The Cistern - Fort Worden, WA, USA

Engineer: Neville Pearsall
Recording date: Octover 3, 2006

The Cistern is a 2 million gallon underground water storage tank located in Fort Worden State Park, Port Townsend WA U.S.A.. Made by the U.S. Army of concrete in 1907, it is located on top of a hill in the park. Its original purpose was fire suppression and backup water supply.

It is about 150 feet diameter and 14 feet high with 88 columns supporting the roof and a steel ladder in a small opening for access. There is no near source of AC power so all recording and lighting is by battery power. Access is difficult to obtain as the Cistern is closed by dragging a pair of very large steel tanks over the opening with a backhoe when not in use to keep vandals out and lessen liability concerns over the 14' ladder and air quality issues. Access is limited to about 3 uses per year.

Neville Pearsall says: "It is an acoustic wonder and has one of the best long reverb responses in the world with a time of more than 40 seconds. The low frequency characteristics are spectacular and very pleasing. If two people are on opposite sides and place their ears near the wall you can talk very quietly and hear each other; like the whispering gallery."

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Gozo Ferry Channel Line

Recording date: June 7 2007
Engineers: Peter Bakker & Daniel Talma

Gozo Channel Line provides a vital "Life Line" between the islands of Malta, the mainland, and Gozo. Its modern fleet includes three state of the art ferries. This is the smallest: M.V. Ta' Pinu (delivered March 2000). Samples were made of the empty loading deck using 4 DPA 4006 mics and a DynAudio monitor to play back the sweeps.

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This warehouse situated in the middle of Rotterdam, in one of the most beautiful parts of the ‘old city’. Captured between two rivers in the old harbor. This venue has been used as warehouse and also as exposition room. The place is like a parking garage, lots of concrete & pillars and large size spaces, as big as the entire floor. We sampled a big and a smaller room on the 2nd floor of this fantastic building.

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Cockpits and (passenger) cabins of 7 legendary aircraft.

F27 Friendship

F27 Friendship

DC3 Dakota

Lockhead Constellation

Antonov

Hawker Hunter

Mig

Sikorski Helicopter

Five trains dating between 1910 and 1950 were sampled in stereo and surround. Samples were made at various distances, sometimes with more than one cab in between the microphones and the speaker. You can combine these variants to create depth in the final mix. In addition some locomotive cabs were sampled.

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Samples where the speaker and microphones are in different rooms, separated by floors, doors and walls. Take the tour of Coll's house. No bugs inside. Enjoy.

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Aviodrome Museum in Lelystad NL made available to us a Boeing 747 Jumbo for one unforgettable recording afternoon.

Between 1978 and 2003 it was known as 747-206B(M)(SUD) PH-BUK, and it was in the air 17 hours a day on average.

Acoustic samples were made in the cockpit, the passenger cabins and the lavatory.

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Engineers: Arjen van der Schoot & Matt Snedecor

Howe Caverns is a living, limestone cave, carved by an underground river over the course of six million years, located 156-feet below the earth's surface. It is New Yorks State's second most-visited natural attraction (Niagara Falls is #1), and among the Top Five show caves (those open to the public) in the United States. The four microphones (4 DPA 4006) were set up all the way down the cave where it flattens out and the sound of streaming water is less of a problem. The speaker (Genelec 1032) was then retreated back into the cave and 4 different samples were made at distances between 25 m (82 ft) and 120 m (393 ft).

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Sports Stadium
Antwerp

Gelredome
Arnhem, NL

Festhalle
Frankfurt, Germany

TUI
Hannover, Germany

Indoor Arena
(D. Magger)

Stadium
(D. Magger)

Next Door

It's all in the name: with this set it is now possible to let your input audio sound as if it was played back from an other room in the building. The TV set from downstairs, shouting people in the backyard, a crying baby in the upstairs bedroom with the doors open...

This is a set that has been recorded in and around the audio ease post pro sampling house, all rooms of this house are already available in the Audio Ease Post Pro IR Bundles.

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A wide collection of European type of cars, ranging from the small Ford Ka & Volkswagen Beetle to mini-vans like Renault Kangoo & Peugeot Partner. Samples from front and back seats and also trunks are included. Almost all cars were recorded at “Autobedrijf Boon” in Culemborg, The Netherlands.

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Bij de Leij is a beautiful old fashioned stainless steel tank factory in the north of the Netherlands. The Impulse Responses were made simply by banging steel with hammers and mallets. We felt very much 'in charge' walking around in a place like this, authorized to smash whatever we preferred.

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The forest of Austerlitz is part of a big national park on the “Utrechtse Heuvelrug”. Napoleon decided over 200 years ago this was a good place to settle his army. The forest offers a large variety of trees and houses dears and birds of prey.

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Six outdoor Impulse Responses containing: Streets, alleys and a tunnel.

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This set contains all kinds of rooms for post production purposes; living rooms, kitchens, staircases, fire trucks, etc.

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This set contains all kinds of rooms for post production purposes; attics, bathrooms, study rooms, postproduction studios, etc.

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This set contains all kinds of rooms for post production purposes; closets, bathrooms, study rooms, fire trucks, gyms, etc.

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This set contains all kinds of rooms for post production purposes; attics, bathrooms, study rooms, postproduction studios, etc.

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This set contains all kinds of rooms for post production purposes; kitchens, bathrooms, living rooms, cars, therapist rooms, etc.

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