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Meriden Grain (IR Pack)

by Rachel Beetz

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    This is a set of 28 impulse responses and 14 ambient audio samples taken at my family's grain elevator in Meriden, IL in the summer of 2021. This collection captures six spaces from the grain elevator: three grain bins, an underground tunnel, a wooden shed, and a metal barn.
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about

Meriden Grain is a grain elevator in Meriden, IL founded by a farmer's cooperative around 1890. The original wood structure is still in use today. The cooperative dissolved in the 1960s, leaving the elevator under another company until 1976 when it was purchased by the Sam Beetz & Sons family farm. Meriden Grain serves as a bank for farmers to store and sell their corn after harvest. The business is licensed by the state and open to the public.

About each space:
West 105 Bin: A corrugated steel bin, 105 feet in diameter and 115 feet tall with a cone-shaped steel roof. It is the newest bin at the elevator, built in 2017.

East 105 Bin: The same construction as the West 105, but is shorter at 92 feet tall. It was built in 2008.

Superior Bin: A corrugated steel bin, 48 feet in diameter with a cone roof. Built in 1978, it is the oldest steel bin at the elevator.

Reclaim Tunnel: An underground tunnel connecting the East 105 and West 105 bins. A conveyor in the tunnel carries the grain out from the bottom of each bin, through the elevator, and into a truck bed outside.

Red Shed: A 20ft by 60ft red, wood barn with a hipped roof built in 1928 by a local contractor. It looks similar to a dairy barn.

Truck Barn: A modern metal barn that is 60ft by 160ft and 24ft tall. It stores six semi-trucks used to haul grain to and from the elevator.


The purchase comes with the right to use these sounds in your work. You are not allowed to repackage these as your own loops or share the files with others. Please do let me know if you publish anything with this pack - I'd love to hear what you come up with!

These grain bins hold the commercial products reaped from land stolen from the Ochéthi Sakóin, Hoocak (Ho-Chunk / Winnebago), Myaamia, Bodéwadmiakiwen (Potawatomi), Sauk and Meskwaki, Kaskaskia, Peoria, and Kiikaapoi (Kickapoo) people.

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released October 1, 2021

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