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Title: Made a track using things in my room as instruments..
Post by: _tom_ on March 18, 2008, 11:48:09 PM

Not my idea, someone on HC did it and it sounded cool (theirs is way better), so I thought I'd give it a go. Pretty fun to do and it was more interesting than trying to come up with a good riff :lol:

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_songInfo.cfm?bandID=493678&songID=6374750

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Post by: headtheball on March 19, 2008, 09:01:07 PM

Good stuff. I'm a bit of a found-sound fanatic.

I've managed to hook up with a Bassist and a drummer of similar persuasion, too.

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Post by: Ian Price on March 19, 2008, 10:24:30 PM

Good stuff. Are you gonna tell us what you used or keep it a secret?

Next challenge - do a cover of a well known song using only sounds created by the body!

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Post by: 38thBeatle on March 19, 2008, 10:29:28 PM

Yeah come on Tom, what did you use?

Title: Made a track using things in my room as instruments..
Post by: _tom_ on March 19, 2008, 10:29:44 PM

The "drums" were hand hitting my desk for the kick, laptop catch shutting for the hi hat and the snare was me slapping my knee. For the pop sounds I just uncorked my bottle of rum :D Changed the pitches in audacity to make it a bit more tuneful. The weird synthy noise was my laptops fan ran through a flanger which I kept changing the rate of, then through an auto-pan. The chimey noise was me hitting a glass with an allen key then changed the pitch for different notes in audacity again.

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Post by: Ian Price on March 19, 2008, 10:31:24 PM

Quote from: _tom_

For the pop sounds I just uncorked my bottle of rum :D

You're not Tom Waits by any chance, are you?

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Post by: _tom_ on March 19, 2008, 10:33:10 PM

Nope, I dont even know any Tom Waits songs :o

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Post by: Jonny on March 19, 2008, 10:34:45 PM

Should have got a row of glasses filled with various amounts of water. That would be a challenge.

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Post by: Will on March 19, 2008, 10:43:52 PM

That sounded good, was nice as background noise too.
Wow, you put a lot of effort into it with all the processing, I couldn't understand much of what you said though

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Post by: Ian Price on March 19, 2008, 10:44:39 PM

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Nope, I dont even know any Tom Waits songs :o

I bet you do but don't even know it!! Some films with Tom Waits songs in:

Fight Club
Shrek 2
Jarhead
Hellboy
Twelve Monkeys

He also wrote Downtown Train only for Rod Stewart to murder it later!!

He builds instruments out of things like pots, pans and bones. Check him out although he isn't everybody's cup of tea.

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Post by: hunter on March 20, 2008, 05:21:07 AM

Cool ... Tom Oldfield :O)

So what I would do is now run them through some FX, like filters, bitcrushers, vocoders or ring modulators as well as chose some of them to give ambience or delay....

But maybe that would kill the tracks purity ...