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This is my recreation of the noise in the background of a video shot on a consumer grade MiniDV camcorder (a well used one). I haven't had a MiniDV camcorder on hand for a few years and nobody I knew would give me a recording of just tape motor noise so I went to create the noise myself. This sound is a combination of a very badly pressed DVD in my computer's drive mixed with a tone made in Audacity (up one octave from the tone that the disc ended up creating), all mixed down and brought down in volume. I know it's not a prefect recreation, but I don't have a MiniDV camcorder on hand so this is about as good as I can get it. If anyone has access to an anechoic chamber, a fresh tape, and a well used consumer grade MiniDV camcorder, please get in touch with me. I'd like the real deal better than my recreation that I did in my spare time.
Note on recreating the noise out of HDV camcorders. They have slightly different hardware and as such will create different bearing noise (most times, there's an extra whine on top of the familiar bearing whine heard from standard DV camcorders). I forget the exact frequency, but it's somewhere in the neighborhood of 840Hz-860Hz and it's a sort of sine wave, but a modest bit more jagged. You'll have to provide your own stock camcorder mic hiss as each camcorder is different (not for definite sure on Sony camcorders, but Canon camcorders have a pink-ish white noise in about that era).
Type
Flac (.flac)
Duration
62:34.420
File size
374.9 MB
Sample rate
96000.0 Hz
Bit depth
16 bit
Channels
Stereo
5 years, 5 months ago
I needed a background hum to last just over an hour, so yay!
7 years, 6 months ago
This is exactly what I'm looking for but the file is over an hour and 374 MB at 96 kHz which I think is entirely unnecessary for something that's only going to be used a max of 45 seconds.