Location Recording Session 01

Today some recordings were carried out within a disused farm building containing large steel grain bins. The plan was to capture some metallic sounds to be used in the creation of assets for the dungeon level. A Zoom H2n along with a guitar pickup was used to capture the majority of the metallic recordings.

The guitar pickup was most successful when held a few millimetres away from the metal of the grain bin, whilst using a piece of  angle steel to to create impact sounds and scraping sounds. By using the guitar pick up I maximised the resonant sound emitted from the bin whilst eliminating all room space noise. Examples are below:


Some additional recordings were also captured from various mechanical devices throughout the building as well as some footstep sounds, some additional editing of these will be required however due to the nature of the location. Background noise levels were an issue along with the large reverberant space of the building but that aside I feel the sounds can be cleaned up for application to the project.