ESOTERIC METAL

From haunting drones to bombastic deep hits, our largest soundpack is a love declaration to crafted metal performed in beautiful sounding environments.
Esoteric Metal enables you to create rich and powerful evolving metal textures, stingers and mighty deep impacts for your next sound design project.

We recorded Gongs, Cymbals, Metal Profiles, Sound Bowls, Chimes and Custom Combinations which we performed, played, hit and rubbed with a carefully chosen collection of mallets, diverse super-balls, bows, and custom devices.

The space where we capture our recordings is crucial to us, and therefore we took a lot of effort to come up with 4 different and spectacular sounding spaces to offer you maximum sonic diversity. 
1. The recordings took place in an Orchestral Rehearsal Room, which has a nice and clear but also wooden warm reverb.
2. Further we recorded in a Huge Cathedral, which was a truly ethereal experience especially as we recorded during the night . It features a large clear reverb.
3. Third, we went to a Small Chapel, which had a very long and very dense reverb. Absolutely mind blowing. 
4. Last but not least, we went to one of the best studios in the benelux country, to get a classic studio recording room sound.

We recorded with 3 different mic setups and positions:

• For the first time we recorded in 7.0 Surround. 7 x sennheiser mkh8020 This setup was positioned quite distant to the sound source and will be a joy to use in wide cinema context.
• LCR with 3(!)Sanken co-100k, to get you the most high frequency action. They were positioned at medium distance to the sound source.
  
• 1 Schoeps MS (with XT body to extend the frequency range) positioned close to the sound source.