Foley is about creating the illusion of real sound. In an ordinary sound studio, the range of achievable real sound? is limited. By outfitting the old farmhouse with professional recording equipment, Footsteps Studios has created one of the most natural sounding recording environments available.
The floor of the main studio is broken up into surfaces: Shiny hard wood, marble tiles, old creaky wood, linoleum, and concrete. The walls are mounted with various kinds of doors and cupboards, latches, locks and handles. The room is scattered with furniture in varying degrees of squeak, creak and whompff abilities. The sound proofed double garage doors allow us to drive a car directly into the studio, which assists in creating sounds that use the acoustics of a car's interior, or to match the quality of the handling of a car door or the woosh of a wet windshield wiper.
The exteriors room accommodates the concrete, asphalt and cobblestone surfaces, as well as the dirt and gravel pit. The variable acousticroom also holds the water tank, which is used for recording any number of water effects. From a dripping faucet to a walk on the beach to a leaping whale splash-underwater or above as simple or as complex as necessary.
Our Foley kitchen/bathroom is equipped with working sinks, shower, toilet and tubs. The cupboards are equipped with every style of glassware, dish, cutlery and utensil. The medicine cabinet holds every imaginable pill case and bottle, toothbrush, cosmetic, and hygienic accoutrement.
The mezzanine houses our bedroom section equipped with a number of styles of beds, dressers, rocking chairs and side tables, alarm clocks, lamps, linen, bedding and pillows.
