Listening on monitors or good quality phones will allow you to hear the deep tone created when I smacked my palm against the side of the rigid front fork from my Surly 1×1 single speed mountain bike. I captured this sound with my PCM-D50 using the built in mics. This was a quiet sound so I needed to record in a quiet space.
This time I used my bedroom. The first step was to turn down the heat and wait for the fan to stop on the forced air heating system. Secondly I put the recorder on a stable surface (i.e. the bedside table) held the fork with my left hand while smacking it with my right palm.
Surly 1×1 Rigid Front Fork
Santa brought me a wonderful little 
During a recent family dinner at my brother’s house I was innocently admiring the ornaments in his home when came across a collection of musical snow globes. I could not resist winding up these devices for some concurrent chaotic music box sound. Fortunately I had my PCM-D50 on hand, so while no one was looking I gathered the snow globes and tried to find a quiet place in the house to make a recording. With the family event fully underway, this was not an easy proposition, but after wandering around for a few minutes I settled on recording them in the bathroom. Despite an odd look from my brother’s wife as I exited the bathroom the recording went well. 
Another collaborative effort that I am quite pleased with is this extended version of Some Kind of Adhesive produced and performed by myself and Nils Westdal. The piece is eleven minutes and seventeen seconds long and contains four interwoven movements. The original condensed version is heard on 
I would like to share another track from