Hiss and Roar have released a new ‘unusual’ sample pack to link up with others in their range. Rain Rhythms is available at a 33% off early bird price using code DRIP at the checkout. The offer ends April 24th.
This library is a crossover between an ambience library and a polyrhythmic pattern library!
Selected from over 14 hours of multitrack recordings, made over a period of two rainy days in the porch at the rear of my house, where the clearlight roof has some holes… By strategically placing inverted metal trashcans, the leaking drips perform very interesting rhythms – like a metal drum kit played by raindrops!
This idea is not unprecedented. If you remember AMB018 STRANGE RAIN captured multitrack textures of rain, by placing microphones inside objects such as metal bowls, pipes, waterphones, gas tanks etc… In that example, light rain created a continuous texture or ambience. For this library, the objects were chosen for deeper percussive impact, as you can see and hear in the video.
The stereo recordings via MKH8040 pair are useful for characterful ambiences, with rain on the roof as well as drips falling randomly onto many metal props (gas tanks, buckets, milk cans etc). But it is the discrete MKH8050 and MKH8020 mics inside the trash cans that capture the isolated rhythms of individual rain drops, which when combined create almost hypnotic drifting rhythms…
The library is presented chronologically, with 12 x 5 minute selections from my first recordings with a MKH8040 pair capturing general ambience and MKH8050 inside a single trashcan pounding out a beat. Then followed by 17 x 5 minute selections captured with three trashcan mics over the course of an entire day of recordings.
The filename of each 5 minute multitrack selection includes the starting and ending tempo in BPM, to help indicate the intensity and the shift in speeds. From an insistent pounding beat, through cross-rhythms that slowly cycle in and out of time, to almost granularly loose rhythms…
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