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- Short: Stereo-sample (IFF) of Thunder.
- uploader: jawil@aid.no (Jan Roger Wilkens)
- Type: mus/samples
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- Sound details.
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- The sound was recorded during a few minutes of quiet heavy rains and
- occasional thunders. The sound starts off with 1,2 seconds of rain.
- Then there is a thunder break lasting for about 2,2 seconds. The
- thunder rolls off into the rain for about 5,6 seconds. Within these
- last seconds you can also hear a faint squeekin' from a door (to the
- left in the stereo field). This is the wind that audio-fies it's
- presence via an open door. (This also helps me identify the sound as
- mine......)
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- Recording and processing details.
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- This sound was captured with a Sony ECM-979 MS stereo condenser
- microphone and recorded directly onto a Sony TCD-D3 portable DAT
- recorder. It was later transferred digitally to an Akai S-1100
- equipped with a digital I/O board, and finally to the Amiga via MIDI
- sample dump in Samplitude Professional. Within Samplitude Professional
- I decided to increase the overall level digitally since the recording
- level was set not to overload in case of really close thunders. I used
- the fade function in Samplitude Professional to increase the level.
- Since the recording was done on a DAT, the sampling rate was quiet
- high; 48kHz. I decided to lower this rate to half the speed before I
- converted the sound to 8bits. Now the sound has a frequency of 24.131
- Hz. This was done in order to save space but still keep up with the
- high sound quality from the original 16 bit file. This also ensures
- that the soundfile is compatible with Amiga 8bit sound software. (Many
- 8bit programs have problems with *VERY* high playback rates.) Please
- beware that Samplitude Professional exports IFF sound with a default
- volume setting of 0 (zero). I haven't changed this.
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- Credit details.
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- Thunder.svx 432308
- Sample recorded May 2nd. 1993
- by Espen Beranek Holm
- Copyright © 1993 Animal Voice Production A/S
- All rights reserved.
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