Through my Foley session we had the base of the engine sound. We had the mechanical part of a cistern or piece of old machinery that was on a cog, that we wound to create a sort of mechanical rhythm. Unfortunately I forgot to photograph but I pitched this recording captured with Szymon and Monika down a little and added a pitched down recording of Szymon making noises with his mouth – which for modesty reasons I won’t show unedited. I reversed this as well so it was less noticeable human. I placed these sounds on top of eachother and added EQ, Compression and Reverb. I then felt it was lacking the hum of an engine, which I used a makeshift recording of my terrible (probably not legal) kitchen fan.
The sound isn’t as mechanical as I would have liked. On a future project I would like to experiment more with finding these motor-like sounds. The metallic sounds are a little too high end and if I try to drop the pitch due to the frequency response of the microphones used, there is too much of a drop off on the higher frequency.
The idea was for the moped to sound like when someone is navigating a street with little burst of speed. So this idle engine sound in conjunction with the revving of an engine could create the illusion of a dynamic engine.
I recorded various revs to apply through our mixes by using my blender. I tried it with the lid off and on and recorded various velocities.