A large scoop pounding away at a concrete bridge to demolish it. Sounds of metal and concrete banging repetitively. Background is an idling utility service truck.
This is a case front-loader/backhoe loading up concrete that was just broken up and loading it to a nearby dump truck. There are a couple workers using shovels and speaking a little bit of spanish i think. Unedited. No effects. Equipment: rode nt3 to sound devices 702.
This is two slabs of concrete , one on top of the other, and scraped together. In this sample i have changed the rate to give it a 'bigger slab' effect. You can also add reverb and play with the rate yourself for more dramatic effect.
So there's a slightly back story here. So i was visiting a blank lot super frustrated and i picked up a brick from a reserved pile and smashed it onto the ground. Hopefully nobody even noticed.
Pull up a chair and have a seat! a wooden dining room chair was used to lift, scoot, and place on a hard, concrete floor. Gear: zoom h6, ssh-6 shotgun capsule, windscreen. Please feel free to leave feedback and ratings. I would love to hear how you put the sound to work.
Below a bridge/overpass. Cars pass overhead, causing sharp thumping sounds across the stereo field that reverberate through the large concrete space below.
Iphone 12 recording (stereo sound extracted from video) of somebody using a drill on the other side of a not very thick wall. (compression is aac, timed metadata, hevc, encoding software 14. 8).
Slow walk with leather shoes on concreet floor in an reverrberated accoustic. A few steps, stand by, u-turn, few steps. Close up. France, 2018recorded with schoeps cmc6 mk41recorded on nagra ares bbwave mono, 48khz, 24bits.
Two, electrically powered jack-hammers at work with various starts, stops and runs as recorded from inside an apartment. Biographical note: currently work is being done on the balconies of my apartment building. . . This is what one hears for several hours every weekday.
A short walk cycle on a concrete sidewalk with some ambient wind in the background - i really need a windshield. Loops seamlessly. Recorded with a roland edirol r-09hr and edited in audacity. If you use this sample, please tell me what you did with it below! links are nice too.
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.
This morning i woke up to the sound of a city crew jackhammering concrete just outside my window. I grabbed my h2 and recorded for a while. This file is an edit of the full recording. It contains two bursts of jackhammering, one fairly short and one longer. The background noise is the sound of the air compressor. Toward the end the compressor is turned off and the last of the pressure is released by the jackhammer as it sort of "putters out". This last bit is a bit unique.