Lower CC motorcycle library

Gohanto

Gohanto

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So film I'm working on has a small chase scene with smaller CC bikes over dirt , I would guess 125CC (more specifically they're boda-boda in Uganda). Production got some decent drive byes during shooting, but the bike perspective audio got destroyed by wind noise. I've tried piecing together drive-byes to create an on-board audio perspective, but without much luck. The only library I've currently got is an R1, which as you might guess doesn't really match, and from searching around all I've found are 500+ CC bikes.

Anyone have a small bike library that may be able to help?

Thanks,
 
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With out specifics on the bike it's hard to say but I imagine in Uganda you have something like the rough two cycle kind of sound of European scooters and such.

I would do a search for scooters, dirt bikes, and vintage WWI motorcycles, maybe old Indian bikes?

I would also ask on both the post section of the DUC and on the sound design board.

I needed muskets once and had someone give me a link to a bunch they had recorded a week before in less than an hour.

It helps if you have sounds you recorded so you can do a little tit for tat, but not a requirement.

Personally I suspect there are some good WWI recordings (not made in WWI obviously but of bikes of that vintage) that would work.

You could also look on Sound Dogs
 
I agree with Noiz2. I have a bunch of commercial libraries, and all they have are the typical start, idle, rev, drive away, drive by stuff. Nothing that is on board. Usually that is custom recorded for specific projects. You might be able to do a SFX trade with someone if they are willing. There has to be stuff out there, you just have to find it. Starting with what Noiz2 suggested is a great start. If you can get a hold of Charles Maynes (awesome sound designer and sound effects recordist), he might have something, but he usually licenses it out, so you might have to pay to use it, but his stuff is top notch, so it's worth it.
 
Thanks, Hadn't considered messaging Charles Maynes, to my knowledge his focus was on guns and military recordings.
 
Gohanto said:
Thanks, Hadn't considered messaging Charles Maynes, to my knowledge his focus was on guns and military recordings.
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That is his recording specialty but he is also an editor and designer and done all kinds of stuff. And of course he's a freelancer so you do what has a budget. He has a huge library. We have worked on a few ads together, and in the irony of the internet I have never actually met him though we have talked on the phone a few times.

One good reason to go out and record all kinds of stuff where ever you are is so you will have a library to trade. And Ironically the farther away from the post world centers the more desirable, in a lot of cases, your local recordings are going to be. There are years of ambience recordings around LA and Manhattan, but if your doing a show in LA and you need small town ambiences you have a long way to go to recored any.

The general unwritten rule is that most folks with libraries, and are not in the business of selling sounds, will give out sounds that they recorded with the understanding that you are going to use them and not sell them and that you will return the favor if you have something they need some time.

It helps if you know people, but trading sounds and helping someone out is a great way to get to know them.

Some folks are very proprietary, but most are in the mind set that it's not the sounds but how you use them.
 
So I took a quick shot at SoundDogs
Norton - got some WWII motorcycle tracks
125cc - got a variety of small motorcycle tracks
 
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