20 Royalty-Free Audio Tracks for "Mic Scratch"

Me scratching the mic.

Moving my mic aside while recording on high volume.

Moving my mic aside while recording on high volume.

Me slowly scratching the casing of the microphone. Don't remember which microphone, feel free to share what you use this sound for!.

Needle scratch, also used as mic rustling.

Electrostatic microphone being scratched with nails.

Roughly moving my mic to get this sound.

Another take of me scratching on a chalkboard.

A set of keys being scraped against a metal gate recorded with a contact mic.

A set of keys being scraped against a metal gate recorded with a contact mic.

I honestly can't remember if this was me moving my mic or doing another velcro sound.

Close mic, wasp scratching away at some old wood. Neumann kmr82i.

Recorded with homemade contact mic set as a stereo pair. This was attached to the zoom h5. I would describe this as experimental, with a finger nail moving between the two contact mics.

The sound of a homemade uncoated piezo-contact mic being rubbed against a giant fan. Sounds kind of creepy and weird, and the rubber around the edge of the mic caused it to bounce and make a bouncy kind of sound. Neat! zoom h4n.

Close up of a pen writing on a piece of paper. Recorded with sennheiser mke600 boom mic into zoom h5.

Rubbing a nail directly on a contact mic. This could be suitable layered as a foley sound to serve in place for writing with a pencil, pen, or chalk. If necessary, eq out some top end if it's too metallic sounding or adjust for speed and pitch.

Small wind-up toy being wound up and allowed to walk by the mic. The wind-up key is then abused a bit, making a sound not entirely unlike a scratching record (but not much like one, either).

Two sandstones scratching on each other. Recorded in a german region named "sächsische schweiz" on azoom h6 / 44. 1 khz / 16bit. I used the xyh-6 mic.

A pencil writing on some cardboard. Makes a good scratching sound for something like note taking or plain writing. It's semi-erratic with a couple pauses in between and i took different distances from the mic and angles with the pencil to try and get different sounds.

My apartment/studio was very quiet except for the steam heat so i put a mic in the middle of the room (an ear trumpet labs edwina) and put it through a lindell mic preamp and then into a focusrite 18i20 interface to record. This is the mono, 48khz, 32-bit file for your dining and dancing pleasure. Actually, it's just room tone and can be mixed judiciously to cover gaps in your own tone or to make brand new rooms from scratch.