Michael Raphael has announced the release of Small Motors, another great collection of sounds at his company Rabbit Ears Audio. The library includes a lot of different sounds from electric devices, robots, servos, clicks, buzzing machines, etc.

Small Motors. Clicking, whirring, buzzing, grinding,servo sounds and robots. This library is composed of a variety of motor sounds from everyday kitchen appliances and power tools, but it also includes a real robot, whom I found not far from where I live in Brooklyn.

The centerpiece of the library is the Maker Bot 3D printer, an open source 3D printer for rapid prototyping, with 3 different stepper motors inside, makers of lots of fascinating mechanical sounds.

The folks at Maker Bot Industries programmed the robot to do different tasks; each performance of the bot was covered with the following microphones: Sennheiser MKH 60, Sanken CUB 01 (mounted onboard), DPA 4060 (mounted onboard).

The library also includes different sounds made by kitchen appliances and power tools recorded in a studio. Each object was recorded with a variety of performances and perspectives to provide flexibility when designing sounds. Those sounds include:

• Food Processor
• Immersion Mixer
• Commercial Blender
• Electric Can Opener
• Commercial Mixer
• Coffee Grinder
• Small Food Processor
• Juicer
• Dremel Tool (small and large)
• Circular Saw
• Power Drill
• Motorized Screwdriver
• Articulating Saw
• Jigsaw

The above tools and appliances were recorded with the following microphones: Schoeps MS Pair,Sennheiser MKH 60, DPA 4060 (mounted onboard).

Small Robots is available now at Rabbit Ears Audio. There are several purchasing/quality options:

• SMALL MOTORS HI-RES $50 – (24 Bit 96 kHz | over 700 sounds | 1.27 GB download)
• SMALL MOTORS STD $25 – (24 Bit 48 kHz | over 400 sounds | 306.3 MB download)
• SMALL MOTORS BASIC $9 – (16 Bit 44.1 kHz | over 200 sounds | 74.3 MB download)