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Started November 27th, 2006 · 3 replies · Latest reply by Halleck 17 years, 4 months ago
A question i recently bought up in an interview with acclivity; (Read the full thing here)
Whats the most challenging thing you've had to record?
mine hasn't really at the moment (only 8 sounds recorded!) but i suppose matches being lit (only cos my phone kept interfering!)
Nice interview, I enjoyed reading it. That's a sharp looking website by the way.
As to the question...
I'd say that both my friend's home-made railgun and exploding tinfoil experiment were the hardest to record, because I was using a video camera and I wanted to hide behind something so as not to get singed. I also didn't want to get electrocuted or damage my equipment, since the explosion was caused by pumping god-knows-how-many amps of current through a the foil, in the case of the explosion. I also didn't want to get hit by the railgun, but my other friend (who evidently has less concern for his own safety than I do) wound up holding the camera quite close, sheilding it with the visor of a bike helmet. Thankfully, nobody was hurt.
I haven't uploaded either of these sounds to freesound because they really just sound like short "pops" or "bangs" (the picture was what we were after anyway), but I can definitely add them if people are interested. My "electricity" sample pack was taken from the same video shoot- I think the Jacob's ladder sounds the coolest out of all the high-voltage contraptions he demonstrated that day. It was also one of the safest to record; I could stand a safe distance away and still see and hear it quite well.
Here is a picture of the railgun for those curious:
http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/243/railgun3rf.th.png
I may post the edited video later.
Of course, I haven't been recording for all that long either. I hope other interesting challenges in the future.
Oh yeah, and I just remembered this related thread:
http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1308