During my recent Sound Effects recording adventures I came across a particular item which I thought could, in the future, become very useful. This was a short Japanese Bayonet. The casing was very rusty but the blade was in very good condition, albeit very oily. Here is a picture of the blade and casing…

When I found this (rumaging through my Grandparents garage), I immediatly thought this could make, or be part of, a very useful sample pack. Straight away I started to tap, bang, slide, scrape, shake and draw the sword. Consiquently these are just some of the samples recorded from this bayonet:
More samples are to be added to this pack such as higher intensity hits. The next items on the SFX list are hammers and small axes. These will all combine to create a new Arrowhead Audio Sample pack