Who recorded these?

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Stephanie,

As you mention, SoundDogs was aquired by Sound Ideas in 2019.

I only have good experiences with Sound Ideas, going back some 30 years when I first met them at NAB. Still have all the CDs that I’ve purchased over the years.

I would assume that when they took over SoundDogs, that they would also have the documentation for the origina of the sounds, or who recorded/made them.

You can find more detailed contact info on LinkedIn, including who is who:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/sound-ideas-sound-effects-library/

I have reached out to my contact, and shared the link to your post.

But won’t hurt if you make yourself known directly to them.

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Mads

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[Stephanie Barber]

Hi Mads!

Thank you so much for your reply 🙂

I in fact did contact them, as well as someone through the SoundDogs website but both responded by saying that the info I’m looking for wouldn’t be traceable. However, I contacted both through the main “Contact Us” link, so I’ll look at the link you supplied.

At least one of the recordings in the set *does* have some sort of identifier on the “Composed by” field so I still have hopes of finding them. Hopefully with your and your contact’s help, it’ll be possible.

I’m just really eager to learn about the building in which these recordings were made!

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Stephanie,

Happy to help where possible.

I suspect, looking at the other audio files coming up with similar name, when doing a search on SoundDogs. That the Audio file that you are interested in, may have come out of a Foley session. Rather than be recorded on location.

Which could explain why it can’t be traced to an actual location.
If you can get the details of the person that did the recording, that might help.

I suspect that in time, maybe not in the near future, A.I. (LLMs) will have a global database of accustics, that allows you to pinpoint a recording to a specific place. But I wouldn’t get my hopes up on that, as there are too many variables involved.

Keep Hunting!

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Mads

[Stephanie Barber]

Thank you! 🙂

I’m sure they were recorded at an actual location as there are both up-and downstairs perspectives and they sound too authentic to be “staged”. You can also hear some outside sounds (some traffic?) during one of the upstairs recordings.

Hopefully the person you know may have some insight on them. 🤞 Please let me know what they say whenever you hear back! 👌🫶

[Stephanie Barber]

Please disregard the note I sent this AM, it’s too bad we can’t delete and replace them.

Anyway, this is the info I was referring to for the recordings in question. They’re all different tho 🤔

Composers:

SDC-028025; SDC-028031; SDC-028028;SDC-028026; SDC-028038; SDC-028032; SDC-028033; SDC-028035; SDC-028034; SDC-028037, and SDC-028036.

I’m about 99.999% sure they would have been field recordings because of the various atmospheric sounds in them.

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Stephanie,

You could be right.
Based on the list of “Composers”, one could read those names as file names on a SD Card from an audio recorder.

As in SDC-028025:
SDC = SD Card
028025 = File number. or date?
Keep in mind that the SD Card was introduced in the late 1990’s, when streaming and software was still in its infancy as too how many digits a file name could contain (PC and DOS devices).

Don’t know if this helps, but it is a thought to pursue.

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Mads