Several foleys of a metal music stand being manipulated: dragging it on a wooden floor, making it creak, opening and closing its legs. Mic: schoeps c-mit 5.
Recorded with an mxl condenser mic placed at some distance from a plastic clock. It give a bit more realism because there is some acoustics from the room.
Atmosphere at dawn in the inner courtyard of a hotel on the beach. Birds. Recorded with omnidirectional mics and zoom f8 48000/24. The balcony is in puerto escondido, méxico.
Cleaning up some dialog on a film here is the heart beat picked up by the 2 actresses cuddling, only a second or so - but you probably couldnt have planted the mic better on purpose!!.
An attempt to fill a request for the sound of rummaging through a wooden chest (trunk) filled with wooden toys. . . Tight mic placement for variation. Gear: zoom h6, xyh-6 x/y capsule (120 degree stereo image), rycote windjammer, mounted on a tripod, various wooden toys/items. Please feel free to leave feedback and ratings. I would love to hear how you put the sound to work.
Middle school (ages 12-14) band of about 50 students preparing to make an audition recording in their school auditorium. Two akg c 414 b-uls multi-pattern large diaphragm condenser mics were placed about 10 feet (about 3 meters) above the ensemble on the far right and far left, with a røde nt4 stereo condenser mic at the same height located in the middle of the group. Recorded january 2019.
Recorder: zoom r8 built in usb mic. Sound generated by:plastic broom and dustpan drop on wood floor. I wanted to simulate a mop bucket or cleaning supplies being nicked over.
A short sample of crowd noise recorded at glasgow barrowland 2005. Never used these two channels in any mixes because someone in their wisdom decided to put the ambient mics either side of the pa subs. Genius!.
Studio recordings of handling latex gloves for foley purposes. Recorded with an at-4047/sv large-diaphragm condenser mic. In this clip, i am donning a glove.
Simulated wing flaps of a bird or other creature created by waving a heavy bath towel and then speeding it up and adding a bit of eq. Recorded with a sterling audio st51 condenser mic.
Running a corkscrew several times rapidly along the edge of a wooden desk. Recorded with minidisc and condenser mic, indoors, 6" distance. Background noise removed with audacity. Short, rattly hard noises.
Voice announcement of incoming train at back bay train station, boston. Recorded using sony mz0-r90 portable minidisc recorder and sony ecm-ms907 stereo mic.
Blowing bubbles through a straw into a small vase half full of water. Sony ecm-ms907 mic, using sony mz-r35 as preamp, recorded into logic pro 7, normalized. May have clipped at one point.
Ambeo recording of the entrance of a beehive in autmn while wesps were attacking to kill some bees and drag them to their hive. Recording made with an sennheiser ambeo vr mic on a zoom f8. Handling noises at the beginning and the end.
I folded a belt in half and pushed it inwards and pulling it outwards violently about 30 cm away from the mic. This was recorded at the open window institute sound booth in centurion, south africa.
Binaural recording of onions being peeled, cut on a small wooden board and fried in a pan. Refrigerator hum in background. Mics: vt403 mounted in ears.
Lighting an electronic cigarette lighter from komazawa, tokyo, japan. The lighter is emblazoned with the word "tadaima" = welcome home. Recorded in mono with an akg 414, fredenstein mic amp, rme fireface interface into pro tools.
A rapid-fire machine gun sound. I made it through firing a nerf alphastrike stinger, speeding it up, pitch and all, and then repeating it. Recorded in my bedroom with a gaming headset mic.
Made using yamaha p95 digital piano with organ voice selected with church reverb added in post (recorded through a generic laptop electret mic, sounds good enough nevertheless).
On the morning when we had a partial (around 70%) eclipse of the sun, i went outside to find it was raining. . . With very thick clouds in the sky. Olympus ls10 built-in mics.
Kids playing in a schoolyard - rec with r1, stereo mic, 20 mt far - some beep at the middle from a working machine - birds in background - (flac compression is powerful!).
Recording of me lighting a cigarette with a disposable lighter. Noise reduction used. Recorded at home on conexant smart audio with at2020 usb mic, processed with audacity.
Portland, or trimet bus pulling away from curb and taking off down the road. Recorded using a sony shotgun mic with a minidisc capturing device in 2000.
