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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.

Bringing it back

Greetings from obscurity!

I’ve been busy writing my first novel, recording a demo with Identity Collapse, working on the next Caustic Reverie release and contributing sounds and voice to the HL2 Mod No More Room In Hell.

The site was down for a bit without me noticing, and it took even longer for me to get a clean installation before I could go about restoring the backup. I’m kicking myself that my last site backup was way out of date, so I’m going through and rebuilding the pages for the Caustic Reverie discography.