{"id":824,"date":"2009-11-26T16:33:18","date_gmt":"2009-11-26T23:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/?p=824"},"modified":"2009-11-26T19:52:02","modified_gmt":"2009-11-27T02:52:02","slug":"doom-vibrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/2009\/11\/26\/doom-vibrations\/","title":{"rendered":"Doom Vibrations"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"That

That tiny little hand massager created holy aural hell inside that metal shed.<\/p><\/div>\n

How could I possibly have guessed that a cute little \u00c2\u00a0hand massager<\/a> from the impulse-buy bin of our local office supply store would sound like a tool of pure, unmitigated doom?<\/p>\n

There’s a motor inside, of course, and its four round, glowing “legs” are for distributing vibrational goodness. Its animal-like appearance made me put it on the floor for my cat’s amusement…and when I turned it on, the entire floor of my dining room groaned. The vibrations went into the long floor planks and just sounded lucious. What else could I put this on for even cooler sounds?<\/p>\n

\"Glowy

Glowy vibrational awesomeness<\/p><\/div>\n

I quickly was testing this little bugger out on all sorts of things, and then I put it on the roof of our all-metal outdoor tool shed. It sounded like space\/time itself was coming apart, or like a 60′ metal automaton was coming to life after hundreds of years of dormancy…the possible uses were many. I used my modded Oktava MK-012 <\/a>with its omnidirectional capsule – a first for me, in fact – and stuck the mic into the center of the shed on a boom pole<\/a>, where I assumed most of the sound waves were meeting. My steel wheelbarrow was whining, every surface was vibrating…it was intense.<\/p>\n

The unholy racket you’re about to hear is about three layers of this sound, from different takes, one of which is pitch shifted down just over half an octave as a slight thickener. The lowest bass rumbles, however, are from the raw recording.<\/p>\n

Who says subtlety and dynamics are always<\/em> good things? ;-) Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!<\/p>\n

<\/embed><\/object> MassiveVibration<\/a> by noisejockey<\/a><\/span>
\n[OktavaMod MK-012 microphone into Sound Devices 702 recorder]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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