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Tim Prebble HISSandaROAR
@hissandaroar.bsky.social
mostly field recording + sounddesign + sfx libraries via HISSandaROAR.com
also composer/musician + uav + xpan timprebble.com
www.imdb.com/name/nm0695670
https://linktr.ee/TimPrebble
Aotearoa New Zealand
No to selfies religion crypto AI slop spotify
Pinned
a Robin in Kahurangi National Park
Aotearoa New Zealand
#listen
weird things at auction: an offcut of Air NZ carpet!?
At CentralMarkets auction in Lower Hutt on Thursday this week
#nz
November 18, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Got home last night from excellent two week road trip around the South Island of Aotearoa - route marked in red, travelled 2,500km/1,500 miles in 2 weeks through some of the most iconic landscapes NZ has to offer - doing lots of #fieldrecording and shooting film! love #nz
November 17, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Reposted by Tim Prebble HISSandaROAR
Stream the new album by Ann Kroeber & Alan Splet

At The Wire website, Translation Loss Records and Pro Sound Effects share an exclusive early stream of David Lynch collaborators Ann Kroeber and Alan Splet’s I Thought I Heard A Stranger

www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks...
Stream the new album by Ann Kroeber & Alan Splet - The Wire
Translation Loss Records and Pro Sound Effects share an exclusive early stream of Ann Kroeber and Alan Splet’s I Thought I Heard A Stranger
www.thewire.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
new microphone fluffy has attitude!
November 14, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Reposted by Tim Prebble HISSandaROAR
Record store, too
Be the reason your local independent bookstore stays in business.
November 14, 2025 at 2:31 AM
cute new model of lawnmower
November 14, 2025 at 4:14 AM
So great to meet Blair today, the 'Lost Gypsy' of Catlins
thelostgypsy.com

If you have no idea WTF I am referring to, watch this vid & then add him to your 'must visit' bucket list
vimeo.com/74599830

So inspiring to meet a national treasure #nz
#kinetic #sounddesign
Lost & Found
In a remote corner of New Zealand’s South Island, tucked away among the last remaining tracts of native forest, lies a little-known place of wonder. It is…
vimeo.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:48 AM
ensemble recording, Mt Somers #nz
November 6, 2025 at 9:35 AM
sheep with a view
#nz
November 5, 2025 at 2:54 AM
favourite new recording location... WWII acoustics!
November 3, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Reposted by Tim Prebble HISSandaROAR
Neutrinos are the second mot common subatomic particles in the Universe, after photons.

You live in a photon-and-neutrino universe.

Hold up your thumb.

100 billion neutrinos are passing through your thumbnail every second.

8 1/2 minutes ago they were in the centre of the Sun.
November 1, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Reposted by Tim Prebble HISSandaROAR
Next Thursday I'll be helping Teenage Engineering out with the whirlwide launch of their Riddim N' Ting music/fun creation Supertone unit at Music Works on Dominion Road 6-8PM. It's a free entry flingdown with tons of TE trickery but please hit the link below for tickets as thats how they do 1/2
October 30, 2025 at 4:26 AM
The wind in #wellington is forecast to be even stronger tonight... so I am preparing v2 of the aoelian pipes!
8 pipes this time, with 8 mics, gaffer taped to my boom

just waiting for the rain to stop
October 27, 2025 at 2:47 AM
new HISSandaROAR library released last week:
SD081 CAMERA ROBOTS - three motion control bots, captured 24/192k with audio + EMF

www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_Om...
#sounddesign
#gameaudio
HISSandaROAR SD081 CAMERA ROBOTS
YouTube video by tim prebble
www.youtube.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:40 PM
true?
I only have birds for close neighbours & at times I have the opposite issue - will catch myself playing vibraphone in tune with the Tuis
October 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Visited a friend yesterday who has repaired the shutter & lens on my 1898 Instagraph camera... He showed me his camera collection and... lets say I feel better about my bunch of cameras & synths, outboard etc..
October 24, 2025 at 9:34 PM
fragile masculinity - Wairarapa
#nz
October 24, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Six random length pipes + Six LOM Usi Pro
= Gale Force Wind Pipes!?
October 23, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Gale Force NW winds shaking the house rn!

recording 32/192k to 8 tracks:
5.0 in lounge plus LOM Geophone to roof
and an 8020 in upstairs fireplace
and an 8020 in downstairs fireplace

It is quite strange listening to the chimney mics!!
#wellington #fieldrecording
October 22, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Wild skies!
The calm before the storm
#wellington #nz
Canon 5D3 x Zeiss 21ZE lens
October 22, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Only thing to do when the wind is so strong: record it!
WINDY AF - gale Nor West winds pounding the house
October 20, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Excellent visit on Saturday to the National Archive for their 60th Birthday Celebration!

An R P Moore negative x Kodal Cirkut camera
1/n
October 20, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Reposted by Tim Prebble HISSandaROAR
If you wanna come say hello and see what we do at the National Library of New Zealand - feel free to come along to this: natlib.govt.nz/events/natio...

I'll be there with some cool cartoons and comics
natlib.govt.nz
October 10, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Reposted by Tim Prebble HISSandaROAR
One of the weirdest trends right now. I guess people think louder is better... ?

It sounds like ass!
When did everyone start holding lavaliers up to their mouths in short-form web videos? Every video is distorted ASMR now. I am gonna sick @randycoppinger.bsky.social on all of you.
Henri Microphone GIF
ALT: Henri Microphone GIF
media.tenor.com
October 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Interesting to compare an FFT of same device - audio then EMF...
October 7, 2025 at 8:46 PM