Sounds I never want to hear on a record again, thank you very much...

[Alex_UK]

Just listening to this week's Album Club choice (Roger Waters - Amused to Death) and it reminded me I meant to start this thread months ago but have never got around to it...

So - what are those "special effects" that would have been innovative at some point in time, but are now done to death and cringe-worthy - what are the heinous crimes that should never be used again? Here's a few...


Twittering bloody birds - where's the shotgun?
Fake vinyl crackle - STOP IT!
Radios being tuned or TV Stations changed - just buy a DAB, will you! ;-)

I've got loads more, but I'll give the rest of you a chance! ;)

ATB,

Mr. Grumpy.

[Stratmangler]

Syndrums,as used by Rose Royce in "Love Don't Live Here Anymore".
Booboo, boobooboo, booboo, booooommmmmmm!!!!

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Anita Ward's "Ring My Bell" has even more indiscriminate use of the Syndrum :eek:

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[Audio Al]

10 Years :eek:

O hang on not that sort of record :lol:

[Barry]

Any use of a 'vocoder' or 'voice box'!

[John]

Slap bass Sorry never liked slap bass just makes me want to slap the bass player lol

[Barry]

Slap bass Sorry never liked slap bass just makes me want to slap the bass player lol

I like Stanley Clarke - he plays 'slap bass'.

[Tim]

Fake vinyl crackle - STOP IT!


+1

and Autotune drives me nuts

[DSJR]

+1 for AUTOTUNE...

[John]

Stanley a great player that can play any style but it still sounds like a f-rt when plays slap bass to me

[synsei]

There's no right or wrong way to play music, unless it is out of tune and has no rhythm of course, which brings us back to Roger Waters... :eyebrows:

[John]

Agree but we all have our tastes
I often listen to John Zorn can be really out there and sometimes more noise than music but times when he creates music of real beauty

[Rare Bird]

Drum machines

:sofa:

[The Grand Wazoo]

Aeroplanes, helicopters and sports cars.

[Joe]

Sting.

[Marco]

The sound graphic equalisers impart onto recorded music... :eek: :eyebrows:

;)

Marco.

[Marco]

Sting.

Sting doing a cover of a Celine Dion song in a Geordie accent.

Marco.

[Rare Bird]

The sound graphic equalisers impart onto recorded music... :eek: :eyebrows:



:lol:

[synsei]

Sting doing a cover of a Celine Dion song in a Geordie accent.

Marco.

...whilst banging a tin bath :D

[Rare Bird]

Syndrums,as used by Rose Royce in "Love Don't Live Here Anymore".


It was a Roger Linn Drum machine wasnt it?

[Stratmangler]

It was a Roger Linn Drum machine wasnt it?

It might have been.
There was also a company called Syndrum, that made the awful devices too, so it could have been one of them.