Cyclick Samples - The Great Outdoors Volume 1 [24Bit WAV]_Sin

These sounds have been selected to complement an outdoor living, camping kind of
theme. The raw materials come from three distinct sources.

The first was a trip to a glacier in Switzerland in 1998, where I took a Sony
MiniDisc Walkman, a 10-metre mic cable and an AKG C1000 – rockfalls, icy streams,
and of course the caves inside the glacier ‘Moulins’ (not to be confused with
‘moulin’, the French for windmill).

The second trip saw me equipped with the Tascam HD-P2 portable recorder, a trusty
Calrec C1050 condenser mic and a hydrophone (a disc- shaped underwater mic) recording
various streams, rivers, canals and beaches, though the raw forms have been used
here as the soundtrack was a pretty abstracted affair.

Lastly, the birds and camping sounds, as well as some footsteps and ambiences,
come from recordings done on my iPhone while camping on a farm in Herefordshire
and walking about my garden at 3am last Autumn (it was for a rhythm track for a
song about being alone in the forest – a pop classic!)

The raw materials were put through a series of manipulations, from pitching and
stretching to full-on noise reduction. For the latter work, iZotope’s RX was
heavily relied upon, as it’s about as powerful a system for this kind of work
as you can get. As well as the main Denoiser, the Dialogue Denoiser (which works
great on dialogue as well as many other sources and is very quick to set up) and
various iterations of the Declicker/Decrackler. Working with a spectrograph display
makes such work far easier as it ends up working a lot like Photoshop, lassoing
individual sounds and pulling them up or deleting them altogether. All the samples
have also been edited to loop without clipping.