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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?

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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

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