Post by Cornflake on Dec 12, 2006 23:24:06 GMT -5
I'm slowly working on another CD. Last night, the engineer and I were adding in little bits of color to some songs.
Most of the songs on the project are serious. One song (which people at Idiotjam heard) concerns a cowboy who herds cats rather than cows. That song is not serious. One line deals with how he lassoes straggling cats and drags them along.
At that point we needed the sound of a cat being dragged along at the end of a rope. I tried hitting a bongo with a mallet wrapped in old flannel underwear. It was way too resonant.
The engineer--who has worked with Billy Preston, Ringo Starr, Nils Lofgren and other real musicians--became intrigued by how to aurally simulate the dragged cat. After several other attempts failed, we got a reasonable facsimile by putting a phone book inside a blanket I keep in my Jeep. Dropping that bundle on the carpet (thump) and dragging it (shhh) produced a sound that made us both wince, picturing the poor feline bouncing along in the dust.
We were both breaking up with laughter by then. He's going to see if he can come up with a sample of a cat yowling so that we can insert that following the thumps.
I'm sure this hint will make all the difference in your next recording project.
Most of the songs on the project are serious. One song (which people at Idiotjam heard) concerns a cowboy who herds cats rather than cows. That song is not serious. One line deals with how he lassoes straggling cats and drags them along.
At that point we needed the sound of a cat being dragged along at the end of a rope. I tried hitting a bongo with a mallet wrapped in old flannel underwear. It was way too resonant.
The engineer--who has worked with Billy Preston, Ringo Starr, Nils Lofgren and other real musicians--became intrigued by how to aurally simulate the dragged cat. After several other attempts failed, we got a reasonable facsimile by putting a phone book inside a blanket I keep in my Jeep. Dropping that bundle on the carpet (thump) and dragging it (shhh) produced a sound that made us both wince, picturing the poor feline bouncing along in the dust.
We were both breaking up with laughter by then. He's going to see if he can come up with a sample of a cat yowling so that we can insert that following the thumps.
I'm sure this hint will make all the difference in your next recording project.
