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Arcana
03-06-2010, 03:28 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4UPJv08c1k#t=0m37s

In that clip, behind the drums, there's a crescendo of some kind, arranged from what sounds to be strings and brass.

I've heard it in various pieces, including in mixes on this site.

What is this sound called, and are there samples (or good advice about the techniques to recreate this sound) of it?
zircon
03-06-2010, 04:36 AM
I haven't heard that sound before... or at least, if I have, I don't remember hearing it. It actually sounds like some kind of prepared instrument or metal rather than a string or brass section.
Hemophiliac
03-06-2010, 07:30 AM
the metal release on the end is from reverb on the metal percussion methinks...

i think this is like one of those air raid sirens.
Emperor Charlemagne
03-06-2010, 07:33 AM
Sounds like a glissando to me; just not with the classical string get-up.
Arcana
03-06-2010, 10:32 PM
Best example from this site is probably on this song:

http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01344/

"Chasing the Phoenix" by GrayLightning.

You hear the sound first at 1:56. It's a slightly slower version of the one in the Battlestar Galactica opening. Also, at the very end of that song, you'll hear the same crescendo from 5:11-5:19, drastically slowed down (and also with no adjustment for pitch).

Any more suggestions for re-creating it?
GarretGraves
03-07-2010, 06:30 AM
I always thought it was the string section.

to me it definately sounds like a string instrument.
Meteo Xavier
03-07-2010, 07:23 PM
It sounds like a processed opera-style vox to me.
zircon
03-07-2010, 07:39 PM
Best example from this site is probably on this song:

http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01344/

"Chasing the Phoenix" by GrayLightning.

You hear the sound first at 1:56. It's a slightly slower version of the one in the Battlestar Galactica opening. Also, at the very end of that song, you'll hear the same crescendo from 5:11-5:19, drastically slowed down (and also with no adjustment for pitch).

Any more suggestions for re-creating it?

Both 1:56 and 2:03 in Gray's song are a brass swell. 5:11 is not the same crescendo, it's a choir ascending in pitch and intensity. The BSG opening sounds like some kind of prepared percussion or metal, as I said.
Arcana
03-08-2010, 06:05 PM
Both 1:56 and 2:03 in Gray's song are a brass swell. 5:11 is not the same crescendo, it's a choir ascending in pitch and intensity. The BSG opening sounds like some kind of prepared percussion or metal, as I said.

This is why you get paid the bucks for sound design and sample packs and I don't. Thanks guys, I'll get to working on it.
Cyril the Wolf
03-08-2010, 06:57 PM
it sounds like glissing brass to me.
Hemophiliac
03-08-2010, 09:09 PM
Both 1:56 and 2:03 in Gray's song are a brass swell. 5:11 is not the same crescendo, it's a choir ascending in pitch and intensity.

the brass also have a rip on the end as well.
PrototypeRaptor
03-09-2010, 01:55 AM
it's a heavily reverbed french horn rip doubled with the violin IIs, more than likely.

There's also a bowed percussion instrument somewhere in there, probably a waterphone? maybe a xyla

More than likely, though, it's just a sample found on a library - it's probably Symphobia.

god do I love that thing


edit: yeah, definitely possible that it's symphobia: http://www.mediafire.com/?tcgdmz2wnqk

quick test just throwing some samples through a hall preset
Arcana
03-09-2010, 04:08 AM
Man I'd feel bad taking that MP3 and using it in my songs if it's from a sample library.