Train station sound effects My goal while field recording sound effects for Airborne Sound is to record beyond simple sound clips and capture vivid, evocative sound. My favorite method for accomplishing this is with stealth recording. While stealth recording the recordist is secretly immersed in an environment. They have the potential to capture sound effects […]
Continue Reading Funfair Ambience Sound Effects Background At the end of summer every year, the Canadian National Exhibition visits Toronto. This carnival fair signals the end of summer for Torontonians. Home to such venerable attractions as the human cannonball, strong man show, air show and midway, the CNE also features B-list concerts, slippery home show salesmen and […]
Continue Reading Garbage truck sound effects Background You might observe that garbage trucks are not the most uncommon thing in cities. You’d be right. Finding garbage truck sound effects in downtown Toronto isn’t a problem. That doesn’t make recording them easy. Despite the apparent mundane aspect of these sounds, capturing a field recording of these lumbering beasts […]
Continue Reading Why finding inspiration is difficult Over the past fifteen years working in sound I’ve found that inspiration comes in waves. For months I’ll record and create sound effects for my library at airbornesound.com every day. I’ve painstakingly mastered 19,000 of my own sound effects and over 15,000 sound clips for other libraries. I can be […]
Continue Reading Train Sound Effects Train sound effects are one of my favorite field recordings to capture. Whether they are subway sounds, monorail sound clips, trams or streetcars, high-speed trains or electric train sound effects, I find that trains or “rolling stock” offer endless different sounds to record. Similar to construction vehicles (like the drilling rig sound […]
Continue Reading An article in the New York Times from July 7 caught my eye. Hollywood, the music industry and major American internet service providers (ISPs) have agreed to impose penalties on people who pirate or share music or movies. This includes other digital content, such as sound effects libraries. File sharing and piracy always leads to […]
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