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I have uploaded a sample pack with almost all the sounds I used to make my Vietnam audio painting. (Some 55 samples.) This audio was recorded in several places during my trip through Vietnam from South to North.

The sound painting is available via my website :

http://users.pandora.be/wim.engelen2

The audio was recorded with a digital voice recorder (Sony MX20), so the dynamics of the sounds are accordingly (There are still no magic tools available to recreate or calculate missing dynamics...) I restricted myself to work only with the original recordings made during my trip and I experimented a lot with processing the sounds. Most processing was done with expanding and equalizing, sometimes noise reduction was used. This means that the mix carries the traces of both the sometimes crazy conditions under which the sounds were recorded and my experimental behaviour in processing them. I used a little stereo enhancing on the finished painting, as wel as a homeopathic amount of reverb.

Only the "karaoke parts" are left out in the sample pack.

Very interesting. It is quite experimental but having travelled there myself your soundscapes do bring back to me many memories so it works rather well, I think. Well done!