When I was in the process of doing the Horace Andy remix a while ago I accidentally generated this sound:
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How I generated it I still don’t know – I was working in ProTools LE at home and had a couple of sends going to the excellent Massey TD5 tape delay plugin and whenever I opened the session I would hear the above sound once, and then normal silence until I started playback or whatever… I wasn’t sure quite what was generating it but presumed it must be the plugin recalling automation and getting a ‘pop’ through the bus-ing or something… But as soon as i heard it I knew I wanted to record it and it ended up that the only way that I could record it was to hook my 722 field recorder up to the ProTools analog outputs… but it reminded me of another similar rhythmic sound I recorded a few years prior, which came from a fairly unlikely source – can you guess how this sound was generated (hint: it didnt involve a computer)
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I love naturally decelerating rhythms, I’ve heard them in Taiko drumming – where else can they be found?
Sounds like a car bonnet cooling after the engine switches off. Then vari-speeded.
no vari-speed, its real time
Second one sounds like a radiator.
sounds like a roulette table click with some filtering and modulation.
As for the pop in your Le rig. I get the same thing when le starts up. Just a little soft click.
wish i could edit my posts
For the second part of your question I just worked on a film involving a wind mill type device with spoke beads on the wheel and had to record the sound of spoke beads sliding on the spokes of a bicycle to achieve the sound. The effect is very rhythmic and surprising.
Yeah! The pop in your LE rig is quite common upon startup. So having that delay plugged in just gave that pop a nice twist! There is one unnatural sound created by a plugin which I love! It is created by the EchoFarm plugin whenever you changed the delay time values as the session is in playback. There is a weird delay with a crazy modulated pitch shift with the most alienesque propertes. Its like a sound straigh from a old school sci fi movie!
Regarding that sound I´d say it might be dripping water falling onto a thin metal surface. Like an aluminum sink?
ah yes, sticking things in the spokes of a bike wheel as it slows would generate soemthing similar, come to think of it there is an Aphex Twin song that uses that, hang on….
Gwarek2 off Drukqs CD1 http://blip.fm/~bkgx2
his Bucephalus Bouncing Ball track off the Come To Daddy EP is like the opposite! http://blip.fm/~bkgz8
the answer to ticky 02 is my toasty maker recorded with contact mic – its a toasted sandwich or panini maker, and when its first switched on from cold it always makes that sound…. thermodynamics at work!
neat! Now that you mention it I have a electric heater built into my bathroom that makes similar sounds as the coils expand. Did you treat this sound at all?
I will put an example of the spoke beads up tomorrow for everyone to hear.
Quite amazing the unrecognizable sounds one can get with contact mics!
PSP Nitro does something similar whan opening session.
Deadbeat uses some similar sounds in his productions.
I have also recorded lately very similar sounds with door creaks. It sounded like rhytmical overtones on bass clarinet or sax. Anthony Braxton in door creaks
true! door creaks are often very performance oriented – more than a few times i have found a great door creak, setup & started recording it & then realised i’ve been recordining variations of the same creak for 20 minutes! How many variations do i need? never enough!!
I just love finding music elements hidden in ‘every day’ sounds!
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here is the sound of the spoke beads. The wheel was spun once really fast. The initial sound is all of the beads sliding to the outside of the wheel then they slowly start to come alive as the wheel slows down.
wow beautiful sound jeff!
“performance oriented”/”same creak for 20 minutes”
Yeah, the creaking hinges do want to be played. To create a library aforehand would seem tough.
That warmup sound is something else . . . Thanks for posting.