Halloween again

Once again Xaudia spent most of October at York Maze, getting ready for Halloween. The Maze has two haunted houses, tractor rides through the haunted fields of corn, and pig racing. All of which need sound systems.  Here's the Hearse, before getting a shiny new paint job....

These two goats took great interest in the wiring of a PA system for the pig racing. Unfortunately by the end of the season they had eaten through some of the cable, causing a couple of speakers to go down. The goats were fine.

There were also owls, including Florence, a beautiful Eagle owl.

Anyway, we survived Halloween, so back to the world of microphones for another year!

Sounds from the halloween maze

The big 'Hallowscream' event at York Maze is now over for the year, and the guys and girls are now hurridly getting ready for Guy Fawkes night. It's a quick turn around so good luck!

Several people asked to hear the sounds that we 'created' for the two Halloween haunted houses. I took most of the sounds from the Freesound Project, which is a very handy searchable library of sounds, most of which are available through the Creative Commons license scheme. Other sounds used were my own creations.

The creepy clown theme for the 'CarnEvil' haunted house was based on a loop from The Midnight Syndicate, who specialise in music for haunted house and similar attractions. Some of their tracks were also used for background music in the theatre area.

I'll leave these tracks up for a week or so, so grab them quickly. Enjoy!

Carnevil Haunted House

Main Clown Theme

Upside down room music

Meat Locker

Boiler Room

Barnegeddon

Toilet Lobby
(A mash-up of Beethoven, Mozart, and some C&W in the background!)

Steampunk 1

Steampunk 3

Halloween? Hallowscream

For a change, I have spent most of October fitting speakers and providing the sounds for the Halloween events at York Maze close to our studio, and now it's all up and running - we had over 1000 people through the gate last night and are expecting even more this evening. The two haunted houses are excellent scary fun, and the creepy clown music will worm its way into your brain and keep you up all night.

A couple of people have asked for clips of the music from the haunted houses, and I'll try to post those up tomorrow.