| Homemade Instruments [message #90718] |
Fri, 28 September 2007 11:12  |
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John [1]
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Registered: September 2005
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I'm looking to make some simple pro sounding instruments for percussion type
sounds. Anyone have ideas or sites that have tips?
I'm probably going to start with some glass pop bottles and something very
hard to get a bright ping out of. Also, some 16 oz pop bottles with rice
in them maybe for shakers. Any ideas? I'm looking for great sounds.
Thanks
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| Re: Homemade Instruments [message #90742 is a reply to message #90718] |
Fri, 28 September 2007 18:21  |
Nei
Messages: 108
Registered: November 2006
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If you're talking about percussion & such, try Google-ing
something along the lines of Native American instruments or
Native American percussion... I recorded a Native American
artist called Knifewing years ago, and - this is kinda weird, a
total dichotomy in a way - we looped recordings he had made of
tribal Shaman chants & percussion, etc. His recordings (and
they were on cassette, but they were pretty clean) were of
people playing instruments consisting of a turtle shell with
beads inside it, a gourd with dried peas inside, a wooden box
with deer ligaments stretched over a rudimetary soundhole...
pretty cool! We looped 'em using a TC-2290 for stuff that worked
better mono (we had the 7-second sampling option on that unit),
and also using a 2-track 1/4" for the stuff that really needed
to be stereo the old-fashioned way (using a pencil to tension
the outside of the loop lol!). Ancient sound-generating
techniques, looped by 20th-century technologies! lol
Anyway, it's a really natural, mellow/etherial sound if you can
look up & use those kind of materials... some of it might be
hard to find (turtle shells), and some if it will take some
preparation.... ok, so you didn't say "easy-to-make" homemade
instruments.
Seriously, look into it... might be interesting to you,
depending on the style of sound you're going for.
Neil
"John" <no@no.com> wrote:
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>I'm looking to make some simple pro sounding instruments for percussion
type
>sounds. Anyone have ideas or sites that have tips?
>
>I'm probably going to start with some glass pop bottles and something very
>hard to get a bright ping out of. Also, some 16 oz pop bottles with rice
>in them maybe for shakers. Any ideas? I'm looking for great sounds.
>
>Thanks
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