Creaks ‘n Groans

Posted on January 13, 2009 by lost track

Hey Audio Cookbookers,

I’m Tom Player and have been a reader of ACB for a while, and a sound recordist for a long time. I run a website lostrack.co.uk where I store some commercial and personal work. I’ve got a huge archive of great recordings, some of which I plan to unleash here soon!

About this time last year I was in New Zealand, exploring and recording everywhere I went. I was fortunate enough to meet one of the captains of the NZL14 racing yacht who invited me on board with their crew, to record the sounds of them all in action. What I didn’t expect was the sound of the boat to be so fascinating!

A bit about the yacht, it’s a work of engineering excellence. The sail is one piece Kevlar, the hull carbon fibre, and the keel is 16 tons of lead. It’s formula 1 on the water – she makes beautiful groaning, creaking noises, like nothing you’ve ever heard before.

Gear: Fostex FR2-LE with matched stereo pair rode NT5 mics.

Laundry Day

Posted on January 9, 2009 by John CS Keston

From the content of my last entry you can probably guess why I am slightly behind on my On Sound Every Day project. Fortunately I have sounds for the missing days and will be adding them soon.

A combination of time spent during the holidays on family visits, parties, keyboard desk building, and studio reorganization has left me trying to catch up on several things including a massive pile of laundry. This gave me an excuse to record my old squeaky clothes drier.

Squeaky Drier

Korg MS2000 Noises for Sunset

Posted on January 6, 2009 by John CS Keston

Here’s a segment from a single track out of the piece Sunset on Keston and Westdal’s first album, Super Structure Baby (2002, Unearthed Music). Sunset was the final piece on the album until Kinon’s Path was added as a bonus track for the reissue.

Sunset was the first track that I wrote after buying my Korg MS2000 in 2000, so I was still learning the instrument but enjoying myself fully in the process. The knob turning goes on for the whole seven minutes and two seconds of the piece, but I have edited it down to the first minute and six seconds.

Sunset Noises

Testing My Little HD Friend

Posted on January 4, 2009 by Saronni

Santa brought me a wonderful little Kodak Zi6 HD video camera this year. I spent a couple hours on a meditative down tempo track just to inspire me to create a short film. I have no name for the young audio piece but I do have a fragment of it to share. I was experimenting with the macro setting and got some nice lens flare action.