How to sound like a car sub excurting?

Nyarlathotep · #1 04-15-2009, 02:28 PM

Yes, im looking to reproduce the sound of speaker excursion without actually excurting/killing anything. Im sure fuzz must be involved, but im not sure which.

Think really LOW crunk run at really HIGH volumes.

(PS. OH lord.... here we go again with the FX.....)

dokazaado · #2 04-15-2009, 02:29 PM

buy a synth?

bovine mind · #3 04-15-2009, 02:36 PM

buy a 215 in a hurry without checking the drivers from a friend and notice the blown cone on one driver a half hour later like i did. sounds like south central all night my practice space. it sounds EXACTLY like a cadillac with the subs dimed. sometimes it's pretty awesome how damaged it sounds.

really though, why not just find an already damaged speaker? i remember reading about JJ Burnel of The Stranglers poking holes in the cones of his 810 to get his patented overdriven tone.

cheapest idea i can think of.

HogieWan · #4 04-15-2009, 02:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Nyarlathotep

Yes, im looking to reproduce the sound of speaker excursion without actually excurting/killing anything. Im sure fuzz must be involved, but im not sure which.

Think really LOW crunk run at really HIGH volumes.

(PS. OH lord.... here we go again with the FX.....)

nothing will sound like max speaker excursion except max speaker excursion, unless someone purposely makes an effect to sound just like that

that said, tim foreman gets that sort of sound on "The Blues" (off the "Nothing is Sound" album) and I've wondered if that is what it is or if there is some effect/overdrive getting that percussive attack

bovine mind · #5 04-15-2009, 02:49 PM

also, maybe...

cheap bass synth pedal - digitech bass synth or whatever + EQ pedal with bass/low mids boosted + play chords. would sound like turd. turd is wanted here.

Nyarlathotep · #6 04-15-2009, 02:55 PM

Im surprised at the synth suggestions. I had a BSW and I never got anywhere close to a sub-excursion sound from it.

What I really figured would be suggested would be a "farty" type of fuzz....

Interesting

Not really into getting broken drivers and the like. Looking for more of a direct to board type "solution".

JimmyM · #7 04-15-2009, 03:02 PM

In that case, just run it to the board and let the sub(s) take care of it.

fightthepower · #8 04-15-2009, 03:33 PM

well I dont have much to base this on, but I know there's a pedal out there called the Torns Peaker or Torn Speaker, maybe a Devi Ever pedal..

The other idea would be an OC-2 into a lowpass (fx25 will work) and give the OC2 a very hot signal, so that it farts on a relatively hard attack. My pbass does this to my OC2 and at first I wasn't sure if it was my speaker farting or the pedal- It's the pedal.

Chronicle · #9 04-15-2009, 05:39 PM

When I was playing with my Devi Ever BIT at work, a co-worker thought i was playing through a blown speaker

thobbinghotrod · #10 04-15-2009, 05:50 PM

Isn't there some processing equipement called the 808 or something... can't remember but I think it makes that fluffy sound.

Also an open back cab and big speakers, 18's.

RCCollins · #11 04-15-2009, 06:12 PM

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Originally Posted by thobbinghotrod

Isn't there some processing equipement called the 808 or something... can't remember but I think it makes that fluffy sound.

Also an open back cab and big speakers, 18's.

you mean the Roland TR-808 drum machine? it had a bass drum sound, but it doesn't make "that" sound without a sweet rig!

thobbinghotrod · #12 04-15-2009, 06:17 PM

I'm probably not remembering right, it was many years ago that I read about studios using effects while recording rap albums. They used something similar to a sonic maximizer but it blurred the sound a bit.

RickenBoogie · #13 04-15-2009, 06:18 PM

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Originally Posted by fightthepower

well I dont have much to base this on, but I know there's a pedal out there called the Torns Peaker or Torn Speaker, maybe a Devi Ever pedal.

Yes, Torns Peaker, or whatever. That's exactly what is supposedly does. Just what the OP ordered. And yes, I think it's a Devi Ever product. PedalsPlus Effects Warehouse had 'em.

sonic assassin · #14 04-15-2009, 07:53 PM

you can always get a cheap 808 kick sample and trigger it into a cheap 1x15 combo amp that is cranked.

i sure do loves me some bass drops

bring on the hardcore.

PunkRocker33133 · #15 04-15-2009, 08:55 PM

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Originally Posted by sonic assassin

you can always get a cheap 808 kick sample and trigger it into a cheap 1x15 combo amp that is cranked.

i sure do loves me some bass drops

bring on the hardcore.

Bass drops are great! Every song, every breakdown!

sonic assassin · #16 04-15-2009, 09:30 PM

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Originally Posted by PunkRocker33133

Bass drops are great! Every song, every breakdown!

its the official noise of the concept "**** **** up"

Nyarlathotep · #17 04-16-2009, 11:09 AM

Will look into the "Torns Peaker"

This it?: http://www.moogaudio.com/product_inf...oducts_id=1874

It looks like it, based on what the devi ever one looks like: http://www.pedalspluseffectswarehous...f13-trnspk.htm

Nyarlathotep · #18 04-17-2009, 12:13 AM

Bump. Seriously want to make sure the one on moog audio is one, before I consider shelling out 200+$$ for one.....

matt davies · #19 04-17-2009, 12:30 AM

As far as I know Oohlala make several of Devi's more popular designs under license. The Torn's Peaker is one of them; just check the identical specs and description.

Matt.

theunknowndude · #20 04-17-2009, 06:50 AM

I THINK there are pre devi (effector 13?) and ooh la la manufacturing torns speakers plus they always seem to use different graphic runs (alot of devi ever pedals have different graphic runs) tis cool... but yeah see if you can get sound samples first to make sure tis what you want!