{"id":1051,"date":"2010-03-04T18:44:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T01:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/?p=1051"},"modified":"2010-03-04T19:33:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T02:33:30","slug":"underwater-bowed-metal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/2010\/03\/04\/underwater-bowed-metal\/","title":{"rendered":"Underwater Bowed Metal"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Bow,

Horse hair, water, mic, and wok lid. Now we're cookin'!<\/p><\/div>\n

My last post<\/a> featured teensy finger cymbals being dipped in water while resonating, recorded with a submerged\u00c2\u00a0hydrophone<\/a>. This time we go a bit bigger.<\/p>\n

Bowed cymbals are one of the classic clich\u00c3\u00a9d horror movie sounds…clich\u00c3\u00a9d because they’re awesome<\/em>! (coincidentally, just yesterday,\u00c2\u00a0Chuck Russom<\/a> posted some great examples<\/a> on his blog<\/a>.) I recorded some a while back, borrowing some cymbals from a friend<\/a> at work who keeps his drum kit at work<\/a>. During that session I also realized that the wok lid from my kitchen made similar sounds, but with a different timbre: More groany, throaty, less musical, but with a quality I liked.<\/p>\n

So, I played the wok lid with a violin bow as I moved it into and out of a tub of water, again with the trusty\u00c2\u00a0Aquarian H2a-XLR hydrophone<\/a> tracking to a Sound Devices 702. \u00c2\u00a0The H2a can be overly bright on some material, but for this stuff it was pretty good! (Next time I should record the above-water sound to a second channel with a small condenser mic for more mixing flexibility.)<\/p>\n

The recording below is 100% unedited except for some slight compression and normalization.<\/p>\n

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\n[Aquarian H2a-XLR hydrophone into Sound Devices 702 recorder]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My last post featured teensy finger cymbals being dipped in water while resonating, recorded with a submerged\u00c2\u00a0hydrophone. This time we go a bit bigger. Bowed cymbals are one of the classic clich\u00c3\u00a9d horror movie sounds…clich\u00c3\u00a9d because they’re awesome! (coincidentally, just yesterday,\u00c2\u00a0Chuck Russom posted some great examples on his blog.) I recorded some a while back, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[63,7,4],"tags":[13,175,172,174,62,173,171,22,321,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1051"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1137,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions\/1137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}