April Thunder
I recorded some freaking sweet thunder last week. Here’s one of my favorites. Careful, this is loud!
Tag recording
Wandering Man
[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/41629025″] Ran across this in an ambience track while entering metadata into my sound library. Recorded in the Chicago Union Station Great Hall. It’s hard to tell exactly what he’s saying, but for some reason I just love the…
Recording Electromagnetic “Sound”
Whether you realize it or not, you’re surrounded by electromagnetic fields almost everywhere you go. Anything with an electric current has one. That means your computer, phone, TV, hair dryer, vacuum, toaster… everything electronic.
A Day of Sounds
Inspired by this #LinkOfTheDay, last week I set out to make my own type of “time lapse phonography”. So one morning as soon as I woke up, I grabbed my Zoom H4n and started recording the typical sounds of my…
Happy New Year!
It isn’t new years eve at my parents’ house with out fireworks. This year was no exception, but this time I was right there to record the moment. We only got a couple lit off before we decided to call…
A Machinist’s Workshop
My girlfriend’s father is a great machinist. In his home shop, he works on his own air pistol prototypes. He uses all kinds of big fancy machines for this. Now, I have no clue how to operate them or how…
Project Portal: Update 1
This saturday I did some sound collecting for my Portal audio mod. I recorded just about everything in my apartment that makes noise, but I seemed to gravitate toward anything electric. Things like videogame consoles, lights, speakers, hard drives, space…