Hiss & Roar have released FX019 Celery Bone Crunch, available at the intro price of $19.00, increasing to $29.00 after the promotion.
CELERY has enjoyed a recent resurgence due to its alleged health benefits, but every sound effects editor has an appreciation of celery for its sonic character: so useful for bone, sinew & cartilage breaks, cracks and crunches.
Hiss & Roar recorded celery, along with many other vegetables & fruit, for SD001 VEGETABLE VIOLENCE back in 2010, and that library has made an epic contribution to gore in films and video games ever since. But there are two things Hiss & Roar did not have back in 2010, a vegetable garden and microphones with extended frequency response.
Crunchy breaks & snaps, twists & splits were performed along with a technique I disocvered while working on the film BLACK SHEEP (2006) where a human mutates into an 8 foot tall Were-Sheep!
Check this youtube video for an example transformation from the film.
By wrapping celery stalks in a towel, the sound is slightly muffled and contained, simulating sinew, internal organs and cartilage being violently manipulated.
Some stalks were also dried in the sun for a few weeks, to achieve brittle dry cracks & pops & breaks, compared with the far more juicy breaks from fresh celery.
Recorded 32bit 192kHz in a dry room using four microphones:
- Sennheiser MKH8040 LR
- Sennheiser MKH8050 C
- Sanken CUX100K C
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