I know part of it's got to do with reverb but, what else is used to get that sound? There was a record late came out in the late `60's, early `70's that Lloyd Thaxton played on his show and he pretended he was performing that sound by dripping water into various glass bowls of water. I was sure it had something to do with the movie, "Airport" but, I just checked the theme and the love theme and neither one has that sound! I've heard the sound in other records of that era but, can't recall what they are.
Guitar geeks, how do you make the guitar sound like dripping water?
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I wonder if a talk box could be manipulated in a way to sound like water dripping by popping one's tongue as if trying to make a sound like popping a cork on a bottle.
If you happen to recall any tracks that you can link to, shoot them to me and I'll give them a listen.
I'm more of an acoustic guy, not really knowledgeable on gimmicks, but I am interested in figuring out stuff like that.
I'll have to give my Columbo's a look because, I'm pretty sure it was used one one of the first few episodes in the series. Very probably the first two!
I'll take a look at them myself, although I can't recall those types of sounds in them.
But you my friend have a knack for these things.
I guess so. I think one of them,, and I'm sure the first Planet of The Apes, uses a sound in the music on guitar that sounds like one of those gourd things that you scratch with a stick. It's like a miniature washboard cut into the side of a dried gourd. I think the water sound I'm looking for is made almost the same way.
I remember this song on Lloyd's show being a very popular instrumental hit when it came out.
I know the gourd thing you're talking about.
I think they're called guiros.
I could see that sound being produced with one of them by a skilled performer.
I don't recall Lloyd Thaxton at all.
He must not have aired in my town.
I've heard that sound, but I can't recall where.
I'm really curious now.
I've never owned one so, I had no idea what they were called.
As far as I know, he was based in Calif. but we got him here in the east.. He looked like a cross between Eddie Munster and a young George Carlin. www.youtube.com/watch
I wish I could recall where I heard it! I thought I pegged it down and looked up both singles that I have on that label and neither one of them use it. If I could just recall the movie it was from... Maybe I should start taking drugs so I'd have an excuse for being this way!!
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I'm watching the early Columbo episodes now.
They used a ton of eerie sound effects in them, but I haven't heard the water drops yet, unless they're too subliminal for me to have consciously heard them.
I know that happens to me sometimes when listening to TV.
I'm watching the second one, Ransom for a Dead Man, first.
I looked up Lloyd Thaxton. I'm sure I've never heard of him, and I was born in 1958.
Eddie Munster ad George Carlin nails his looks.
I founded it!! https://youtu.be/kHAw1NevuyI
I checked the original and that wasn't it then I found this version in `70 and found that sound! It's not the same one Lloyd was doing on his show but this DOES start out with that sound!! The one Lloyd did had that as the main instrument and it played all the way through the song. Sadly, the sound I'm talking about it only in the first 42 seconds of the song.
It sounds part reverb or vibrato, part wah-wah and part one or two other things.
That's not quite the sound I was thinking of, but if that's the one you're trying to decipher, that's the one you're trying to decipher.
You can now report me to the department of redundancy department.
After listening to it numerous times, it sounds like a synth with a number of aftereffects that evolve in their characteristics throughout the 42 seconds.
I really don't know, though.
Consider yourself reported!
Yes, that IS what I'm trying do decipher and even figure out!! So, now, I just have to find out what I wanna find out but, how can I find out what I wanna find out if you won't find out what I wanna find out?
Well, from the various places I've heard it used, I'd say it's a guitar.
I just now found another example!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSjMsGvuUM0
I think they might've used it in a couple of their other records, too!
I would wanna try some combination of echo / digital delay, and reverb... might need to fiddle with the attack too.
I just posted a song above that does it. It's only in the first :42.
Try this one, too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSjMsGvuUM0
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