Magnetic!

It’s been a long time since I wanted to record some magnetic sources and after reading nice documented blogs on this subject from other sound designers, I thought it would be fun to give it a shot!

With a friend of mine a few months ago, I bought a Seymour Duncan pickup and we started experimenting with it. I used it in combination with 2 recorders a Fostex FR-2 and a Sony D-50. I try to record all sort of equipment such as : Hard drives, hoovers, a Liquid mixer, remote controls (TVs and smaller ones), small milk mixers, fans, motorized screwdrivers, etc..

Seymour Duncan Pickup

I tried differents things with the spring drum : shaking it as we should to get the drone sound, using scissors to hit the string during the shake so that we could have these metallic small impacts on top of the drones, then we did a few vocalizations in the tube while the drone was playing, we had some pretty interesting results. The sounds were recorded using a Fostex FR-2 recorder and an XY stereo mic : the Rode NT4. Here is a one minute medley of these recordings :