jackpine Posted July 11, 2001 Share Posted July 11, 2001 A great replacement sound for a closed hi hat is a close miced sample of an areosol can (I've found that WD-40 is best).....just make sure you know which way the can is pointed or your 414 is toast. www.relayerstudios.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David R. Posted July 11, 2001 Share Posted July 11, 2001 Great topic! Let's see, drum machine high hat (sorry Lee!) through flanger for army of marching sissors, phone message of some poor woman mispronouncing "Embarcadero" 6 times in a row, Reagan saying "I don't recall". -David R. -David R. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RecreationalThinker Posted July 11, 2001 Author Share Posted July 11, 2001 I find it interesting that the majority of the suggestions on this thread have been of a percussive nature (as were my own examples). I'm wondering if a truly "strange" sound would be too much to handle in a melodic rather than a rhythmic sense? I'm going to mutilate some sustained/pitched sounds just to see if I can successfully incorporate them into a tune. One idea I have been toying with is processing my sax through a guitar processor, reversing the wave, vocoding it, then reversing it again. Or how about ensemble violins through a Wah pedal? I'm sure I will have some more equally psychotic ideas once I get done mowing my yard in this Texas heat... ------------------ What's on, your mind? I'm not a "people" person, I'm a "thing" person. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notape_dup1 Posted July 11, 2001 Share Posted July 11, 2001 Originally posted by RecreationalThinker: I'm sure I will have some more equally psychotic ideas once I get done mowing my yard in this Texas heat... Speaking of lawn mowers, I just recalled a time when I sampled the sound of a lawn mower, then I took my roland guitar-synth and midi'd it to the sampler. So every note I played on my guitar, the sampler would play the same note. I ran the original sound of the guitar into a distortion pedal which went directly into the board, then the output of the sampler into a Marshall JMP-1 cabinet emulator. I mixed the two together, added a little compression and viola. It made for a bone-grinding, death metal (ozzy would be proud) guitar sound. -nt This message has been edited by notape on 07-12-2001 at 11:40 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT40sc Posted July 12, 2001 Share Posted July 12, 2001 Threw an empty tuna can at the recycle bin, and missed. When the can hit the kitchen floor, it made a great "pitched snare" tone, like "In the Midnight Hour." For a kick drum, I bounced a grapefruit on the kitchen counter. High-hat? Knife and fork. Toms? Dropped some heavy books. The "cymbals" are a combination of a pan lid, a tire pump, and FM-radio hiss layered together. I have found that the generic "four for a dollar" tuna cans have a better tone than the 89-cent Bumblebee does. Higher ring, better sustain, no 400-Hz deadness. For what it's worth... SC SC "If the machine produces tranquillity, it's right." ---Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anderton Posted July 12, 2001 Share Posted July 12, 2001 Flash!! I just encoded a drum loop sample at the lowest fidelity options available with MP3 encoding and Real encoding. The sound is gruesomely interesting, check it out. Craig Anderton Educational site: http://www.craiganderton.org Music: http://www.youtube.com/thecraiganderton Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/craig_anderton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alphajerk Posted July 12, 2001 Share Posted July 12, 2001 Originally posted by strat0124: Ever have someone manipulate the knobs on an analog delay stompbox while you solo away? Makes for some otherworldly sounds, and even moreso if you do em backwards!!!!!! funny you say that. im getting ready to mix an album that the guitarist does that live with an expression pedal hooked up to the moogerfooger analog delay. we are actually going to "perform" the mixes as well with all the moogerfoogers, the control center, bunch of expression pedals hooked into them etc. NO AUTOMATION. either we get it or we dont. and yes, the sounds are nothing like i have heard a guitar make before. alphajerk FATcompilation "if god is truly just, i tremble for the fate of my country" -thomas jefferson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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