Glasses…
Today i started tuning glasses by filling them with water VODKA. I now experiment with playing techniques and hope to find a kind of sound not to be found in any existing sample library…
here are the “singing glasses”… its only layers of recordings of those glasses and one synth sound (from second 55 on)… no sampling involved for now…
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17. September 2008 at 17:53
good luck
17. September 2008 at 18:09
in terms of a rock’n roll aspect and pr you should’ve written that you filled them with vodka…
17. September 2008 at 18:10
hehe, you can try to do something like Robert Tiso! search it in youtube!
17. September 2008 at 18:54
Good luck with new ideas!
17. September 2008 at 22:20
go on, Rolf!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phqymc8anO0
18. September 2008 at 00:47
well, be careful and don’t knock over the glasses and spill the water over your equipment
18. September 2008 at 03:17
Rolf you are crazy bro :D, I just joke
, U are unique artist, and these Glasses not surprise me at all :D, record some samples and show us 
18. September 2008 at 12:23
here we go.
19. September 2008 at 22:17
First you fill your glasses with water, then with vodka. Next you start to fill your throat with vodka. Then you find out, that it doesn’t tune well, so you fill it up a little bit more. Sounds well, but it doesn’t “cut through”, so you introduce a compressor - changing the threshold from 40% to 60%. Is that the spirit of the sound?
21. September 2008 at 21:45
Everyone knows rum sounds much better– as it tastes better
Very interested in the result!
22. September 2008 at 19:04
very nice one!
22. September 2008 at 19:26
Nice idea! I like this kind of things, I remember a track on the “Killer Cuts” album from “Killer Instinct (Super NES, 1994)” called “Full-Bore” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wTanZG28xg), where you can find something like a “sword sliding” synth sound. And lots of metal drums. It sounds fine!!!
22. September 2008 at 23:51
Actually the new example of music didn’t surprised me too much. I hope that your album will be released this year!
23. September 2008 at 00:11
I’m impressed! Sounds great! Reminds me a little bit of the “Mr. Brooks” soundtrack.
25. September 2008 at 17:00
gives me shivers. sounds very promising! really cool idea as well!
however, the sounds that sound like you’re hitting the glass with something, sound a bit dull (”dumpf”), a bit more echo/vibration would be nice I think.
28. September 2008 at 17:38
cool idea, nice melody and good recording.
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(ich quäl mir einen ab um meine stimme vernünftig und verständlich aufzunehmen, und du nimmst mal eben deine gläser in guter quali auf… das ist unfair
29. September 2008 at 20:33
very very nice!!!! Is this the 414 akg that u recorded it with?
30. September 2008 at 13:59
i recorded it with an A/B stereo setup with TWO DIFFERENT big condenser mics. one being the 414 and one a cheap “t-bone” t1100 through the thermionic rooster with added highs, slightly differnt locuts L/R and a touch of saturation…
01. October 2008 at 09:30
wow…cool. Well done! Thanks for the info!
14. October 2008 at 19:50
For the people how are intereseted in music like this check Matthew Herberts plat du jour: http://www.platdujour.co.uk/
05. March 2009 at 11:42
Not bad. What a kind of making melodies . cool. Is there water in or corn ??? Or still vodka ??