New HISSandaROAR library where I spent many hours destroying an old wardrobe with mics inside it! VERY cathartic!
SD087 WARDROBE DESTRUCTION is now released
The idea for this library dates back to a horror film I worked on back in
2004 which involved someone reliving their childhood trauma with a (bad CG) monster in his wardrobe… While it wasn’t a great film, I came across some of the sounds we developed for it & I realised the scale & resonance of wardrobes was worth revisiting. After weeks of searching I managed to get this one on to the roof rack of my 4WD & took it home…
While it was intact it looked quite solid, but it only took a few hours to turn it into rubble and firewood! I rigged it with an MKH8020 pair inside and MKH8040 pair exterior, and before doing any structural damage, I performed impacts on every surface, then used a pair of vibe guns to shake the living sh+t out of it!
After rocking it, dropping it & dragging it across concrete I then smashed it apart, using a crow bar to wrench the more solid parts. Once I had a pile of rubble I put the 8020 mics inside another old bookcase & threw planks & wood panels on top, and then used the vibe guns to rattle the whole pile of wood debris.
By this stage I was getting physically tired, so I leveraged individual planks into the bookcase & broke them down until I had a stack of firewood.
Captured 32/192k with Sennheiser MKH8040 pair exterior and MKH8020 pair inside wardrobe
Released 24/192k with UCS metadata & photos
ALSO:
UFX058 AHOOGA HORN 1927 CHEV is released!
I’m not sure how these old AHOOGA horns work but they tend to make people smile rather than being startled… I’ve been waiting for a calm windless day to record this and last Sunday got the Chev out & drove to a quiet suburb to do some recording.
First I turned the engine off and performed a series of toots, but I noticed that somehow the horn didn’t reach quite as high a pitch as when the engine is running! This maybe due to current draw, although the car has a new fully charged battery… So I also performed some with the car idling.
Captured with MKH8050 close to the horn and MKH8040 pair a cable length away, included in this little library is:
Ahooga Horn Toots – no engine
Ahooga Horn Toots – engine start, idling, toots, off
Ahooga Horn Toots – toots with engine idle removed using RX
This is a free library for owners of VEH006 1927 CHEV as I didn’t record the cars horn when capturing onboard & exterior moves… If you own VEH006 you should have received an order already, check spam or email me!
