Contact Mic

I remember when I was a child, I had a stethoscope that I think my family picked up at a garage sale. It was a blast to run around with it listening to stuff, especially my family's Siberian Huskies.

Lately I've been going around to every object I can think of & taping a contact mic to it to see what the vibrations sound like.

I've drawn a lot of knowledge and inspiration from Tim Prebble's Music of Sound post on recording the Hiss and Roar contact mic library.

While I haven't been using a preamp designed specifically for use with a contact mic such as the Barcus Berry 4000 (The mic is a simple piezo to XLR), I did record with the excellent Sound Devices MixPre.

Here are a few of the unprocessed recordings: