Airwaves is the second title in Ian Boddy's Waveforms series of sample libraries.
All the sounds were recorded using a high quality and powerful radio transciever.
This provided the raw data of strange garbled voices, buzzing interference patterns
and hidden morse code signals that Boddy transformed into Airwaves. Many of the
samples you will hear are virtually untouched other than using some judicious EQ
and compression to "clean up" the material. All the sounds are originally recorded in
mono and some have been further processed in stereo using an arsenal of plug-ins to
enhance and complement the mood and atmosphere of these intruiging sounds.
The Kontakt 2 programs are a simple C0 - C6 keyspan with C3 as the root key and
a basic envelope and low-pass filter provided. The modulation wheel is set to turn
the cut-off of the filter down as it is raised. No other programming is included as the
sounds themselves are "finished" and it is intended to give the customer the flexibility
of adding their own effects and modulations if desired.
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Technical data
100 samples at 44.1Khz, 24 bit in WAV format .
Mixture of stereo & mono samples, cross-fade looped where appropriate.
Raw audio recorded from a Yaesu FT-757GX HF all mode Transceiver with a
Yaesu FT-757AT Automatic antenna tuner. Fed with single wire end fed antenna.
Recorded directly into Apple Mac using RME Fireface 400 audio interface.
Samples processed in Logic Pro 8 and edited in Bias Peak Pro 5.
Native Instruments Kontakt 2 support provided.
Additional processing provided by:
AAS Tassman 4
Audioease Altiverb, Periscope & Riverrun
DaevlPlugs
Hipno
iZotope Spectron
NI Reaktor
Pluggo
PSP Nitro
SFX Machine Pro
Waves RCompressor & L1 Limiter
Recorded & produced by Ian Boddy, June - September 2008.
Thanks to Paul Stokes for operation of radio equipment.
