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A broken fridge at a place i work sometimes. Starts off sounding normal enough but then slowly starts going crazy, i'm no refrigeration expert but i'm pretty sure there's something wrong here. Made me jump when it makes that first noise :p.

Playing the alto sax with no mouthpiece, like a brass instrument. The attack starts below pitch and scoops up.

Lovely intricate birdsong. . . Keep listening, it starts to sing a little into the recording.

Distant lawnmower straining and sputtering. At 1 minute, second nearby lawnmower starts. Common sounds of suburban u. S. On weekends.

The sound of thunder with police sirens in the background and it starts to rain harder.

Two sparklers recorded simultaneously about 25cm apart and 30cm from the mics. Starts with two matches being lit at once.

Recorded with neumann kmr82i and at2050 in mid/side.

Starts out on wooden floor with some squeaky shoes, then enters carpeted area. Carpet area has a bunch of random speeds. Enjoy!.

Recorded in sugar city co on main street. One pick-up starts and another one drives by.

Static with pops from dead air on a radio station. Starts with a drone which fades from the background.

A single sparkler recorded very close up(~15cm), and sparks occasionally hits the capsules :o. Starts with match being lit.

Starts off slow and then builds quickly, recorded outside in a swamp. At one point there is a vehicle in the background.

It starts to rain, the spring shower is gradually gaining strenght, drops of water falling on the tin window sill.

Light rain in the forest, a cat-bird, thunder starts around 00:00:40.

Thunder storm. Starts with a burst of thunder followed by rain. Recorded on the isle of wight, england with zoom h4.

This is the loop from voyage by steam where everything starts to calm down again after a rough section.

Washing machine doing its thing. . . Dryer starts up; buzzers sound. Essential to collections in the laundry genre.

This is a quick fire sound i made using qubodup's "swing 25" public domain/cc0 upload on this site. It's a bamboo stick swinging, which i layered and toyed with to get the results here. For those curious, here are the steps. * i took the file into reaper, and slowed the file's playback rate to 31% of the original. * i then duplicated the file three times, for a total of 4 tracks. * track 1 (lowish gas-burner sound):- reverb (drum-room impulse response, a medium-sounding reverb with a slight deadness to it. In free impulse loader reverberate le, stretched impulse to 150% and set attack time to 0. 218s). - eq (-8db bandpass near 200hz, rising back to 0 by the 1k mark. Low-pass applied at 5. 8khz). * track 2 (lowest of sounds, like a bassy gas-burner):- chorus effect. That's it. (specifically acon digital multiply, a free plugin, set to the "romantic" preset). * track 3 (not as low as track 2, but closer to track 2 than 1)- reverb (a large hall impulse response. No adjustments, ie. No increased attack or stretching like for track 1. ). -chorus doubler (free plugin duet, preset: "basic doubler. " same effect as if i had doubled the track and pitched one up 6 cents. ). - chorus (free plugin acon digital multiply, preset: "romantic. "). * track 4 (most flame-thrower, whooshy of tracks. )- reverb (impulse response says "hall medium," but it's a thick, even echo from start to finish. Makes the sound go from its default "whoosh" to a flamethrower noise. - chorus doubler (duet again, preset: basic doubler). - chorus (acon digital multiply, preset: "romantic. "). Master bus:. - compressor (tdr kotelnikov mastering compressor, the free successor to the tdr feedback compressor ii. Preset: punchy. Thresh: -20. 9, soft knee: -1. 5, ratio: 2:0:1, attack: 7. 0 ms, release peak: 70 ms, release rms: 165 ms, makeup: 1. 5 db, output: 2. 0 db. That's it.

Early spring thunderstorm in north central oklahoma recorded on 05/02/2018 starting at about 9:30 pm cdt. Recorded in the middle of the country by placing a mic outside the man cave window of my house. The storm starts with light rain and some medium distance thunder. At about 4:00 mins the wind starts to pick up and by 5 mins the wind sound drowns out everything else (50-60 mph gusts). By 6:00 mins the wind is fading as the storm front passes. By 9:00 mins it’s just soft rain and occasional thunder. At about 13:00 mins, the thunder starts picking up a bit. At about 17:00 mins it starts raining harder again, with occasional thunder, until the end. A couple of human noises were edited out, and noise reduction was applied.

It starts with a little click i've recorded, then processed through a granulator called dropout, + a little layer of reverb.

Rainy night in wellington, new zealand. Starts inside, then i opened the door. Recorded on a zoom h4, built in mics.

I recorded this sound back in 2002. Starts with some hissing, then cuts to the sound from a blow dryer in a public bathroom.

Piece of a recording made during a thunderstorm in june 8 2008. The rainfall starts with a thunder in the background.

Opening and closing the door of a cloths dryer where closing the door starts the dryer.

Ambience of audience applauses before the concert starts. Recorded in barcelona in 2007. 48khz - 16 bit.

Skil-brand handheld jigsaw. Some stops & starts, then an extended drone. Recorded indoors using a zoom h4n with built-in mics.

On the train platform in jakarta, indonesia. Portable cassette recorder. March 1994.

Field-recording of a thunderstorm starts with rain and nice rolling thunder. Recorded with zoom h1.

Foaming milk in a breville espresso maker with the steamer shallow inside the decanter before the foam starts to rise.

Rain falling in an urban backyard. Starts pretty heavy, then gradually fades down. Recorded with a zoom h2n in stereo x/y mode.

A train leaving scarborough station. (see train engine starts. Wav) for the sound of this train getting ready to leave. - recorded with my zoom h2 -.

Medium size non-window (ground) air conditioning unit starts up, runs, then shuts off.

Recorded in the boqueria market in barcelona, this recordings starts with a man singing and after that we hear other people talking and ambient noise.

More sounds of my japanese wife masturbating. Starts off a little quiet but becomes louder as she gets close to climaxing.

H1 zoom. Bells just keeping ringing for many minutes. Starts win one ring and then another one. Stopped recording after a few minutes.

A bunch of sounds recorded from a car, sounds include door closes, key turns, engine starts and brake shifts.

A jackhammer working outside recorded from inside the lobby. Some starts and stops. Ambient lobby sounds as well.

This is a stereo recording of an ambulance passing by. It starts with wail, yelp, then back to wail again. Hope you like.

Starts with soft raining, rain gets stronger, at the end a deep thunder far away. Recording with high quality stereo condenser mircophone.

Recording of the elevator 'beep' sound when the elevator starts moving. Recorded in the elevator in the focus: hope engineering building, detroit mi.

White noise sweep, put through a flanger and phaser. It starts at the centre of the stereo field, then pans out wide.

A forest / woodland, during this recording it starts to rain lightly. Recorded on a stereo audio technica bp4025 into a zoom f8 mixer.

There's this woodpecker that likes to bang his head on the aluminum ladder that hangs near the chicken coop. He starts at first light usually.

Gas-powered leafblower. Starts in distance, gets closer, then recedes again. Recorded with the zoom h4n in 48k/24bit.

Distant dry thunder, wind, starts to rain becomes heavy wash then stops. Neumann kmr82i and at2050 in mid/side. Toronto.

This is the sound generated by a leg extension machine once someone starts, and when someone is done using it.

The same as my other fire whoosh sound, but i used a hi-pass eq at the 50hz mark to take out some of the "mud. ". --. This is a quick fire sound i made using qubodup's "swing 25" public domain/cc0 upload on this site. It's a bamboo stick swinging, which i layered and toyed with to get the results here. For those curious, here are the steps. * i took the file into reaper, and slowed the file's playback rate to 31% of the original. * i then duplicated the file three times, for a total of 4 tracks. * track 1 (lowish gas-burner sound):- reverb (drum-room impulse response, a medium-sounding reverb with a slight deadness to it. In free impulse loader reverberate le, stretched impulse to 150% and set attack time to 0. 218s). - eq (-8db bandpass near 200hz, rising back to 0 by the 1k mark. Low-pass applied at 5. 8khz). * track 2 (lowest of sounds, like a bassy gas-burner):- chorus effect. That's it. (specifically acon digital multiply, a free plugin, set to the "romantic" preset). * track 3 (not as low as track 2, but closer to track 2 than 1)- reverb (a large hall impulse response. No adjustments, ie. No increased attack or stretching like for track 1. ). -chorus doubler (free plugin duet, preset: "basic doubler. " same effect as if i had doubled the track and pitched one up 6 cents. ). - chorus (free plugin acon digital multiply, preset: "romantic. "). * track 4 (most flame-thrower, whooshy of tracks. )- reverb (impulse response says "hall medium," but it's a thick, even echo from start to finish. Makes the sound go from its default "whoosh" to a flamethrower noise. - chorus doubler (duet again, preset: basic doubler). - chorus (acon digital multiply, preset: "romantic. "). Master bus:. - compressor (tdr kotelnikov mastering compressor, the free successor to the tdr feedback compressor ii. Preset: punchy. Thresh: -20. 9, soft knee: -1. 5, ratio: 2:0:1, attack: 7. 0 ms, release peak: 165 ms, release rms: 165 ms, makeup: 1. 5 db, output: 2. 0 db. That's it.

Recording starts from inside house, then bit out side. Ends with quick burst of circular saw. Gas man came to dig hole. Mono recording with nt 1.

Actual foghorn of detour reef lighthouse in upper peninsula, michigan. Starts loud then gets quieter as the compressed air runs out. Recorded with a sony pcm.

This recording is a sound-walk exercise for my class. This sound-walk starts within a music building to the outside of the building.