Pet (Peeve) Sounds

timbertrout · Post by **timbertrout** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 1:45 pm

Instruments that BUG you...Whether you're recording them in your studio, or just listening on the car stereo or HiFi

Here's my shortlist:

Splash Cymbal
China Cymbal
Fretless Bass

jrsgodfrey · Post by **jrsgodfrey** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 1:47 pm

DI'd acoustic guitars, which I hear more and more.

Second the Chinese cymbal.

andrew embassy · Post by **andrew embassy** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 1:47 pm

timbertrout wrote:Instruments used in music that BUG you...Whether you're recording them in your studio, or just listening on the car stereo or HiFi

Here's my shortlist:

Splash Cymbal
China Cymbal
Fretless Bass

+1

timbertrout · Post by **timbertrout** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 1:57 pm

Ah yes... DI piezo acoustic guitar. The sound of ass.

kayagum · Post by **kayagum** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 2:03 pm

Rainsticks: oops- that's for any live theater music
Wall of sludge Mesa scooped guitar for song chorus
Bullhorn vocals
Slap bass
House beat
Snare hit with no variation or fills

mertmo · Post by **mertmo** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 2:03 pm

Saxophone. The most non rock and roll sound there is. When I hear it, it makes me want to plug my acoustic guitar's pickup straight into a DI and hit record...

EDIT: I just realized I own every Morphine record. HMMM... OK, Morphine notwithstanding, I hate saxophones.

matyas · Post by **matyas** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 2:05 pm

Over-distorted, over-compressed, screamo vocals
7-string detuned over-distorted, Mesa-amped metal guitars
In-your-face metal bass
(Yeah, I hate metal, especially new-school..... okay)
The over-abused Cher-style Auto-tune as an effect (it's the new Gated Reverb, man!)
Twangy modern-country vocals
Thumping hiphop bass with no real pitch definition
And that's just the surface. I'm sure I could go on mich further.

matyas · Post by **matyas** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 2:07 pm

mertmo wrote:Saxophone. The most non rock and roll sound there is. When I hear it, it makes me want to plug my acoustic guitar's pickup straight into a DI and hit record...

Ahh... Man.... You hurt my feelings! (Says the former saxophone player with a piezo on his acoustic guitar....)

A-Barr · Post by **A-Barr** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 2:32 pm

That weird rack of chimes drummers have sometimes or those God-awful diva house vocals. Also any sampled "ethnic chant" or anything else robbed from a real and interesting "world" music, then looped and thrown into some new age schlock to make it sound exotic to the uneducated masses. I also hate:
The autotune thing
Mariah, Alanis or Ani wannabe's
Piezos! Jesus!
Dead-ass snare sounds
Chorus pedals
Hand clapping
The drawn out MC intros in hip hop
The stupid "heheh were we recording?" studio banter people deliberatly leave at the beginnings or ends of their tracks cause they think someone actually wants to hear that shit
Shrill harmonicas
Loops that go on forever and do absolutely nothing
The Tenor Saxophone (a la Kenny G)
Digital Reverb! Some music is just drenched in that shit!
Too much vibrato on a singer
Boomy Acoustic Guitars that never got a low cut
Overcompressed acoustic G's
Djembes

got a little carried away, sorry....

apropos of nothing · Post by **apropos of nothing** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 2:52 pm

* I hate leave-the-fuzz-on-11-all-the-way-through-the-song thing. Sooo. Tired. Of. P.A. As. Guitar. Amp. Music. Knock it off.
* Angsty lyrics by self-serious white guys (or chicks). Uhf. You live in a first-world country. What the hell's your problem?
* I'm a little bored by "amen" break. It was a pretty cool breakbeat, 25,000 tracks ago.
* Unaccompanied acoustic guitar had better be either virtuosic or a comp to the most witty, acerbic lyric in the world, or the sweetest, most swoon-worthy voice ever, or it gets ix-nayed, fast.
* I don't mind piano samples in general, but if its gonna be the featured instrument in a small ensemble setting, at least get a harp&case modelling plug-in -- the samples aren't cutting it.

'Course all of these are guidelines (as I hope all of your's are), cuz there's an exception that I love, of just about every single one.

Piezo guitar-pickups can sound good. Most people just have no idea how to do so.

timbertrout · Post by **timbertrout** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 2:56 pm

That Irish Penny Whistle thing seemingly used in every movie soundtrack (e.g. Good Will Hunting, Titanic) for tear-jerking effect or pensive mood-making or aerial footage sequences. Annoying as hell.

JGriffin · Post by **JGriffin** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 3:37 pm

Wow, a comprehensive list of all the instruments/sounds I should use on my next record! Cool!

stinkpot · Post by **stinkpot** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 3:53 pm

Very small toms.
Roto toms.
Many of the above.

PeterAuslan · Post by **PeterAuslan** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 3:57 pm

The "hyper-compressed, radio-ready, in your face" production sound.

jrsgodfrey · Post by **jrsgodfrey** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 4:28 pm

"Piezo guitar-pickups can sound good. Most people just have no idea how to do so."

I guess, but as good as ANY mic in front of the guitar? I can see situations where it might be necessary, but if you have a choice -- mic, right?

It seems that people nowadays choose the pickup.

But I am just an old fogey.

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