Brrr…I had a really fun (but chilly) recording session yesterday with Alex Larumbe and Adam Whitehead recording a variety of dry ice sounds in the Futureworks dialogue booth.
We recorded a whole bunch of great sounds with the dry ice by manipulating it in differernt ways - e.g. crushing it in our (gloved) hands, scraping it with metal objects, and dropping it into hot water to name just a few. It was quite amazing to hear the range of sounds we could produce just through these simple techniques alone; squeezing and crumbling the ice by hand produced subtle creaking and cracking effects, touching it against metal props made a variety of shrieks and squeals and submerging a whole block in hot water produced quite possibly the best bubbling magic cauldron sound I’ve ever heard! I’m looking forward to playing around with these recordings in Reaper to see how I can manipulate them further…once my hands have warmed up again of course!
Dangling this metal chain onto the dry ice sounded cool, but tightly wrapping and squeezing the chain against the ice block sounded even better!