As this is my first blog post, I figure I should introduce myself.
Hello, I’m Michael O’Connor, owner and operator at Audio Shade, and welcome to my rambling field recording blog!
On top of handling post sound for a wide range of projects, I love to record sounds everywhere I go. I never know what sounds I might need for the next project, so like a painter, I just gather as many colors/sounds as I can so that I am better prepared for future projects.
Back in February of 2016 I went on a trip to London and Berlin and recorded a bunch of sounds. About 10 Gigabytes, to be precise… I packed a portable recorder, the Sony D50 (which has a battery lifespan that literally lasted me the entire trip) as well as a mid-side setup which included a Sennheiser MKH30+MKH40 going through a Sound Devices Mixpre into a Tascam Dr100-mkII. I also converted my Rode Blimp into a “Mini Blimp” using the very helpful guide written by Watson Wu. You can check that out at his website here.
Anyways, looking at about 5 hours of raw audio recordings in Pro Tools is a bit intimidating from an editing/cataloguing perspective, but I’m hoping to go through these fairly quickly/efficiently as I don’t intend on releasing these into a purchasable library, so I won’t be quite as neurotic about cleaning as I normally am (who am I kidding, of course I will be…).
I plan on posting samples from these recordings from time to time. I figure I would activate your palettes by sharing the first recording I made on the trip at the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) of multilingual passengers walking and chatting as they make their way to their respective flights. As a gift to everyone, I am offering these sounds royalty-free for download and use in your commercial or non-commercial projects. However, I am still the owner of these sound effects, so you are not allowed to sell these sounds for any reason whatsoever. If you do, I’ll know because I have secret agents that find anyone who does so (okay, maybe I don’t have the budget for hiring secret agents, but maybe one day…).
I hope that with these recordings, I have the sounds that are capable of sonically painting the scene of London and Berlin, and if I didn’t, figure out what sounds I should try to capture next time while visiting these beautiful cities.
As with all blog posts, the sound recordings posted here are available for download and can be used as royalty free sound effects in your personal or commercial projects.