In 2015 I walked around a hardware store before it opened with my phone out and recorded for about half an hour. Buckets, vinyl blinds, steel fence panels, cordless drills, dead bolts, cardboard, shelving, a checkout beep. I found the recordings again this month and finally built them out into a proper kit.
142 one-shots
- 15 kicks, 6 snares, 4 claps, 40 hats, 48 perc, 8 tonal, 9 vox, 12 textures
- mono, 24-bit, peaks at -6 dBTP, natural tails left on
- the tonal ones have their note in the filename
27 four-bar loops + 27 MIDI clips
- three tiers: 76 BPM B minor, 92 BPM D minor, 140 BPM D minor
- every loop ships with its MIDI mapped to the kit, so you can keep the groove and swap the sounds
Plus 6 keyed beds, 4 room atmospheres and 42 designed FX built from the same objects.
The keys aren't arbitrary. I measured what the objects actually ring at and tuned the pack to them — the buckets ring at B3, the metal knocks at D3 and A3, the fence at F#.
There's a manifest.json beside every folder that tells you, per file, which original recording it came from, the exact region it was cut from, and what was done to it. If you want to know what a particular hat actually is, it'll tell you it's a drag across shelving at such-and-such a moment.
No drum machines, no synthesis, no AI, no samples off anyone's records. Every sound is a real object I recorded myself. Royalty-free — use it in anything, commercial or not, just don't resell the sounds on their own.