Creating New Foleys

Creating foleys outside the foley studio.

I've never done foleys outside of the Foley Studio before, so it was great to experience and a different way to create the same environment of a Foley Studio. We set up a computer in the live room of the Neve studio on a portable table, making sure we could see the control room and audio engineer, through the glass partition. We set up a talkback microphone (Shure SM58) in the room as well as 2 microphones to record the foleys. The 2 foley microphones were:

Rode NT2-A (Condenser)

Rode NTG-1 (Condenser)

In the Neve Studio control room, we set up ProTools ready to recorded the sounds and had the video on the TV monitor on the wall. The idea is to loop the scene on the computer in the Live Room, and recorded the foleys in the Control Room. By separating the audio on one computer and viewing on another, it allows you to record without stopping. If you were in the Foley Studio, you could do the same thing by looping a scene and putting the record button on loop to make a playlist while the scene was looping. This is just another way of creating a makeshift foley recording environment. The foley artist still can sink the foley sound to the looped video scene in the control room. Once the foley sound feel and sink is right (via viewing the other computer), you can then keep the good one and delete the rest, Then sink it to the Control Room copy of the video.

In the Neve live room, we had a heap of items to choose from to create the perfect foley sound. To the right is Phil holding a bag of empty bottles and cans so we can create a sound for our video.

Below is how we created the foley sound for walking through the field.

We used kitchen utensils and other items we thought would do the job for various sounds required. Once we had everything set up and ready to go. The time just flew by and before we knew it, it was time to pack and clean up. I think we got some really good foleys that can be used in the trailer - A Quiet Place 2

The best foley sound out of the kitchen utensils was the whisks.

Tools of the trade below.