A small hand-crank generator being turned at a pretty quick rate. I didn't have a light bulb attached, but if i did, i imagine it would be flickering brightly at this speed.
Yuasa yhy-80p steam humidifier is turned on and the inside water starts boiling, after which it's turned off and stops making a strange noise. Recorded with zoom h2n.
Every morning the sprinklers turn on at my apartment, so i decided to record them turning on and off. Unfortunately, some outside ambience creeps in, but they're still fairly clean. Recorded with: sanken cs-1e, fostex fr2le.
Old-style bell alarm clock turns on, rings 4 sec, is turned off. Clock ticks once or twice before file ends. 44. 1khz 16bit mono. Neumann tlm103 through yamaha mg10/2 mixer and rnc1773 compressor into computer.
Turning on radio reciver and going through fm frequency of few polish radio stations (for only few seconds). Can be used for background noice or transision for audio. Also lots of white noise plus click noice of turning on/off (begining and ending).
A standard british lightswitch being turned on and off recorded from distances ranging from around 2 cm to around 45cm. Recorded on a wileyfox swift phone using easy voice recorder set to raw audio output.
The lid of a bottle opening and closing. You can hear the lid turn as it is being opened, the hollow sound as the lid is lifted, the clicking sound as the lid is being put back and then the turning of the lid as it closes. Recorded with a zoom h6 and a stereo microphone (rode ntg2).
This sound just appeared in one of my recordings. Not propositional, but very cool. . . Sounds like some technological weapon, or some device being turned on or off. . . Use at will.
Snippet of generator turning off taken from jeffwojo's generator startup, run, shutdown. Wav file (http://freesound. Org/people/jeffwojo/sounds/169940/) for use as a sound effect in the dark mod. Original sound file is licensed under the creative commons 0 license.
