{"id":232,"date":"2009-07-14T09:21:32","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T16:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/?p=232"},"modified":"2010-10-02T18:54:02","modified_gmt":"2010-10-03T01:54:02","slug":"hell-hound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/14\/hell-hound\/","title":{"rendered":"Hell Hound"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_235\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-235\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-235\" title=\"Sid the Dog\" src=\"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/sid.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Sid the Dog, by Peter K\u00c3\u00b6nig\" width=\"280\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/sid.jpg 280w, https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/sid-228x290.jpg 228w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-235\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Portrait of Sid the Dog, by Peter K\u00c3\u00b6nig<\/p><\/div>\n<p>My friend and designer extraordinaire <a title=\"Check out Jules' work!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.graphicharbor.com\" target=\"_blank\">Jules<\/a> has a dog named Sidney. Sid&#8217;s problem is that he has no idea that he&#8217;s a 100-pound pitbull-rottweiler mix. He&#8217;s a thick, massive canine with a chest \u00c2\u00a0twice the diameter of mine, yet he has the self-image of a happy-go-lucky, teensy lap dog.<\/p>\n<p>Jules was nice enough to let me do a recording session with Sid to get some elements for some creature sounds. I was after something low and menacing, but that didn&#8217;t require too much downward pitch-shifting, the <em>du rigeur<\/em> method of processing deep creature effects that often muddies up the sound by eliminating higher frequencies critical for realism.<\/p>\n<p>This was my first planned recording session with animals of any sort, and I learned a lot. The biggest lesson of the day? Put dogs on carpet or sound blankets to silence those claws!<\/p>\n<p>All we did was give Sid a rope toy. This rather intense collection of audio samples, unprocessed besides normalization, was the result. (Portrait by <a title=\"Check out Peter's work!\" href=\"http:\/\/peterkonigart.typepad.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Peter K\u00c3\u00b6nig<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>[soundcloud url=&#8221;http:\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/5763890&#8243; params=&#8221;show_comments=true&#038;auto_play=false&#038;color=ee0000&#8243; width=&#8221;100%&#8221; height=&#8221;81&#8243; ]<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #999999;\">[R\u00c3\u00b8de NTG-2 mic, Sound Devices 702 recorder]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend and designer extraordinaire Jules has a dog named Sidney. Sid&#8217;s problem is that he has no idea that he&#8217;s a 100-pound pitbull-rottweiler mix. He&#8217;s a thick, massive canine with a chest \u00c2\u00a0twice the diameter of mine, yet he has the self-image of a happy-go-lucky, teensy lap dog. Jules was nice enough to let [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,4],"tags":[10,321],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232"}],"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=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1833,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/1833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}