SD16 Giant Pinecones

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DESCRIPTION: In Giant Pinecones, get a visceral collection of scraped and eviscerated pinecones from the gray pine trees of Northern California. Scrape the razor-sharp hooks of the cone petals and hear guttural scrapes crackling with energy. Hear rolling cones popping and fluttering with rich stuttering tones. Hear fully open cone pedals squeaking with woody vocalizations like supernatural animals and hardy crunches filled with organic grit. This library offers you an extensive collection of sounds from a unique organic sound source. Gray pinecone sounds are incredibly soft and intimate in real life, but when recorded from two inches they morph into a unique wooden sound source brimming with powerful glitchy and stuttering textures. KEY FEATURES: Woody vocalizations rolling, scraping, and stuttering textures visceral and guttural scrapes fluttering and popping textures rich crunches chalkboard-like squeaks and squeals RECORDING STORIES: This library, like Bowed Cactus, resulted in many bloody fingertips. Gray pinecones are 12-inch behemoths with razor-sharp claws on the end of each petal. Those clawed petals made wonderful, gritty scrapes and scratches. They wear down quickly when scraped, so I needed 50 of the pinecones to make the library. Once the point was dulled the sound lost most of its energy and character. When that happened, it was time to move onto a new pinecone. Using fully open pinecones was the key to getting great sounds. Closed petals yielded a muted and pathetic sound. Fully open cones had a wonderful resonance. Each petal of a cone has its own pitch (similar to how plucked needles on a cactus have slightly different pitches). The combined pitches of a multitude of petals resulted in a rich, woody timbre. My favorite texture was created by scraping a few petals so that they glitched and stuttering across the log. Hear it below: This unusual sound source was a joy to use for my sound experiments. I love finding unheard organic sounds and I can't wait to hear what y'all make from this library! FILE LIST: Click "View larger version" in the bottom right corner of the File List below to open in a new tab for easier viewing. This works best on a desktop computer. View spectrograms for each track, search, and filter in the Airtable spreadsheet. LIBRARY INFO: Specs: 3.1 GB – 192 kHz / 24-bit – 114 stereo WAV files – 500+ sounds – Approx. 44 min total Metadata: CSV, Soundminer, BWAV, Text Markers Categories: Materials & Textures, Organic, Wood Location: Napa County, California – spring 2019 Mastering: read my Field Recording Mastering Rules for more info. Delivery: Instant - blazingly-fast - digital download License type: Single user, royalty-free - for a multi-user license, click here Sound Library Guarantee: If you're unhappy with my field recordings in any way, I'll give you store credit equal to the cost of the sound library. Read the full details – here. GEAR USED: Sennheiser MKH 8040 and MKH30 in MS Sound Devices 702 Sound Devices MixPre-6 Cinela Pianissimo Blimp Show more