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Earth Rumble.wav

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patchen

April 2nd, 2006

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Music > Solo instrument
Earth, Wind, Fire and Water Competition entry

recording of highway vibrations through the earth. Microphone was
placed on a resonating panel under a highway overpass, the element was
covered with heavy damping material. Processed with lowpass filters via
cambridge eq. Recorded with a Rode Nt-4 microphone, Sound Devices MixPre preamp into a Sony Hi-Md recorder. Sounds recorded at 16bit, 44.1k transferred digitally to Cubase for editing.

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earth
ground
highway
rumble
sound-design
sound-effect
subsonic

Type

Wave (.wav)

Duration

3:19.625

File size

16.8 MB

Sample rate

44100.0 Hz

Bit depth

16 bit

Channels

Mono

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elemenopees

6 years, 1 month ago

beautiful. just right. thanks.

rabbydaw

6 years, 4 months ago

Great, going to use in an ambient piece I'm performing soon. Cheers!

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MrMarkN

9 years ago

Fantastic sound, love the texture you got with the real world source. Thanks, I used it to run beneath an animation of a binary star system MY Camelopardalis in a Church presentation I am preparing.

LisaStockton...

10 years, 4 months ago

whoa......

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takas20

11 years ago

Thank you very much for providing this sound.

I used it as part of a collage in a piece called "Daylight on Saturday" which is listenable and downloadable on SoundCloud here: https://soundcloud.com/ivodne-galatea/daylight-on-saturday

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