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    Does anyone record their own sounds

    Like banging on pans, breaking glass etc... I was at work taking out trash and I had a roll of duc tape.. I started banging on the side of the dumpster and it makes this awesome sound... I want to be able to put that sound into my production....
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    :yes:

    its just sticking them into a mix that i have yet to sit down and figure out.

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    yea, i've done it before. cars, birds, sounds of the woods in general, also the sound an old tv made when i turned it off.
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    i record all kinds of shit.... first, i'm a musician, so i love the sound of a real intrument. on most of my tracks, the piano, the guitar, the bass, and whatever other instrument i can get a hold of, will be recorded from live instruments. No sampler can reproduce the sound of real guitar solo! also, i love going into flea markets and buying cheap imitation of rare instruments, so i can record short samples to be used later on my tracks, or weird bowls and boxes to use as percussion.
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    I recorded my own voice, making percussive sounds with my mouth and stuff, into my sampler a while back. After I used a notch filter on some of them they became pretty usable sounds. And I used them in a track--buried deep in the mix of course.

    We were at an O's game last week. The sound of the crowd from outside the stadium as you walk up is MASSIVE. I am bringing a recorder next time. Some folks like to use a battery-powered mic pre-amp and portable DAT but I can't be bothered. I have a nice mic but it stays home. I have made a little portable recording kit consisting of a Sony MZ-R50 minidisc recorder and Sony T-mic.

    I want to put a mic INSIDE of things and bang on them. I think that's a better more saturated sound.

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    that was my next question.... what do you use to record the sound with?
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    Adobe Audition 1.5, a mic, my boyfriend and I making silly sounds. Didn't quite work out in a track as we anticipated.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SIXTO
    Like banging on pans, breaking glass etc... I was at work taking out trash and I had a roll of duc tape.. I started banging on the side of the dumpster and it makes this awesome sound... I want to be able to put that sound into my production....
    lots of people do
    theres this one track by patrick turner when he was recording his friend came in and said something, well he just kept on going. it sounded really cool like it belonged in it.

    /random
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    sometimes

    ill just leave the tv during a documentry i love the way their voices fits with a basic rythym, i like messin with samples, (dan f/orbital), did a real good one over a recording of the war in iraq and also the testing of lsd on british soldiers (lol), like that ole bbc presenter voice, anyone know if theres a way to recreate from newer recordings, tried filters and trying 8bit, just cant seem to get it.
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    I have an IRIVER Mp3 player.. it has a built in recorder and mic.. It actually picks up sounds nice.. How would I get that to my computer and convert it to WAV???
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    Quote Originally Posted by SIXTO
    I have an IRIVER Mp3 player.. it has a built in recorder and mic.. It actually picks up sounds nice.. How would I get that to my computer and convert it to WAV???
    take a 1/8 of an inch cable, 1-1, connect the headphones plug into the line-in inpout of your pc, then you can even use windows recorder to convert into .wav.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SIXTO
    Like banging on pans, breaking glass etc... I was at work taking out trash and I had a roll of duc tape.. I started banging on the side of the dumpster and it makes this awesome sound... I want to be able to put that sound into my production....
    in all honesty i still think random shit like that can be cool. depends on what it is.

    oddly enough i had a friend who spun "experimental industrial/hardcore" - talk about some crazy shit. completely unrhythmic shit... there was one point in one of his mixes where you could hear jackhammers, shot being fired, women screaming, and then all of a sudden comes a basskick. i just felt that the mix deserved honorable mention since you brought up the topic.

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    I carry a sony minidisc player/recorder and a sony ECM mic around with me sometimes. Birds, cars, airplanes taking off and landing at BWI, people talking. I've built a nice little library up over the years. One of my favorites is a recording of when I was camping in the mojave desert next to a campfire and this bat was flying around me chirping.

    With all the sound manipulation tools available these days, taking these sounds singularly or mixing them and you can have something really unique and different from the original.

    I read recently that the sound used for the TIE fighter engine noise in Star Wars was a combination of things... one of the components being an elephant. Foley artists for movie productions know all the tricks and are pretty creative people.

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    about star wars

    is it me or is the music for the latest starwars movies a bit crap?
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    hasnt it always been crap? :shrug:
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