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Idea Pool for A New Crowdsourced Library

Mike

UPDATE: I will try and update the poll list with what everyone is suggesting in the thread. The poll only supports so many potential answers so I will need to swap out suggestions that are looking less desirable as we go.

Thought I would start a post to circulating ideas for a new community library. I'm all for trying to record really exotic and less obtainable sounds but it will drastically reduce the contribution level and probably make the library suffer in quality overall. I've posted some of the ideas I've had for libraries below. What would you like to see our community put together? What would interest you and make you want to go out and record?

Ambience 2.0
Burps and Farts
Dogs
Door creaks
Foliage (tree, bush, and branch movements)
Footsteps
Gears (clocks, pulleys, ratchets, cranks, etc.)
Glass
Gore (vegetables and other objects to simulate gory sounds like blood dripping and bones breaking)
Machine drones and idles (elevators, generators, refrigerators, etc.)
Planes and Helicopters
Pneumatic (chairs moving up and down, air brakes, hydraulic windows in cars, etc.)
Robots and Servos (electric toothbrush, dentist equipment, cameras, etc.)
Trains (subways, steam locomotive, elevated people movers, and all of the above)
Whooshes

If you have a particular idea you think would work well for a crowdsource library please share it!

Michael_Kpow

My favorites would be:

Robots and Servos
Gore
Foliage

In that order. Can't wait to see other suggestions, but lets do robots and servos!

Thanks for kicking off another one Mike

joe_griffin

Well, I think trains would be cool, but that's partly because I live in Chicago and could have fun going around and doing more El recordings.

I do have a couple cool recordings of old dental equipment that belonged to my dad.

Honestly, any of those would be very cool, though if I find I've got a stronger opinion I'll chime back in.

insomaniac

Trains, Robots and Servos, and Machine Drones all sound like a ton of fun!

rene_coronado

I'm way into the glass and foliage ideas.

Lots of the rest of the list really has tons of coverage in the marketplace already, but the number of excellent glass and foliage libraries are much smaller.

samueljustice

I would love to see more libraries with different perspectives - off axis, 3-5meters away from source but I think the power of crowd sourced stuff comes from the fact everyone is at different ends of the world. Sure we could all go and record doors etc, but we really should take advantage of this distance and difference in locale which is why the ambience lib was so interesting.

What would be cool (IMO) would be

*Sirens/Alarms from around the world

*Birdlife and fauna

*Trains/Machinery

kaiwolf26

I'd really like to see a world walla library. It's super hard to find walla libraries as it is, and even harder to find things in the right languages.

joe_griffin

kaiwolf26 wrote:
I'd really like to see a world walla library. It's super hard to find walla libraries as it is, and even harder to find things in the right languages.

That's a cool idea.

samueljustice

kaiwolf26 wrote:
I'd really like to see a world walla library. It's super hard to find walla libraries as it is, and even harder to find things in the right languages.

+1, fantastic idea

JackMenhorn

These are all wonderful suggestions from many people I super respect and would love to be a part of any of them. I really dig the glass and walla ideas tho.

dpb

-synths

The format could be really simple like attack, sustain and release or similarly the on, loop and off parts of a synth sound. I imagine that the on and off parts could have a fair amount of movement in them and people could pull various things out of those clips. Loops are good for game stuff. Maybe the library could be organized on a macro level depending on what the range is like bass, mid and high.

Though it is spring and we all need excuses to go outside. . .

Otherwise I vote for

-Robots and Servos

deskinscraig

+1 glass

chrisdavis03

+1 world walla

DanCostello

It'd probably be easiest for me to contribute to a Train library - I was planning on doing one of those this summer anyways.

-Dan

NabruEvets

As interesting as a library like glass, or gears would be, I think taking advantage of the world locales available would be the best use of the crowd-sourced efforts.

+1 on walla for me.

Would be great to have (INT + EXT) x (SM, MED, LG) crowds.

JefAerts

+1 world wall

+1 gears

Mike

How feasible is it to ask everyone to gather a group together and perform walla? Or are we talking about recording in a public space, like a restaurant, airport, hall, etc.?

joe_griffin

I was wondering that too - are we talking about proper walla or simply field-recorded crowd sounds?

DanCostello

What's the legality of recording public crowds?

-Dan.

Mike

DanCostello wrote:
What's the legality of recording public crowds?

I would imagine that recording people in a public space is legal, just like the paparazzi can take photos. But if you're on private property (in a restaurant) I'm sure there is some law somewhere relating to it. What are the chances of them knowing or proving it? Probably nil. Good question though, it would be great to find out for sure.