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Tamper.flac

Overall rating (4 ratings)
B
billox30

September 12th, 2012

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Soundscapes > Urban
New Malden, Greater London, England, United Kingdom

This was recorded in my kitchen next to a railway, late at night when there was maintenance going on on the line. A heavy unit called a tamper went past, tamping down the ballast (stones) that go under the tracks. Lots of sub-bass as the whole building gets vibrated and at -04:29 a balanced teapot lid puts itself onto the teapot. Zoom H4N, 24/48 Wav exported to FLAC in Audacity.

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approaching
approaching-machinery
big-machinery
crunching
field-recording
heavy-machinery
heavy-vibration
Machinery
mechanical
Railway
scary-machinery
shaking-building
Spooky
Sub-bass
tamping
vibration

Type

Flac (.flac)

Duration

5:14.295

File size

30.2 MB

Sample rate

48000.0 Hz

Bit depth

16 bit

Channels

Stereo

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RutgerMuller

10 months, 1 week ago

Wow.... crazy sound with that heavy bass. Awesome, thanks.

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