Creating Everyday Sounds

[Aloderdrg]

This might go hand in hand with the physical effects thread, but I believe it can stand on its own. Has anyone ever tried emulating everyday sounds through your bass (motorcycle, animal sounds, etc.? Whether dry or with effects? I always enjoy when people use their instruments to create familiar sounds that you wouldn't really expect.

[OilcanRacer]

just thunder and atomic explosions with my sub woofer cab

[Aged_Clayman]

I can do a low bell sound (just hit the back of the neck with your fist). Can`t remember anything else at the moment.
On a side note, I don`t want to live in a place, where

thunder and atomic explosions

are considered

Everyday Sounds

[Burlington]

I can make some engine sounds on my DD-7.

[cheapbasslovin]

I got a good submarine PING from tapping a screw on a pole piece through my HOG and a Zoom G2.1u delay and reverb. Not an everyday sound but cool and easily identifiable.

Decent engine ramping with a fretless into some distortion (cant remember which sounded best).

[hallobros]

The sound of the sea washing up on the shore, when my battery died on my peavey cirrus.

[CaptainWampum]

A friend of mine has one of those mini Danelectro Hodad amps and if you push it too hard or it starts to lose battery it just sounds just like an ambulance siren.

[Mudfuzz]

Click on The damned gods in my sig. over 85% or what you will hear is bass guitar > delay > OD and then layered and with more delay and some panning.

[Armbruster]

Originally Posted by hallobros

The sound of the sea washing up on the shore, when my battery died on my peavey cirrus.

Hahahah, beat me to it.

[playerunk]

to me a flanger with some distortion always sounded like a jet engine taking off

[linear]

It's easy to get a rather convincing helicopter out of my synth pedal. Might be useful if you're doing a cover of The End

[Vic Winters]

Tap the strings with some dirt and short delay for helicopter. Add pitch shifter for engine sounds.

[dannybuoy]

With the Supercollider Beast, all switches engaged, gain at minimum and tweaking the Osc2 knob I can get a sound resembling a hungry baby llama missing it's mother.

[ryansalmond]

The THX sound that is heard at the beginning of movies= using an EHX HOG, set in freeze gliss mode, with an expression pedal at about 2 thirds of the way down, quickly play a note in the 2nd octave and then in the lower octave, slowly working your way back up to the second octave chromatically with constant plucking. Bell sounds = using a frequency analyzer, lightly pluck one note and its octave simultaneously. For bonus marks, play it in several octaves by using an ehx hog or pog, and then add reverb.

[theunknowndude]

bells chimes and trumpets are all part and parcel of the boss PD-3 sound,...

have created some cool engine sounds with fretless and the guyatone TZ-2

[matt_bass]

Flanger + volume pot = light saber... Hilarious....