Monthly Archives: May 2014

Some recording shots

Some recording projects I’ve been messing with for PVK II and other projects.

icerecording1
To get some ice cracking and crunching sounds, I froze a bag of water to make a larger, pillow-shaped ice brick. It turned out to be less impressive of a crack than I was imagining but I was able to break it by hand and get some nice ice friction stuff out of it, at least.

oatmeal-recording

For PVK II, I needed to create some desert winds for the map Sandstorm. I already had some library recordings of wind that I liked but I needed some “sand” to add in, so I experimented with recording grainy items around the house including rice and oatmeal to try and get the right feel.

veggies-pre

Some veggies awaiting destruction in the name of flesh rips, stabs, and other gooshy gore noises.

bryn-fieldrecording2-crop

Here I am capturing some field recordings of the Key Largo shore. I usually record ambiences with the stereo mics from my Zoom H4 or H2. They also pick up a lot of background car traffic and distant boats and such so I thought I’d try track some wave crashes with a shotgun mic.