Ice Skating is acomprehensive library of 1000 audio files drawn from the realm of ice skating. It encompasses many variety of sounds using different skating techniques and depicts various ice skating activities such as hockey game, figure skating, free skating ... Most of the recordings have been made in an outdoor setting allowing to belittle reverberations.
Almost all of the sounds were recorded using a M/S technique with AKG C-414 and Rode Nt5, and a Sound Devices mixPre.
Focused and detailed
This library presents unique focused sounds that have been edited meticulously making them easier to integrate in any audiovisual project or interactive program. The rare distinctive quality of these recordings also allows them to be a base for any sound experimentation through a creative process; and can be layered with other sounds or treated in order to produce interesting sound design.
The library encompasses 315 sounds of cracklings, frictions, impacts, and squashes. Part of the sounds were recorded in the field, on thin ice layers recovering lakes. Part were thoroughly recorded in studio. Also the debris sounds have a particularly interesting sonic texture due to the process of slightly melting and freezing again, which gives them this special crispy crusty quality.
Textures & Tensions
These unique focused sounds have been edited meticulously making them easier to integrate in any audiovisual project or interactive program. The rare distinctive quality of these recordings also allows them to be a base for any sound experimentation through a creative process; and can be layered with other sounds or treated in order to produce interesting sound design. All in all, these brittle coarse sounds constitute a practical pool for sound designing. A must-have for ice fractures, frictions, fissures, and tensions.
Arctic, Northwest Territories, Lutsel K'e, Great Slave Lake, Exterior Spring Thaw May 23th, Ice Movements with Tinkling Sound, Dogs Barking, Blustery Winds, Birds and Some People Voices in Distant Background
Arctic, Northwest Territories, Lutsel K'e, Great Slave Lake, Exterior May 23th, Close Shot POV, Ice Movements with Tinkling Sound, Dogs Barking, Blustery Winds, Birds and Some People Voices in Distant Background
Montreal, St-Michel Quarter, Exterior February 19th, Exterior Ice Rink Close Shot POV, Group of Hockey Players at Practice Drills, Skating and Scraping Sound on Ice - Version 1 of 3
