h2 with contact mic.

Free drone. Recorded using homemade contact microphones. The os-xx samples consist of different recordings of fans, fridges, espressomachines, etc. The sounds are pretty raw, i added reverb, and cut some sub. I can, on request hand out the raw recordings. Enjoy.

Industrial machine that crushes and punches, a loopable sound created by hands. Recorded with h5n and a contact mic.

The emp of a cell phone when it is on, but not active. Indoor. Recorded on zoom h2 with contact mic.

Various gun effects i created using:different snare drums and floor tomslight switch for trigger clickthrowing coins into a bowl recorded with a contact mic for shell casings.

The sound is a contact mic'ed piece of pvc pipe which has a drawstring from a pair of shorts tied to it. The sound is the drawstring being plucked. It's could be good for bass lines. The sound was processed slightly in goldwave (some noise reduction/eq adjustments/fading).

Yidan's heartbeat recorded with a homemade contact mic and added eq and compression. If you're willing please share a link of how you used this sound!.

A stretched out slinky with a contact mic adhered to one end being struck, resulting in strange laser-like "zwap" sounds and other even stranger noises.

A stretched out slinky with a contact mic adhered to one end being struck, resulting in strange laser-like "zwap" sounds and other even stranger noises.

The emp of a cell phone making an outgoing call. Indoor. Recorded on zoom h2 with contact mic.

Purring cat on my sofa. Very deep.

This sample was created by taping a razor blade to a contact microphone and allowing the blade to scrape against the edge of a record spinning on a turntable. The reverb was added in real time, so there's not a dry signal recording. Very reminiscent of tg's "hamburger lady" in some ways. Sounds like a human voice almost.

I made this sound with a samson meteor usb mic its kinda distorted and compressed to death so its basically some kind og hit sound. Contact me if you use it ! :).

Microphone handling sounds for found footage and handheld recorder-style sound design, to give a realistic sense of device handling without adding a disruptive amount of noise to dialogue or environmental sound. I was looking for this on here and couldn't find it, so i made it myself. I figure other people could probably use it too, once in a while. Made by handling and adjusting my microphone, as indicated.

A small heavy metal paperweight being dropped on a plastic bag. Recorded with: nt1-a rode microphone (condenser cardioid mic)program used: reaper v5. 16/x64edited with: adobe audition.

This is the composition made with the students of metàfora art school in barcelona in their first date with a handy recorder and soundscape concept.

Ticking s/fx. Good for many clock or watch sounds. It is actually a taylor mechanical kitchen timer. It was recorded with a contact mic in anechoic chamberclock_02 is the same timer but was recorded with an external mic, and has a thinner sound, more like a wrist watch type sound. All the files in this pack can be seamlessly looped.

This is a compilation of freesound files. It is intended as background atmospheric sound. I find it stands by itself, so i am uploading it as is, though i added more layers to it as "scary night complete". Loops, cycling from calm night through a windy, brief storm. Really ought to be longer, but. . . Formed from:171984__kyster__massive-hail-and-two-deep-thunderbolts-2012-11-02191934__klankbeeld__creacking-oak-6bft-short-130418-0023405__neilg__rainonleaves-june2006245824__1ratatosk1__nightscapes-asplund-ett-min253535__kvgarlic__windblownleavesskitteringacrossasphaltoct31st2014267551__yoyodaman234__thunder2267550__yoyodaman234__thunder3267549__yoyodaman234__thunder4272322__klankbeeld__wind-in-willow-02-contact-mic-150426-064462488__sagetyrtle__1103octobernight83985__inchadney__owls. The two main tracks are 62488__sagetyrtle__1103octobernight (a lovely autumnal evening) and 272322__klankbeeld__wind-in-willow-02-contact-mic-150426-0644 (which i stretched in audacity for the underlying groaning as well as using as is).

This is from a recording session trying to create laser weapon sounds. I just used the same technique as ben burtt used in wall-e (with the slinky and the contact mic). This is unprocessed, no eqs, compression, reverb or anything was added. I used a long piece of curled up aluminum wire which i hung from a tall structure at my house and the main object i used to oscillate the wire was a drum stick. For the recording i used the blue icicle and recorded into reaper. The contact mic is my own creation from a diy i found online (roughly €5 to make). I hope you find this useful! please feel free to use it, whenever and however you want to. If you create something awesome and you're proud of it i'd love to see it!.

A slinky spring toy stretched out and plucked once from the end, recorded with a zeppelin design labs cortado impedance-matched piezo contact microphone. The resulting recording is a classic spring-based sci-fi "laser sound" with a massive, lengthy, rumbling decay tail. This was recorded at 24 bit 96 khz. In addition to its use as a sound effect, this waveform works well inside a convolution reverb as an offbeat spring reverb impulse response, provided one has the processor power and ram to support a 2 minute 13 second convolution. The cortado's bass response is exceptionally large for a contact mic, so high pass filtering may be desired if used as an impulse response.

I noticed one night my broken metallic glass screen door was making quite a ruckus in the wind. I grabbed my zoom h1 and a roll of duct tape and taped it to the interior portion of the door. I proceeded to record the semi-contact-mic results here in at 96 khz / 24 bit. Plenty of good stuff to pull from here, imo. Hope you can get some use out of this one. Enjoy.

Contact microphone on a holly bush.

Two custom contact mics clipped to a moka pot whislt heated on a gas hob. The sound of the metal expanding can be clearly heard and the coffee flow sound is audible towards the end of the recording. Tascam dr-22wl, custom stereo contact microphones20-05-10_091458_dr-22wl_moka_coffee_contact. Wav.

Dropped two contact mics at the surface of an anthill. Recorded with jrf contact mics in serrinha do alambari, state of sao paulo, brazil in sound devices mixpre-6 96khz 24 bits.

Ninebot z10 electric wheel recorded with jezz ryley french stereo contact mics + art audio dual active dbox + sound devices mixpre6.

Since i was walking in the riaza river gorges i saw a lot of ants on the remains of an animal. I put over a pair of contact mics trying not to disturb to the ants. Maybe the sound you can hear in this audio is produced by the ants eating or the. "hoces del río riaza" natural park (segovia) / 2010-09-04 11:00.

Two contact microphones recording an engine from a mini cooper s in sport mode. Surprisingly aggressive-sounding. Intended to use for a race car asset. Contact microphones are stethoscope-like mics that you place onto a surface to record vibrations. This way, i was able to record the raw engine without wind or perspective. The left channel is the chassis and the right is the engine block. . . Blending the two together produces a great sound. Free to use.

Raindrops hitting my bedroom window. Recorded in carson, ca. Used a zoom h6 with the xy attachment and windscreen on, pressed mics against window for a contact recording. This was done in order to capture full resonance of the glass. (geotag is not at my actual address, but a nearby location. ).

Recordings of a home made instrument of david bithells called sun ra, recordings by ali momeni. Instrument is made of metal springs extending from a large calabash shell; recordings made with a pair of earthworks mics, and a number k&k; contact microphones, mixed down to stereo. Dynamics are indicated by pp (soft) to ff (loud); name indicates action recorded.

This sample is part of the icefield-library. I used a pair of soundman okm2 mics as contact microphones which i fixed to the surface of a frozen lake, then recorded the sounds made by throwing or skimming several stones and pebbles across the ice. Wonderful effects can also be achieved by filtering or timestretching the files.

Soundtrack by students from escola santa anna school during sons de barcelona’s workshop “caçadors de sons” at the joan miró foundation in barcelona. A workshop in which we are introduced to some tools and methodologies of sound art from the practice of field recording. The sounds have been recorded with portable recorders, some of them using special microphones such as contact mics and electromagnetic coils; the soundtrack has been edited in audacity.