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Motor starting up slowly

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Mxsmanic

December 27th, 2011

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Sound effects > Objects / House appliances

This is a recording of an office paper shredder starting up.

This model of paper shredder has a button that you can press to run it briefly in reverse, in order to clear paper jams and clean the blades. If the shredder hasn't been used in a while, it takes several seconds to start, and makes a cool noise while doing so.

The click at the start of the recording is the switch being pressed. You then hear the motor struggling to start up for about five seconds, and finally it comes up to speed. The high-frequency crackling you hear, particularly once the motor is running smoothly, comes from bits of paper still rolling around in the blades (easy to convert into a campfire or rain). There's another click at the end when the reverse button is released.

I uploaded this because several parts of the recording sounded like they'd lend themselves to morphing in various ways to create other interesting noises.

Recorded with a hand-held Zoom H4n, stereo 96 kHz / 24 bits, with the built-in mics, positioned about six inches above the rotating blades of the shredder

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electric
electric-motor-starting
gears
motor
paper
shredder
start

Type

Wave (.wav)

Duration

0:10.985

File size

6.0 MB

Sample rate

96000.0 Hz

Bit depth

24 bit

Channels

Stereo

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muchappreciated

3 years, 4 months ago

Great recording, and so much detail into how you recorded it! Thanks for sharing. I used this in my latest animation: https://youtu.be/3ekWIRB9cuo

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Logan69

8 years, 1 month ago

A great sound. I'll use it for my robot monster film. Thanks!

originalmaja

11 years, 9 months ago

I used this one in an audio play: "20.000 Leagues Under The Sea" by Jules Verne; recently recorded in one of the lecture halls at Bielefeld University, Germany (by a student drama group). A just-for-fun project (non-commercial). We'll upload the whole thing in 2014 and will give accurate credit.

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Vibender

12 years, 7 months ago

Great, especially first few seconds when device starts. Thanks.

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blackbar

12 years, 7 months ago

This is wonderful. Using it as a cat scan machine sound. Thank you a ton.

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