{"id":508,"date":"2009-08-29T13:17:48","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T20:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/?p=508"},"modified":"2009-08-29T13:17:48","modified_gmt":"2009-08-29T20:17:48","slug":"playing-a-ruined-pickup-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/29\/playing-a-ruined-pickup-truck\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing a Ruined Pickup Truck"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This sweet ride sounded better than it looks.<\/p><\/div>\n

I live near miles and miles of public open space trails<\/a>, and there’s a ruined hulk of a blue pickup truck a couple of miles from my house. I see it whenever I hike, run, or bike by. It’s been there for years; someone drove it up incredibly steep fire roads and left it.<\/p>\n

Some time ago I dragged a field recorder<\/a> and a windscreen<\/a>-protected shotgun microphone<\/a> up those hills and spent an hour milking the rusting chassis for sound. As you can tell by the picture, it doesn’t look like there was much left, but I did get some pretty cool sounds out of it. Like the cigarette machine percussion loop<\/a> from an\u00c2\u00a0earlier post<\/a>, I’ve assembled the raw sounds into a drum kit. Here’s a quick sample for your \u00c2\u00a0funky, semi-industrial percussion pleasure. No processing other than pitching 2 samples down a bit in the sampler and some compression and EQ in the final mix; it’s rendered as a usable loop, hence the sudden start and stop.<\/p>\n

<\/embed><\/object> Ruined Pickup Percussion Loop<\/a> by noisejockey<\/a><\/span>
\n[R\u00c3\u00b8de NTG-2 mic into Sound Devices 702 recorder, played in Logic Pro]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I live near miles and miles of public open space trails, and there’s a ruined hulk of a blue pickup truck a couple of miles from my house. I see it whenever I hike, run, or bike by. It’s been there for years; someone drove it up incredibly steep fire roads and left it. Some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,63,6,4],"tags":[13,23,10,62,21,22,321,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508"}],"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=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":666,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}