Creative Approach to Sampling
With so many great options these days for standard techniques and articulations, we focus on including more options of unusual articulations such as col legno tratto (NO! Not regular col legno, but instead where you bow the strings with the wood of the bow, creating an unusual, haunting tone), recording a 55 Gallon Oil Drum (like you’d see in the back of a car parts store) as a percussion instrument, and more.
We also focus on dry, close micing techniques to give the samples an ultra-realisitc sound that blends in seamlessly with live recording.
In addition, some of the libraries are recorded through reel to reel tape, slowed down and otherwise manipulated.
Violin Extended Techniques
Sale Price:
$39.00
Original Price:
$48.00
Violin extended techniques, over 1 GB. Mic placement uncomfortably close in order to get a very intimate, extremely real, un-produced tone.
INCLUDES:
• Bariolage (arpeggiated raked bowing across 4 strings)
• Pizzicato
• Tremolo
• col legno
• col legno tratto (bowed with the wood of the bow, instead of hitting with the wood which is regular col legno)
• chaotic horror effects
• slowed col legno effect
Tape Slowed Percussion
$19.00
Various percussive sounds recorded and slowed down in an old reel-to-reel tape machine. Re-recording it at a slower tape speed creates a deep full percussive sound unlike any other. Mixes great with other percussion libraries to create more depth.
Harpsichord
$12.00
Single register harpsichord, closed miced for an intimate full sound. Nothing fancy, if it ain’t baroque, don’t fix it.
55 Gallon Oil Drum
Sale Price:
$30.00
Original Price:
$38.00
55 Gallon Oil Drum sampled as a Kontakt instrument.
This is a secret weapon amongst percussive sample libraries, to create unusual tones. Each part of the oil drum produces a slightly different sound when hit with a soft mallet, perfect for blending with other percussive sounds.
Note: it’s a small, basic library, nothing fancy, single dynamic range and one set of sounds.
You need a full version of Kontakt Player for this instrument.
Kalimba with Vibrato
$12.00
An old Kalimba with vibrato tone holes, played with vibrato. Limited range, but great, unusual sound!
Marxophone
$15.00
This marxophone sample library is recorded intentially imperfect, some intonation imperfections and close miced with 3 round robbins and 3 dynamic layers in order to acheive a realistic and rustic sound, not a produced/ polished style.
About Us
Strange Creations Audio is born from a need of samples, recording techniques and articulations that weren’t available in other libraries.
Infused with a passion for experimenting with sampling instruments and strange sounds in ways that sound unique in order to use sample libraries without sounding generic — running things through a tape machine and re-recording it at slower tape speeds, etc.
Home brewed in Los Angeles.
This is not your source for ultra-polished, produced sounds.