I spent some time walking through creek water a few days ago along with my boom pole, Audio Technica BP4025 microphone and Zoom F3 recorder.  I certainly appreciated wearing my rubber boots.  The water was shallow and perfect for recording the sloshing/splashing sounds.  I recorded several different sounds of walking from a leafy creek bank into the water and then walking from the water onto the bank and ending with several footsteps on leaves and sticks.  The creek runs just a few houses down from my home so it was extremely convenient to capture the sounds.

Take a listen to a couple of the sounds below.  These sounds can be purchased on AudioJungle.

I love a good microphone and the Audio Technica BP4029 stereo shotgun is a really good mic and I'm happy to add it to my collection.  I'm looking forward to using it to capture more sound effects outdoors but I've been busy using it in the studio the last few days.  Take a listen below to some of the sounds I've captured this week including:  Match Strike, Champagne Cork, Opening Storm Door, Opening Kitchen Drawer and Paper falling from desk.

These sounds are available for purchase on AudioJungle.

I produced a number of stretching sound effects using a latex glove and my Audio Technica BP4025 microphone and Zoom F3 Recorder. After some processing in Logic Pro X  I mixed some in stereo and some in mono.  They are now available for purchase on AudioJungle.

​Take a listen to a few of the sounds below.

And the hits just keep coming!  We're happy to announce that we've added the children's classic song "Apples & Bananas" to our music library. What a fun song to help teach children about vowels!  The track features the beautiful voice of recording artist Emily Gootee and you'll find yourself singing along almost instantly.

Take a listen below.

This track is available for purchase through AudioJungle.

It's been a fun week with lots of energy around producing more children's songs for the library!  Our kid's songs have been a hit on AudioJungle and are all over YouTube.  It's time we added new ones.  I'm grateful to recording artist Emily Gootee for providing some wonderful vocals to our children's songs.  Today we finished up the classic "If You're Happy And You Know It" and Emily nailed it!  It is now available for purchase on AudioJungle.  

​Take a listen below.

I spent parts of the last couple of days recording various board game sound effects.  This included checkers sounds, rolling dice, chess movements, and other typical board game sounds.  Several of the sounds are already online on AudioJungle and are available for sale and I'm anticipating more to be approved within the next couple of days.  I used my Neumann KMR 81i microphone on most of the sounds along with my Zoom F3 recorder and then processed the sounds in Logic Pro.

Take a listen to a sample of a few of the sounds I recorded below.

We've been busy in the studio producing lots of different children's music tracks in the last couple of weeks.  The concentration has been on tracks that are 0:30 - 0:40 seconds in length and produced in a way that is easy to take half of the track (if needed) for a short video musical background for Kid cartoons and YouTube videos.  Most of the tracks are playful and happy tunes but we also are adding suspenseful and "sneaky" musical tracks as well.

We're hearing our productions more and more in some of the top children's YouTube videos such as "Like Nastya", "Diana & Roma" and "Vlad & Nicki".  Some of these videos are viewed literally Millions and  BILLIONS of times!

Take a listen to a track we just finished and uploaded today entitled "Happy Kids Smiling Musical Transition".  This track will be available for purchase within the next few days on AudioJungle.

P.S.  Happy to add Walmart to our long list of well known companies and businesses who use our productions!

We're very excited about meeting the milestone of having 10,000+ exclusive sounds now available on AudioJungle! Whoop!  Whoop! This has been a goal for a few years and it feels great to finally achieve it.  Each week we continue to add new sounds to our library and now we have a new goal of reaching 15,000 sounds!  As our library grows, so do sales and we're excited about 2023. We look forward to acquiring new customers who use our productions and increasing our download numbers.  

Below is our 10,000th sound.  An acoustic guitar/piano driven musical intro.  check it out!

My old college roommate Richard Hall and I took another camping trip to Little Pee Dee State Park Campgrounds near Dillon, SC this past weekend.  This time we stayed in a nice, heated little cabin by the lake.  Though it was a chilly weekend, we enjoyed ourselves with hiking and capturing various sounds including water splash sounds.  Using my handy 10' boom pole along with my Zoom F3 recorder and Audio Technica BP-4025 microphone we were able to get several really good splash effects.  Richard recently started selling sounds online under the name Sound Monkey. It's nice to have a good buddy to share the love of recording with.  We've been best buddies since 1979 and have shared a lot of life experiences together and have similar interests.  Our next trip will be up at Lake Lure, NC in April.

Take a listen below to a couple of the water splash sound effects we captured.  These sounds are available for purchase on AudioJungle.

What an amazing year 2022 has been and I could not be happier with the growth of our library and the number of sales we've had in the past 12 months.  We've added over 3500 sounds to our library this year which is probably a record for us.  It has been a blast producing these sounds and I'm already looking forward to 2023 and the new sounds/music we'll add.  Our sales are better than ever and 2023 looks extremely promising with potential sales records.  

Thank you so much for supporting Apple Hill Studios this year and I wish you a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year for 2023!!!

God bless you.

Mark Teachey
applehillstudios.com