{"id":506,"date":"2009-08-23T20:11:19","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T03:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/?p=506"},"modified":"2009-08-23T20:11:19","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T03:11:19","slug":"razordome-two-razors-enter-one-sound-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/23\/razordome-two-razors-enter-one-sound-leaves\/","title":{"rendered":"Razordome: Two razors enter, one sound leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"
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These razors were locked in a battle to the death for the sake of sound!<\/p><\/div>\n

I think it was Ben Burtt<\/a> who described coming up with a sound effect by putting an electric razor in a trashcan and letting it vibrate while recording it…sadly, I’ve forgotten where I saw or read this… (if you do, note it in the comments<\/a>!)<\/p>\n

This naturally made me wonder what would happen if you put multiple<\/em> electric razors in a resonant space like a trash can. I have both a small beard trimmer and a larger hair razor, so I knew they’d create two very distinct sets of harmonics.<\/p>\n

What else is there to say, really? I put those two razors in a trash can, turned them both on, and then let the ol’ 702<\/a> rip with a large condenser mic<\/a>. I tried it with the trash can lid open and closed.\u00c2\u00a0It was when I placed both of them on the lid of the metal trash can that the magic started to happen. The trash can acted as a resonator, like the body of a guitar.<\/p>\n

Here’s the bizarrely awesome moment (unprocessed) when they started harmonizing and turning into a rich, thick chorus of motorized drone-y goodness!<\/p>\n

<\/embed><\/object> Two Razors in a Trash Can<\/a> by noisejockey<\/a><\/span>
\n[R\u00c3\u00b8de NT1a mic into Sound Devices 702 recorder]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think it was Ben Burtt who described coming up with a sound effect by putting an electric razor in a trashcan and letting it vibrate while recording it…sadly, I’ve forgotten where I saw or read this… (if you do, note it in the comments!) This naturally made me wonder what would happen if you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[63,4],"tags":[9,29,321,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506"}],"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=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":654,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions\/654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}