HISSandaROAR have released SD071 Spring Impacts, available at the intro price of $35.00, increasing to $79.00 after the promotion.
HISSandaROAR spent over three years collecting springs, and then mounting each spring in a way that it could freely resonate under tension. The first output from the collection was the Impulse Response library: IR005 Springs Over the last four months HISSandaROAR have been recording the spring collection and am both excited & relieved to finish & release this new library of Spring Impact sounds, which explores a range of percussive hits.
The springs range from very short small diameter (130mm x 15mm) through to very long (2800mm x20mm) with decay up to 25 seconds. Hits were performed with hard mallet: full free sustain, then damped, and then very damped – the latter providing meaty solid metal impacts.
To add interesting pitch, HISSandaROAR also captured hits with a metal bridge attached to the spring. These work almost like a tongue drum – the ‘prongs’ generating pitch, which is transmitted into the spring. Struck with a hard mallet they ring out beautifully, but struck with a soft mallet they instantly created unique subtle stings.
In a few cases (the huge auger springs, thunder drum) I also captured handling, movement and some friction moves – the auger with threaded rods woven through them, sounds massive when wrangled!
These are very useful, powerful sounds applicable to elements of practical effects but equally applicable for designed sounds, stings & impacts as well as musical percussive elements.
Captured 192kHz 32bit with a pair of Trance Audio Arcturus Contact Mics, every setup was a challenge to cleanly capture the vibrations without dampening resonance, while avoiding buzzy rattles.
Released 24 bit 96kHz with photos of each setup and full UCS metadata.
Watch the demo HERE.
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