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Hi can any one tell me how to get the bowie snare sound without a eventide harmoniser.
any help much appreciated.
thanks
peoples10

peoples10 wrote:Hi can any one tell me how to get the bowie snare sound without a eventide harmoniser.
any help much appreciated.
thanks
peoples10

I think there's perhaps more than one snare sound used on his tunes. May be a good idea to be more specific.

grab some david bowie records and chop em or find out which keyboards where being used at the time.

send me a clip of the bowie tune you are jiving/referring to and i can figure it out for you mate.

i'll post how to do it without the use of any external plug ins. just using live!

jbodango wrote:send me a clip of the bowie tune you are jiving/referring to and i can figure it out for you mate.

i'll post how to do it without the use of any external plug ins. just using live!

Hi thanks for all comments.
The snare is at the beging of this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdxIhNOgwBE

ive read stuff in how it is done but cant mimic it.

thanks

I'd suggest maybe some repitched, short delay feedback?

Either with Grain Delay you can set the delay amount to very low ms. and the pitch just slightly lower than 0. feedback nice and high. and adjust dry/wet to taste.


Or you can have a send. with a simple delay in it (also set to very low ms, 100% wet), and the pitch effect set slightly less than zero. uhh, it almost sounds like there is a filter somewhere in there too.. make sure that the knob on that send channel is activated to feed into itself.. and turn it up verrryyy slowly as you try out your sounds on it. Feedback can be screechy as hell... watch the meter even when you aren't playing haha.

These are just ideas you could play with? You may have tried them already.

yur2die4 wrote:I'd suggest maybe some repitched, short delay feedback?

Either with Grain Delay you can set the delay amount to very low ms. and the pitch just slightly lower than 0. feedback nice and high. and adjust dry/wet to taste.


Or you can have a send. with a simple delay in it (also set to very low ms, 100% wet), and the pitch effect set slightly less than zero. uhh, it almost sounds like there is a filter somewhere in there too.. make sure that the knob on that send channel is activated to feed into itself.. and turn it up verrryyy slowly as you try out your sounds on it. Feedback can be screechy as hell... watch the meter even when you aren't playing haha.

These are just ideas you could play with? You may have tried them already.

Thanks I will give it ago.