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I'm looking for a very deep, prolonged and reverberating gong sound of the kind that would be emitted by one of those 10 foot diameter temple gongs. The sounds I have found up to now are tinny, clashy Chinese-New-Year kind of sounds. Can anyone help ?

Paddy

I have better gong sounds on my hard drive at home, but if you're in a hurry, try:

http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.php?id=18617

Hope this helps,
Paul

That's just the trick, Paul. Thanks very much. I'd also searched various soundtracks of Kodo musicians without success.

Paddy

don't know what the sound is needed for, but you might want to try adding the sound of a large singing bowl to the tail of the gong to prolong it....for as long as you need, or until you arms get tired...

Thanks for this idea.

The sound is needed as an lead-in to, and termination of, daily meditation. I'm at the beginning of the Sounds learning curve and don't have dedicated sound equipment or software (yet!), just a laptop. I want to take a gong sound and "glue it" to an MP3 file of 15 minutes pure silence and then "glue" another gong file on the end. Right now I'm trying to work out how to create a 15-minute MP3 file of pure silence. I tried recording a file with my laptop without the microphone plugged in but there is some faint but irritating background noise, presumably from the laptop electronics or the cooling fan. I'm wondering if there is an amplitude parameter in the MP3 file which I can set to zero (= silence) and, if so, how I can edit that parameter. Then I have to find out how to glue the three MP3 files together - presumably just a question of finding some simple editing software. Watch this space, as they say.

Paddy