NEW SFX LIBRARY: Tractors HD Pro
Tractors HD Pro is diverse collection of sounds from a variety of tractors both large and small. Recorded in conventional and unconventional ways, this set of sounds should prove to be extremely useful for sound design for construction games, television and feature films.
Release Date: 11/10/25
Thunderstorm: Fury Released
Thunderstorm: Fury is a massive collection of thunder and lightning cracks, claps, booms, and rumbles, as well as full thunderstorm soundscapes. My largest Sound-FX Library yet! 18 Gigabytes of 32-Bit powerful and uncompromising North Idaho thunderstorms. Recorded over the last 4 years.
September 23, 2025 – CH-47D Chinook HD Pro Released!
I am excited to present all new CH-47D Chinook helicopter recordings from summer 2025 along with sounds captured from 2023 to 2024. Included are exterior close, medium close and distant turbine starts, hovering, arriving, departing and passing by during fire fighting duties and US Army unit flights.
Captured with high end stereo microphones in 96kHz/32-Bit Floating Point and delivered at 24-Bit/96kHz the sounds have incredible detail and a wide dynamic range.
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Release Date: 9/10/25
Motion Motors 2: Dirt Roads Released!
Motion Motors 2: Dirt Roads contains 300 24-Bit/96Khz vehicle motion sound effects from dirt roads in North Idaho. From smooth high speed passes to slow, gritty drive by’s this diverse set of sounds can be used as design elements for a wide range of genres. Automobiles, ATVs, Dump Trucks, Motorcycles, Road Graders, Excavators, Rollers and more! Nine years in the making!
Avid S1 EUCON-Enabled Desktop Control Surface
I purchased this for a music mixing project in 2022. Used one time. Like new!
Charles Maynes and Frank Bry have been friends and admirers of each other’s work for decades. They combined forces for the new sound effects library BLAST, that features incredible explosion recordings. They talk about the process of recording Tannerite, dynamite, debris and lots more. Plus they discuss their thoughts on 32bit recording, the importance of creativity in field recording and what is gained after years of practice with recorders and microphones.
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May 23, 2024
Scorpio 32-Bit Float Test
Sound Devices just released the firmware update to enable the Scorpio and other 8-Series recorders to record in 32 Bit Float mode. I ran the update and all went well. I was excited to finally have the Scorpio record in 96k/32Bit so I grabbed a HK SP5 9mm and set up a MKH8040ST XY microphone in the yard and gave it a work out.
November 6, 2023 – THUNDERSTORM 5 is alive! Thirty years ago I began recording thunderstorms while living in downtown Seattle in the early 1990s. I remember the very first lightning strike I ever recorded. I was on the rooftop of my apartment building with my AT-825 stereo microphone and my trusty Panasonic SV-255 portable DAT recorder. I heard the storm rolling in from the South so I stood in the doorway and patiently waited. Then… wham! Out of nowhere the strike hit the ground somewhere in the city and I was hooked! I was on a mission. After moving to North Idaho a few years later I was able to record thunderstorms without all the back ground noise of the city, the rest is history. Number 5 is alive!
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New York Times Magazine: How to Record Thunderstorms
“Find a quiet place and be patient. Prioritize your safety.” Illustration by Radio
I was contacted in March 2022 by The New York Times to discuss the ins and outs of recording thunderstorms for the Magazine section of their Sunday edition newspaper. Not a very technical article, mainly for beginners, that’s OK with me. It’s wonderful that a field recording article ended up in the Times.
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Hi all The Recordist fans!
Message from Frank:
In late 2021 Charles contacted me and filled me in on some bullet impact sounds he was creating for his work in a Seal Team episode that had lots of interior gun battles. He built a Soundminer v5 Radium preset with sounds from our sound collection called Bullets Re-Imagined. He added some interior reverb vibe and bounced them out so he could quickly work with them during his crazy ass busy work on the TV show. He liked them so much he wanted to share them. So, here they are in the original designed form and with the Radium preset he used. If you need sounds with no interior vibe, open the preset in Radium and have at it. 1000’s of combinations are at your finger tip. Enjoy! All my love. -Frank
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