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Recording Machinery for Sound effects

  • 27-07-2011 11:36am
    #1
    PascalShin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12 ✭


    I'm looking for somewhere around Dublin where I could go and record the sounds of large machinery. Hydraulics and pneumatics and that sort of thing. I'm thinking a machine rental place or even a funfair where they might have some stuff in storage. The place would ideally be relatively quiet, a warehouse maybe and it would take me maybe an hour or two.

    Does anybody know anywhere where I might be able to do this?


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  • #2
    krd
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭krd


    What are you collecting the sounds for?

    A good place to go might be a car mechanics garage.


    There are companies who sell CDs with these sounds. Some are crap and some are really clean.

    No one in their right mind will let you into a factory by yourself. All that kind of machinery is really dangerous to be around.


  • #3
    PascalShin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12 ✭PascalShin


    It's for a film. Yeah I'll ask some garages then maybe, the funfair might be a bit optimistic! It could sound deadly though...


  • #4
    TelePaul
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,093 ✭✭✭TelePaul


    "Whats he building in there?"


  • #5
    krd
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭krd


    PascalShin wrote: »
    It's for a film. Yeah I'll ask some garages then maybe, the funfair might be a bit optimistic! It could sound deadly though...

    What you also do is look around your kitchen. You'd be surprised, the squeak on a oven door may sound like huge machinery once you add a little reverb.

    The sound of brick being dragged across a floor - once you add some reverb can sound like a huge heavy stone in front of a tomb being rolled back.

    Sound design is often about getting the sound of one thing, and once its' added to film it appears to be something else.

    Sound design in film these days is much more exciting than in the past. If you stop to listen to it, you'll notice it's far more abstract - there are natural sounds and plenty of unnatural ones. Being too literal can be really crappy. Like in 1970s film, the sound designer always insisting on putting in the clip clop sounds of shoes when people are walking. You'll rarely see that in a film today - because it's crap, and we can see the people are walking.


  • #6
    FlipperThePriest
    Subscribers Posts: 699 ✭✭✭FlipperThePriest


    A precision engineering place would be good. Some great lathes and machines in there, grinding metal and the rest.


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  • #7
    judas101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,581 ✭✭✭judas101


    Have you tried freesound.org?

    People upload all sorts of sounds on there that you can download and use for free.
    I got some great samples of a train and waves which I used to great effect in different tracks.

    Might save you some hassle


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