Favorite sounds

[cgarges]

The tom sounds on "Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald."
Awqesome. (With a "q")

Chris Garges
Charlotte, NC

[thesimulacre]

The buzzing when the end of a 1/4 cord touches somebody's fingertip as an amp/guitar connection is being made

I once recorded a half-hour of manually-triggered 1/4" buzz arpeggiation through various fx. It made for some great sample sets! Love it

Here's a few of my personal fav's:

>pretty much anthing synthesized with z3ta+
>my nephew experimenting with real-time vocal processing for the first time through Ronin and KT Granulator
>the sympathetic reverberation of piano strings
>the "assymetric" preset on LazySnake by Andreas Ersson
>hearing the sound my computer makes when excessive tweaking has crashed it (you know...BBBRRRRTTTTTT!!!). Then routing that in a feedback loop through some crappy Rat-Shack equalizers at high-resonance.
>the natural EQ sweep of walking up on a party in the middle of the woods.
>that one bird that starts in around 4 in the morning in the spring and summer in Colorado.
>the massive rumble that follows taking a running leap off a steep sand dune.

[scott anthony]

Many have been covered by this point... I'd like to add:

upright bass
tack piano
big muff
memory man
bubbles
tape hiss
laughter
boo reiners' b-bender
ebow
nyc streets @ night after a good show and a few pints of Guiness...

[A-Barr]

I love the sound of breaking glass.

[apropos of nothing]

Man. Can we compile field recordings of all these fuckers?

Add stepping on not-quite-thawed ice. When it creaks and then little shards break. I love that!

[Theron D]

Tom Waits voice with a shot of bourbon and a camel filtered from the 70's on hotwax


theron D

[PeterAuslan]

The Leslie'd guitars in "Sun King" by the Beatles.

[;ivlunsdystf]

The voices of Emmylou Harris and Alison Krauss, separately or together

[californiawizkids]

pedal steel guitar
mellotron
small tube amps
bells (the small keyboard kind from elementary school)
vibraphone
stan getz's sax
mandolin
fender rhodes

[xSALx]

Celeste in a large room. 9' Steinways with omnis 10' up and 15' away in a good room. dx7s. bass clarinet playing presto. of course, slapback. over compressed drum room mics.

[Shields]

I'll second calliope and Ringo's drums
Tabla
Cello
Clarinet

[RefD]

i love almost all of those!

additions:

- runaway regeneration using a tape echo/analogue delay/old 8-bit DDL

- singing in a quiet parking garage

- swept oscillating resonant filters

- Telecaster through a small amp in a tiled bathroom

[A-Barr]

I could never get enough of distorted neck position pickups. Like the tone on Cream's "She Walks Like a Bearded Rainbow"... love that cool, "doooh" sound he gets... It's permanently turned me off to 24-fret guitars because they can't push the pickup far enough up the neck to get that sound, in my opinion.

[Marlowe]

-strong wind blowing a house or through trees

-Crows

-Cicadas

-LP crackles, especially 78s

-Tabla

-Scissors cutting near your ear during a haircut

-Thunder

-Mellotron

-Sparklers (and real fireworks that make that crackly sound at the end)

-Tone of Santana-esque guitar solo in the quiet part of "I Want You (She's So Heavy)".

-The sound of John McLaughlin's steel string playing in the Shakti records.

-Well done octave guitar effects (Purple Haze solo, Fool In The Rain solo, etc.)

-My Epiphone Casino through my wacked out overdriven Twin. It's so damn good!

[mjau]

My wife, an ornithologist in training, has inspired me to learn to appreciate the sounds of the following:
Carolina wrens
spring peepers...whatever those little frogs are
Screech owls
this crazy Mockingbird by my grandparent's old place that would mimic the sound of a car alarm
goldfinches