3.5 inch FDD, model NEC FD1231H, production date 2000.10

Sampled by Shiru, 28.06.2017


To make the recording, the disk drive has been controlled by an Arduino with a
sketch that played all possible sounds. Recorded using Shure C606N microphone
with Behringer U-Phoria UMC204 sound interface. The samples then has been
cleaned up with a little bit of noise reducion in Audacity (no EQ applied),
cut and looped manually in Wavosaur, keeping the starting and stopping clicks,
with a loop inbetween. Volumes between various sounds has been tweaked up a bit
to even them out, because there was huge volume boost at resonant frequencies,
which sounded just unusable for music purposes. Sample seek_34.wav has been
made out of seek_33.wav by shifting pitch one semitone up, because the floppy
drive always get jammed at this exact speed.

You can use these samples separately from the Flopster VSTi under the
Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license terms.


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