DefJef
THBC Moderator
Due to musical differences I've decided I can't work with myself any more.
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Post by DefJef on Aug 29, 2020 12:17:17 GMT
One thing that I find very difficult to do is get a decently realistic tambourine sound on recordings. I have a few samples that are OK but just to get into a groove and add accents and shakes that sound right is very frustrating. So why not just buy one and do it myself? Because I don't know what I'm doing. To my mind a tambourine is something from the music cupboard in primary school, not something that can cost £400+. How wrong I was! After a lot of research about the sound that my head was looking for I settled for double rows of nickel jingles on a crescent shaped rim. Sample sounds of the Rhythm Tech RTT2B sounded great on the Footes website. The comparison with brass jingles showed a much brighter, cutting sound that I felt would fit best into most of the music that I want to make. I looked at a few with heads as well but it seemed tricky to NOT hear that drum head if you didn't want to. The full round headless ones seemed a little tricky to manipulate too and the handles on many cheaper models didn't look at all ergonomically comfortable Hope this purchase works out to be a good choice. I plan to buy a few more percussion things soon: egg shakers and possibly clave sticks. Not just going Old Skool, I'm going Primary Skool!
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Post by JAC on Sept 3, 2020 13:52:25 GMT
Wow, £400 for a tambourine!
How much does a good cow bell cost?!?!
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DefJef
THBC Moderator
Due to musical differences I've decided I can't work with myself any more.
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Post by DefJef on Sept 3, 2020 14:49:22 GMT
Depends if the cow gave it up without a fight JAC. To be fair those expensive ones were hand built from godknowswhat and stretched with velum or something. Fine for an orchestra percussionist - we all know how massively well paid they are - but to be honest I didn't even like the sound of them for my purposes. The players used them more like drums and got tremendous effects out of them. Quite eye opening. I've just finished recording with mine and OH MY GOD! How did I live without this thing for so long? From now on there's going to be tambourines all over EVERYTHING! Once I'd figured out how to control the beginning and end of the playing it was so easy and great fun to do. What a relief to wipe the sampled tambourine loop and actually play one instead. Up until now I've always loved to listen to a latest mix on headphones and smacked away on my thighs or air drummed along to it. Now I just need to put a tambourine in my hands and I'm off. No wonder Mick Jagger can't help himself and even Liam Gallagher can't pretend to be detached and unimpressed!
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