YYZ, glass breaking?
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Topic: YYZ, glass breaking?
Posted By: lynton samuel
Subject: YYZ, glass breaking?
Date Posted: August 11 2005 at 05:31
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You all know what sound I'm talking about, but I wonder if anyone knows how they made it? Is it a glass breaking? I friend of mine insisted it was just some a cymbal trick, but I insisted: NO IT'S A GLASS BREAKING!!!
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Posted By: porter
Date Posted: August 11 2005 at 05:38
I think it's pretty clear....your friend has a hearing problem  ------------- "my kingdom for a horse!" (W. Shakespeare, "Richard III") |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: August 11 2005 at 05:39
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I can hear glass breaking, I am unaware of any metal cymbal that sounds exactly like breaking glass.. I would suggest that in those days (1981) where digi sampling was in its infancy, the Rush boys simply broke some glass and recorded it live. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: spectral
Date Posted: August 11 2005 at 05:44
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peart brings along 200 glasses of wine and smashing them on stage each night! ------------- "...misty halos made visible by the spectral illumination of moonshine." |
Posted By: Intruder
Date Posted: August 11 2005 at 05:46
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Never really cared....a bass/guitar/drum frontal attack is certain to follow....it is Rush after all. ------------- I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there..... |
Posted By: Infinity
Date Posted: August 11 2005 at 05:47
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a cymbal that breaks after the first time you use it? - That's a pretty expensive hobby!
------------- I can't remember what I said I lost my head. __________________________ |
Posted By: spectral
Date Posted: August 11 2005 at 05:48
------------- "...misty halos made visible by the spectral illumination of moonshine." |
Infinity wrote:
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: August 11 2005 at 05:50
It's the sort of thing ELP would have had on stage. A cut crystal glass cymbal. 'Not for the sake of being flash' as Carl Palmer would say 'We felt it was an integral part of the show, and done with utmost taste'
------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Flip_Stone
Date Posted: August 11 2005 at 13:14
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Uh...is the question that hard?? The sound was made from a special percussion "instrument" that Peart used back in the Moving Pictures days (and has stopped using?) It's made out of the same metallic alloys as cymbals. I remember seeing a picture of it (inside the record jacket??...We're going back many years, and the brain cells are rather dusty). I think it was shaped like a symbol, possibly the Zildian symbol. He may have stopped using Zildian products at some point, like he stopped using Slingerland drums.
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Posted By: WillieThePimp
Date Posted: August 11 2005 at 20:03
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glass cymbals, sounds very metro!
------------- You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. ~Oscar Levant, explaining his way out of a speeding ticket |
Posted By: alan_pfeifer
Date Posted: August 11 2005 at 20:48
Yeah, he uses Sabians now. sound pretty nice too. |
Posted By: Arsillus
Date Posted: August 11 2005 at 21:31
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I heard it was a 4x12 piece of wood that took a while for Neil to master. Slamming it down on something, I believe. I read it somewhere.... |
Posted By: Wormboy
Date Posted: August 11 2005 at 22:26
Bingo--simple studio sampling. Straightforward even in 1981 |