Wandering through the floor of a casino past hundreds of different chiming slot machines. Sorry just recorded on an i-phone mic, but it's nice and long.
Shaking a lego set box. Then dropping legos and handling them. Recorded using at4033 mic in adobe audition 3 and then edited and cleaned up. Normalized to -. 1.
One note from an antique wind-up toy. Recorded with a relatively low-quality mic at a close distance; you can hear the machine of the music box churning and some faint ambient humming.
This is the sound of the plastic adjuster at the back of a bicycle helmet being tightened and then released - a plastic-y ratchet sound. Recorded with stereo nt1a mics in a soundbooth. No effects.
These are miscellaneous sounds recorded from my window during an airshow at a nearby airport. Recorded in mono with a large diaphragm condenser mic modded by michael joly. Format 44. 1/24.
Recorded with my phone in a fairly busy cafe in korea. After lunch hour, beaty jazz bgm, women talking, children talking and laughing. Occasional cup filled with ice stirring closely to the mic.
This is a close-recording of a beehive with thousands of bees. Tools: tascam dr100 mkiii with intern mics. Some postproduction in cubase 11 with izotope rx, waves rs56 eq and soundtoys decapitator.
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).
Recording near a computer fan and hard drive. Not great quality recording. I had placed the mic right where all the air was blowing. Sounds best on lower volumes.
Warning bells at crossing, tram bell, tram accelerating away with traffic on adjacent road. Night cityscape in quiet part of den haag. Recording: olympus ls3 + okm binaural mics.
A "bigmack" switch being operated, giving a distinctive click. This sound is recognisable to users of single message aac communicators. (aac: augmentative & alternative communication). Equipment: zoom h4n, internal mics.
Just decided to contribute to this great website today. : ) just got my mic, and let out a good "hey. . . " llolz. Then put a nice adobe audition delay on. . . Some compression, and wahlah!!!.
This is the sound of a single cicada that i found resting in my outdoors furniture. I picked it up and it started making this sound. I used a zoom h6 field recorded with a xy mic.
Kitchen drawers: various sounds of opening and closing different kitchen drawers some with cutlery inside. Recorder: zoom h4n with the internal mic on 48khz with 24bit.
Street traffic during the afternoon, recorded from apartmentmono track, 24bit, 48khz. Recorded this with a shotgun mic and zoom f8. Location sound is south san diego, california. Traffic is at peak hour.
These are several cannon shots as recorded outside my window from an airshow at a nearby airport. The mic was a large diaphragm condenser modded by michael joly eng. Format is mono, 44. 1/24.
Droning on eucalyptus didgeridoo, recorded in a small room with a large-diaphragm condenser mic by user dethrok. This is a mono edited version of his sound, at url: http://freesound. Org/people/dethrok/sounds/272165/.
Rain, with some splashing and trickling sounds too. Recorded with 2 devices, an olympus ls-14 digital handheld, and an audio-technica studio mic. The recordings were combined to give a wider stereo effect.
Opening a fizzy drink can (330ml). Initial hiss / open. The opening is boomy because the mic was very close, but i didn't eq it out because it sounds quite interesting.
Car alarm recorded on a tascam with an azden shotgun mic, with wind cover. Recorded about 4-6 feet from the front of the vehicle. Audio is straight outta recorded, no post production.
Opening a can of beer. Recorded with behringer xm1800s mic through a behringer xenyx12202 mixer, m-audio410 interface, ableton live 8, some eq i think. . .
Small creek on a trail up to granite mountain on snoqualmie pass. A smaller trickle layered on top with eq to get rid of freeway noise. Recorded with x/y mics on a zoom h2n.
I put the recorder under a tree with what looked like hundreds of birds in it. The dripping noises are not rain but bird poo!. Zoom h1 pair of luhd mics, no filtering20-10-17_111450_zoom0001_h1_luhds. Wav.
This is what background noise sounds like when you, first set your recording to automatically reduce noise, except to get this sound, put mic on sensitive, then increase the volume. Voila! computer noise!.
