The source recordings have been created on the basis of individually designed and manually produced wooden machines. Basic sound types in both source and design sections of the library are: Rattling, Friction, Knocking, Clicking and Metal Spin. These archaic machines are not exactly driven, so you can hear rhythm irregularities. Many files have gradual starts and ends.
Gear Sources – 75 original recordings. The standard stereo files have been backed up by MS versions, that are recommended for extreme stereo image manipulations, but it is also possible to extract clear Co100K mono from the left channel. Slightly cleaned and edited for those who would like to design from scratch.
Gear Designed – the 65 standard stereo sounds by their content represent complex mechanisms that fulfill the whole frequency spectrum. From ultrarealistic details up to abstractly unknown sounds. Here we are still in 192 kHz domain.
215 files including both LR and MS sources, total runtime 345 minutes, 24 GB unpacked
Native 192kHz / 24bit – the greatest resolution to give you many options for your own sound design manipulations
Sanken CO100K microphone captures up to 100 khz frequency data
Sennheiser MKH30 microphone is a well-trusted figure-8 microphone with darker timbres
These mics were used in MS stereo configuration, so the end user can set up the stereo image naturally
Recorded on Zoom F8
Cleaned and designed in the latest Pro Tools Ultimate, with industry standard plugins
Meta tagged in Soundly
Kai Paquin –
Wooden Gears is possibly the first and only library of it’s kind, and one I don’t think will be topped any time soon. Sonically, the clarity and isolation of sources are impeccable. The library it’s self spans a variety of different size gears and speeds making for a really great tool kit. Additionally, there were a number of sounds I wouldn’t have expected from this library like the delicate resonant clacks of small gears.
The only draw back I ran into with this library is metadata, it suffers from similar filenames and descriptions, so it’s hard to find the takes of one gear that is squeaky apart from the takes that are clunky or hissy, so as a user, I’ll probably take the time to add some additional descriptors. There are pretty good categorizations though the file structure that were helpful though.
Over all, this library is definitely worth the purchase and will be handy in the future!