A Team Project...

Okay, I’ve decided that this would be both interesting and useful, from the discussion in the Pet Sounds thread. I’d like to make a publicly available library of loops of useful background noise. I have a fairly lively library of this sort of thing myself, but I’d like to add to it.

So here’s what I’d like to do: if you have an odd piece of gear that produces a nice hum, hiss, crackle, or whatever that is handy as sub-conscious spectrum filler, and want to add it to the collective, drop me a line via the contact link above. I would like 44.1 16-bit source, either WAV or AIFF, at least 4 seconds of it (at least enough to find zero crossings and make a loop that doesn’t sound loopish; you’ll have to be the judge as it will be source-dependent.) If you can just send me a link to a file via YouSendIt or something so I can download at my leisure, that would make me happy. Otherwise, go ahead and just email me the file itself.

Also, please provide me with information about what the source material is, and how you’d like to be credited. I’ll cull out the crap, make nice loopables of the remainder, and put it all together in a ZIP and host it here.