I was talking to a friend of mine who is responsible for adding sound-effects to TV shows.<\/p>\n
I was reminded of the time that I did a radio-play for a school project. The script called for the sound of a glass (i.e. a tumbler) smashing, but I didn’t have access to any sound-effect libraries. There was only one thing for it.<\/p>\n
I went through our collection of glasses and selected the oldest, rattiest glass I could find, and enlisted my father’s help. I set up the microphone in a tiled area, and I sat with my finger on the pause button and counted down from five. On zero, I unpaused the recording as my father dropped the glass from a great height onto the hard, tiled floor….<\/p>\n
With a loud thunk, it bounced high off the tiles, still in one piece! It hadn’t smashed!<\/p>\n
I swore silently, and paused the recording again…<\/p>\n
…just as the glass landed after the bounce and smashed into hundreds of pieces.<\/p>\n
Sighing, I went off to hunt down the next-most old, ratty glass I could find.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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