Guest Contribution by Chris Burgess There are two points to this article. The first is, if you see something you want to do, get out there and make it happen. The second, being that when an opportunity presents itself to you, be aware enough of your surroundings to scoop it up (and then record some awesome sounds). What follows is an account of my attempt to record dry ice … [Read more...]
Review: Chuck Russom FX – Metal FX
When Tim Prebble launched the first library of HISS and a ROAR, I was also looking forward to a similar project from Chuck Russom, who follows the same concept of Tim’s project: High Quality Sound Sources delivered on the Internet with an incredible affordable price. Chuck started with Chuck Russom FX, releasing Metal FX, his firs sfx library loaded with 198 sounds of metals … [Read more...]
Chuck Russom Special: Recording Dry Ice
Dry ice is a lot of fun to use for making noise. Touching metal objects to a block of dry ice creates some really cool squealing/whistling/screeching sounds. This is because the metal surface is much warmer than the dry ice and it causes the dry ice to quickly turn to gas. Some of the gas is momentarily trapped between the two surfaces, and when released through a small … [Read more...]