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lynton samuel 
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 Topic: YYZ, glass breaking?
Posted: August 11 2005 at 05:31 |
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You all know what sound I'm talking about, but I wonder if anyone knows how they made it? Is it a glass breaking? I friend of mine insisted it was just some a cymbal trick, but I insisted: NO IT'S A GLASS BREAKING!!!
Anyone..?
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Posted: August 11 2005 at 05:38 |
I think it's pretty clear....your friend has a hearing problem 
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Blacksword
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Posted: August 11 2005 at 05:39 |
I can hear glass breaking, I am unaware of any metal cymbal that sounds exactly like breaking glass..
I would suggest that in those days (1981) where digi sampling was in its infancy, the Rush boys simply broke some glass and recorded it live.
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spectral
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Posted: August 11 2005 at 05:44 |
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peart brings along 200 glasses of wine and smashing them on stage each night!
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Intruder
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Posted: August 11 2005 at 05:46 |
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Never really cared....a bass/guitar/drum frontal attack is certain to follow....it is Rush after all.
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I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there.....
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Infinity
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Posted: August 11 2005 at 05:47 |
a cymbal that breaks after the first time you use it? - That's a pretty expensive hobby!
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spectral
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Posted: August 11 2005 at 05:48 |
 Infinity wrote:
a cymbal that breaks after the first time you use it? - That's a pretty expensive hobby!
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"...misty halos made visible by the spectral illumination of moonshine."
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Blacksword
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Posted: August 11 2005 at 05:50 |
spectral wrote:
Infinity wrote:
a cymbal that breaks after the first time you use it? - That's a pretty expensive hobby!
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It's the sort of thing ELP would have had on stage. A cut crystal glass cymbal. 'Not for the sake of being flash' as Carl Palmer would say 'We felt it was an integral part of the show, and done with utmost taste'
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Flip_Stone
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Posted: August 11 2005 at 13:14 |
Uh...is the question that hard??
The sound was made from a special percussion "instrument" that Peart used back in the Moving Pictures days (and has stopped using?) It's made out of the same metallic alloys as cymbals. I remember seeing a picture of it (inside the record jacket??...We're going back many years, and the brain cells are rather dusty). I think it was shaped like a symbol, possibly the Zildian symbol. He may have stopped using Zildian products at some point, like he stopped using Slingerland drums.
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WillieThePimp
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Posted: August 11 2005 at 20:03 |
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glass cymbals, sounds very metro!
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alan_pfeifer
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Posted: August 11 2005 at 20:48 |
Flip_Stone wrote:
Uh...is the question that hard??
The sound was made from a special percussion "instrument" that Peart used back in the Moving Pictures days (and has stopped using?) It's made out of the same metallic alloys as cymbals. I remember seeing a picture of it (inside the record jacket??...We're going back many years, and the brain cells are rather dusty). I think it was shaped like a symbol, possibly the Zildian symbol. He may have stopped using Zildian products at some point, like he stopped using Slingerland drums.
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Yeah, he uses Sabians now. sound pretty nice too.
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Arsillus
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Posted: August 11 2005 at 21:31 |
I heard it was a 4x12 piece of wood that took a while for Neil to master.
Slamming it down on something, I believe.
I read it somewhere....
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Wormboy
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Posted: August 11 2005 at 22:26 |
Blacksword wrote:
I can hear glass breaking, I am unaware of any metal cymbal that sounds exactly like breaking glass..
I would suggest that in those days (1981) where digi sampling was in
its infancy, the Rush boys simply broke some glass and recorded it live. |
Bingo--simple studio sampling. Straightforward even in 1981
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YYZ, glass breaking?