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Microwave oven.flac

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February 26th, 2012

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Sound effects > Objects / House appliances
Comuna 14, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Microwave oven noise.

Information about the recording and equipment:

-Location: Home kitchen.
-Type of acoustic environment: Small, diffuse, highly reflective.
-Distance from sound source to microphones: Approx 0.6m.
-Miking technique: Tilted ORTF.

-Microphones: 2 M-Audio Pulsar.
-Microphone preamps/ADC: Echo Audiofire 4 in stand alone mode (SPDIF out).
-Recorder: M-audio Microtrack II (SPDIF in).

Eq: Compensation only for the response of the microphones (compensation of subtle bass roll-off).
No reverb, no compression, no fx.

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Domestic-sounds
Field-recording
Fx
Head-related-recording
Noise

Type

Flac (.flac)

Duration

0:40.625

File size

12.5 MB

Sample rate

96000.0 Hz

Bit depth

24 bit

Channels

Stereo

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vrstylvlln

5 years, 8 months ago

Great! Thanks...I'm going to work this into an ambient piece of musique concrete.

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