Audio

  • Sounds of Dead Hard Drives

    Sounds of Dead Hard Drives

    A hard drive recovery service called Datacent has recently uploaded several recordings of different drives making lots of different sounds. There’s a wide variety of drives and different sounds, rhythms, and amazing noises. These are some typical sounds we hear in…

  • Post Mortem: “Guns” by BOOM Library

    [Article about the recording and editing process of Guns SFX Library released at BOOM. The article was written by Axel Rohrbach exclusively for Sonic Terrain.] This is the “post mortem” article for Boom Library’s third collection:”Guns”. Since I had some major…

  • Making of Rabbit Ears Audio Metal Machines SFX Library

    Michael Raphael is a professional sound recordist and designer. He is also the creative force behind the boutique sound effect studio Rabbit Ears Audio and the long-running field recording blog Fieldsepulchra. I have to admit I have a bit of…

  • Recording Snow Falling Off Trees in North Idaho

    Recording Snow Falling Off Trees in North Idaho

    Frank Bry, sound designer/recordist and very good friend of Sonic Terrain, has published a fantastic post in his blog, talking about a recent experience he had recording snow falling off trees. One of the things I’ve always wanted to record…

  • Recording of the Week: Tiny Antique Camera by Rene Coronado

    Recording of the Week: Tiny Antique Camera by Rene Coronado

    Rene Coronado is an audio engineer working in postproduction in Dallas since 2000 at Dallas Audio Post Group. He has a blog where he shares his thoughts about different fields, including sounds. Recetly he published some nice sounds of an…

  • Sonic Tourism on North Head, New Zealand

    Sonic Tourism on North Head, New Zealand

    Tim Prebble has published a fantastic post where he showcases several sounds recorded in North Head, Auckland; New Zealand. There are a lot of interesting things, such as the comparison between the sound inside and outside a location (with fixed recording…