New Ambience: Steampunk Station (Patreon)

Greetings Patrons,

Here's a grand interior of a Victorian era (or not!) train station, complete with massive central clock, and various and sundry contraptions, keeping the trains running on time. 

It's based around a field recording I did at Grand Central Terminal here in NYC a few years ago (the before times!). I've used it in pieces before because sometimes there's no substitute for actual in-place recordings. I've tried putting crowd noises into spacious reverbs and it always ends up feeling a little contrived - which can good if you're going for sci-fi. Here however,  it needed to be more grounded.

I had to make dozens of little edits in the recording to cut out people speaking too close to the recorder, and some fairly obvious announcements. All this is to say that it turned out pretty well.

For the music, I went a little overboard and did a fairly full orchestration with a deep bow toward Howard Shore's excellent Hugo soundtrack. In fact, the first scene from that film is more or less how I pictured this environment. 

While this is a train station (there's one subtle train departure sound), there's no reason it couldn't be an air-ship station, or simply a bustling central location in any time period.

I've attached a music-only version, as well as an ambience-only version which I hope will inspire many different types of stories.

Thank you all, as always, for your continuing support.

Best,

Tim

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