This week’s sound effect is an example of my favorite commandment from The Sound Effects Bible. Commandment 8 states that you need to get right up on the source of your recording.  For my example I’m giving you a recording of how I would have done it in the past (just pointing the microphone at the door), and then I’m giving you an example of the proper way (getting right up on the squeaking hinge).  There are no effects processors on either recording, besides a little compression to even out the volume. 

            My observation is that the second one is very vibrant with the sound of the hinge actually bouncing and squeaking against itself.  You can tell what the first one is, but after comparing the two, the second one has way more character.  Granted, I wouldn’t use these in a film, as they are slightly annoying and were the only door I had access to at the moment, but I think the example gets what I wanted to across.