I have a lot of old hard drives, some of which are still working and others are damaged. My project is collect the sounds produced during start-up. To do this i use a digital recorder zoom h4n using the two incorporated microphones and two 'diy'ed contact microphones additionally. This here is the sound of a western digital caviar 32500 working fine.
Below a bridge/overpass. Cars pass overhead, causing sharp thumping sounds across the stereo field that reverberate through the large concrete space below.
The sound of our basketball bouncing in a tall-roofed structure that produced a slight echo on the metal ceiling. Enhanced the echo noise with a reverb effect.
This is the sound of a plastic garbage can sliding across a cement floor. Recorded in stereo on a sound devices mixpre3ll with a pair of audio technica at943 microphones.
A standard british lightswitch being turned on and off recorded from distances ranging from around 2 cm to around 45cm. Recorded on a wileyfox swift phone using easy voice recorder set to raw audio output.
Egg timer - three long turns, three short turns, alarm on egg timer goes off. Timer ticking occurs between turns. 44. 1khz 16bit mono. Neumann tlm103 through yamaha mg10/2 mixer and rnc1773 compressor into computer.
The 7th unused loop in our collection. Has a dupstep'ish pace with a clap after every 8 bars. I have added a very basic bass line, which in this loop has some slight wobble.
Close mic'd recording of the peeling of a single cob of corn. Multiple pulls, sound unedited. Recorded in m/s with a schoeps cmit and cmc6 w/ mk8 capsule on a sound devices 633. Decoded to l/r stereo.
