As with all such experiments I do, I tracked at 192kHz to ensure enough latitude for further sonic malfeasance. If you’re reading this, I’m sure you’ve heard quite a lot about the relationship between talent and music, and how much mystical talent you might need in order to be a great musician.

Pitch-bent down or up, obviously, there’s a lot of sonic possibilities for sound design. I’ve attached an edit of the raw recordings to this post. This created a really neat tone that combined a pitch bend with a very resonant filter cutoff. They went into the water at a 60Â°-90Â° angle, so that they’d not create entry splashes or secondary water drips. I donned a pair of finger cymbals (truly something every sound recordist should own!) and dipped one or both of them in the water after striking them together. This can be a challenge if the water coming out of your spigot is highly aerated. One gotcha is that a high-frequency hiss can occur from air bubbles forming on the microphone casing. The Aquarian H2a-XLR hydrophone is pretty heavy and holds quite still. I put the hydrophone halfway between the surface of the water and the bottom of the tub, suspended from a boom arm so the cable would be isolated from noise and the mic element wouldn’t sit on the bottom.Īn Aquarian H2-XLR hydrophone set into a tub of water. Since our high-tech executive spa didn’t have a stopper handy, I grabbed a plastic tub and filled it with lukewarm water. be mixed and matched within the rhythms to produce various musical effects. In search for a large container to fill with water, I decided to record in the executive washroom of Noise Jockey World Headquarters, and the photos in this post will give you a glimpse of the sumptuous luxury in which we conduct our noisy business. Orientalist Finger Cymbal Dancer Being musical instruments, finger. But then he has a free hour to himself and realizes that he’s got a box full of sound-making toys and objects that could sound pretty interesting underwater.īefore work one day, I sifted through said toybox and decided to give this a whirl. He’s excited, and starts recording all sorts of crap. Dipping struck finger cymbals into water creates some great filtering effects.

Finger cymbals sound effect