Day 189 / Contact Mic Fiasco

Sorry to be posting this one so late.  I still have yet to do my creative thing for today but I’m at work and it looks like it’s going to be a long one tonight.  On the plus side, the piece I’m working on at the moment is going to be playing on the big screen at Grauman’s Chinese this Tuesday.  I won’t be able to see it because its meant for executives but that’s cool.  I’m actually doing wire removal which is a first for me.  It’s challenging and pretty cool.  ANYWAYS…

 

Yesterday was wonderful day.  I was playing with June for most of the day but by the end of it, I was exhausted.  I really had to work up the energy to go out and do something.  I was looking over the blog and I realized that I hadn’t taken the contact mics out for a long time.  Day 034 was the last time.  So, since its not such a complicated project I decided to lazily record some noises.

 

I am not that satisfied with the outcome.  I was surprised too because I thought Jenny and I had chosen a good group of things to record.  I think it was a mixture of mic issues as well as execution.  I was hearing this beating hiss in everything I recorded and I had a premonition it was noise from my digital field recorder.  Contact Mics have a tendency to record quite loudly even the lightest touch across the cable.  The other problem was that I think I selected perhaps the wrong areas on the objects to record.  Oh well.

 

I removed as much of the hiss as I could in the computer and I juiced up the sounds a bit in Ableton.  Nothing crazy, just a bit of panning and EQ.  Anyways, press play on the three audio players below in any order and enjoy the creak-scape.