Here’s a five bar loop of the pedal noise from the last entry. This time with no processing at all except a bit of amp modeling. In the last example I had equalized away most of the low frequencies.
This version is fairly clean so you can hear the pedal knocking sound followed by the dissonance as all of the Rhodes tines vibrate slightly after the pedal is depressed.
Unprocessed and Looped Rhodes Pedal Noise
Here’s an excerpt from a piece of music that I created using the noise that the pedal on my suitcase Rhodes makes if you step on it the right way. The sound is processed using some of my usual techniques. I also programmed a beat of the top and laid down some reversed Rhodes and well as a simple chord progression. This probably won’t get developed much further, but perhaps I’ll use it as a segue piece of some sort.
Rhodes Pedal Noise
Until now the sounds presented on ACB have included just about everything except the janitor’s sink. So here it is, recorded in the Grandpa-George building, just outside their studio space. This is the sound created by the plumbing resonating as the hot water runs through the pipes. Apparently the sound doesn’t happen with cold water, and it takes a minute for it to happen with the hot water turned on. For some reason the pipes don’t resonate unless they have hot water running through them. Derrin played the sink while I recorded the results on the Sony PCM-D50.
Janitor’s Sink
I’ll have to do another session down at Grandpa-George sometime soon, because I have gotten a lot of mileage out the the sound possibilities in their space.
They didn’t know it, but their office is virtually a Foley studio. I doubt they’d let me lay down some sod, sand, and gravel to record footsteps though.
Douglas, Matthew, and Derrin all tend to collect interesting objects including a pair of giant light bulbs, probably for street lamps. This is the tone produced by flicking one of the bulbs.
Giant Light Bulb Tone
This typical, mundane sound has become nostalgic in many respects, but not altogether antiquated. However, this example is less typical, mainly because the sharpener was not mounted on the wall.
Derrin and Doug had to work together; one person holding the sharpener down while the other one turned the crank. This gives the sound a laborious quality that’s interesting to me.
Pencil Sharpening