Designer Door Bell (disquiet0253) by Ambient Rushton

Disquiet Junto Project 0253: Doorbell Rehab

Record some welcome music.

Step 1: Ring your own doorbell. Consider how it sounds outside your door, to a visitor, and inside, to you, the inhabitant.

Step 2: Compose a new, personalized doorbell sound. Make a recording of how it might sound to the visitor and to the inhabitant.

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Annotate your track with a brief explanation of your approach and process:

I really like my house's door bell, a wireless Heath/Zenith SL-6180-RX-A by Desa International, manufactured in the past decade. The house was built in 1986, but there's no evidence that it ever had a wired door bell from that era. We live in an "almost rural" setting on a private drive and the houses have more than an acre of hilly woods between them. We never get any kids on Halloween (the nearby main road is quite narrow, no sidewalk, no lights, and the houses spaced far apart) and what few political canvassers we've had show up in their car.

Instead of composing something new, I decided to alter the original sound in a way that I normally would. This means pitch shifting it down a bit, adding some reverb, and doing things that bring out the imperfections in the original electronic door bell sound.

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More on this 253rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Doorbell Rehab: Record some welcome music” — at:

http://disquiet.com/0253/

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