Building a sampler of the engineering wheels “bell” sound has been relatively easy, thanks to the mock-up process that I described in earlier blogs. I’ve been able to take the samplers that I’d already created and replace the sounds I used to do those mock-ups with the actual recordings of Bree and Claire hitting things. We made lots of recordings of each wheel at different loudnesses, so I have an awful lot of variation for each sound, meaning it should be pretty difficult to tell that it’s a sample and not the actual performance (which is really obvious if you have to use the same sound at different loudnesses and pitches)…