Literally… Captured bouncing and rolling down the dense, Precambrian volcanic rock on the North Shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota last Summer. I recorded this sound with an AKG c4000b large diaphragm condenser microphone. No processing included. Just linear fades in and out.
North Shore Rocks
Good foley studios are littered with everything from sod, gravel, pavement, and other surfaces to garden rakes and kitchen utensils. This category is for the strange, unique, bizzarre, or just plain effective techniques you have used to generate foley sounds.
On YouTube there are a total of seven excellent mini-documentary episodes on how the sound design was produced for Peter Jackson’s remake of King Kong. Here’s a playlist of all seven videos. In the first video Ethan Van der Ryn and Mike Hopkins explain why they prefer not to use sounds from pre-recorded libraries.