Lifting Michigan Avenue
One of the things Chicago is known for is it’s some what infamous river. The Chicago river (as beautiful as it is today) was once so sludged full of sewage and other waste that rats could run across the build-up on the…
Creating a Sound Effects Library – Lessons Learned
I’ve been running Collected Transients for almost a year now (wow!), and feel like it’s a good time to take a look back at my experiences in launching and running an independent SFX library so far. I’m going to try…
Grandpa’s Klaxon Horn
Every now and then when I visit my home town my Grandpa has some ideas of what might be fun to record. This weekend I went back and found out he had an old manual Klaxon horn in his basement.…
The Weirdos with Microphones
If you’re reading this post, chances are you’ve done some field recording. If you’ve done a lot of field recording, chances are you’ve had a few run ins with police, security, and the general public where they thought you were…
Distant Highway Sounds – Lake Shore Drive
I’ve been recording all over Chicago for an upcoming Collected Transients library. The other night, around 2:00 a.m., I went out with the plan to record in a tunnel that ran underneath Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive. I was hoping to capture…
Premeditated Metadata – Fuse Slating with Metadata
I’ve always had a love/hate relationship with audio metadata. When it comes to finding the right sound effect for a project, I love it. When it comes to entering all of that data, I sort of hate it. It’s…
Lake Michigan Waves – Illinois Beach State Park
The weather was beyond perfect yesterday, so my girlfriend and I decided to make a trip up to Illinois Beach State Park for the day. It was our first time there, and we didn’t realize how huge it was. 4,160…
Collected Transients Launch – Sound Effects Libraries
I love recording things. Small things. Big things. Loud things. Quiet things. Close things. Distant things. ALL of the things. I love recording things so much that I’ve decided to share them with the world! Today, I officially launched Collected…
Winter in the Prairie
Spent this last weekend recording the blizzard that hit the midwest. I was in Galesburg, IL, which didn’t get hit as hard as Chicago did. Apparently I picked the right weekend to visit my parents!
Trains Through Glass
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nkI3uyI6Ow&w=640&h=360] I’ve been a little bit obsessed with contact microphones lately. Recently, a personal project (that I hope to share soon!) led me to renting a very nice microphone: the Barcus Berry 4000 Planar Wave System. I mainly wanted…
Windy City – Chicago – 4am
Wind is a tricky thing to record. There are a couple inherent problems with the idea of recording wind:
A Quick Projects Update
“I haven’t posted in a while!” I bet you have never read that line on a blog before! Well, here’s another one for you to read: I haven’t posted in a while. I have had the blessing of being a…