@@AragornAnimations Go on, what is the natural habitat of the flex-a-tone? Variations for Orchestra Op.31 or The Race of Life? The Zeitgeist knows it from GTA San Andreas or the Simpsons theme, so which one is yours?
When I started playing percussion all the way back in 4th grade, the flexatone was the coolest thing to use in our class. Too bad the second a non-band student got their hands on it they would immediately snap it.
I'm an amateur musician whose played some gigs, so I'm not exactly a guru. But things like this just blow my mind. Someone used this weird device to make something iconic
Well I learned something new, I had absolutely no idea they actually have something to make that sound. I totally thought it'd be done on a synthesizer.
@venbrou You're right never heard of a waterphone. So I just looked it up and you're right I instantly recognized it. Now I know how they make those creepy noises, thanks
why do percussion instruments always have the coolest or lamest names ever? like, someone named an instrument a drum, and that got super popular, but a flexatone didnt? there’s probably an instrument out there called the “fluxinator nutsack destroyer child rearer bomb 3000” that we’ve never heard of before
For me, I hear this a lot in a Gundam PS2 game, the memories oh god 😭 I don't remember which game it was since a sibling of mine played it, but it was basically Amuro Ray's storyline
Honestly your not far off and you can simulate "similar" effects with more conventional metal percussion instruments. But the flexatone can go for days making that clear warble. Only thing more fun to dig out the perc cabinet is a slap stick and that's because you get to pretend to beat freshmen with it...ah good times
I always enjoy random percussion instruments nobody knows the name of but immediately recognizes the sounds they make. They always look like insane and esoteric measuring tools created by Doofphenshmerf.
some of the most infamous sound effects in the world are made by insanely creative processes. like the blaster sounds in star wars was george and the crew smacking big metal rods together
Reminds me of the time a bunch of American EDM composers were trying to figure out how Netherlands group Noisia made the grimey whine noise at the end of their song Diplodocus. They were talking about using multiple modulators and audio plug-ins in trying to replicate it, and after catching wind of it a few days later Noisia came forward and said "it's literally just a power drill in front of a mic with the trigger halfway pulled in." I can't listen to Diplodocus the same way ever again. I hear the drill now.
Sound design is awesome! I watched a video a while back, where they were making broken bone/dismemberment sounds, and they would take different vegetables, like a head of cabbage, and squish and rip them apart with their hands in front of a microphone. A lot of creativity goes into making sounds!
I honestly had no idea where you were going with this, until that iconic sound was made and I recognized it immediately as something commonly used in the Yo-Kai Watch franchise! I had no idea there was a full-blown instrument for that, that's really cool to learn!
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Those flex-a-tones are essential for teachers. They get attention, and if they don't initially you can simply raise the pitch and volume till it hurts. That's right: the piercing sound legally inflicts physical pain on the class when yapping gets out of control. A teacher's dream!
@@centerflag982 A single track from a game that sold 17 million copies on the best selling game console of all time. Ain't exactly a niche thing we're talking about here.
I’d say it’s that weird instrument they use in Desert Levels. You know the one I am talking about. The instrument that sounds like it could be a guitar or percussion instrument, it sorta sounds magical with a bit of an echo to it, the smallest bit like when you pick up an item in dark souls, it’s usually the main instrument in Mario desert levels. Yeah, that instrument. Edit: the oud! It’s called the “oud”!!!
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@@CptDuck honestly kinda true, besides the (really bad) remasters that came out, nobody's been talking about vice city, gta 3, gta 4, vice city stories... it's just that there are a lot of memes surrounding San Andreas and this guy generalized it all and bunched it all up together as "older gta titles" even though most people don't care about any of them besides SA
Bruh.....as someone who also lived through the 90s, I had to scroll depressingly far down to find someone who related this to hiphop music instead of a video game..... Like, Im so get off my lawn mad right now....I think Im going to go yell at some kids how they go it too yeezy these days with their drip shark cap babies in fleek the fo sho riz cluge-nugget, and how my school was 30 miles, uphill, in both directions, in the snow now.... Anyhoo, dont break a hip my fellow elder one..... AND YOU KIDS GET OFF MY LAWN!!!
Before the instrument went all the way for its intended sound effect, it sounded like the sounds you'd hear in Super Hot whenever you hit/broke something.
