What is this sound effect called?

[Icehaven]

Mettallic sounding, slightly like a squeaky gate but not really, used to emphasise the moment you realise there's potentially something weird or mysterious going on, like someone walking up the path of a spooky looking house or the instant the look on someone's face changes from normal to creepy etc. Was used in LOG a lot if that's any help. I'll try and find a youtube clip with it but I bet someone identifies it before I do.

[Kalabi]

I reckon you might be thinking of a waterphone.

[Kalabi]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uICM6gJkeXs

Something like that?

[Icehaven]

Yeah that's it!! It's called a waterphone then, cheers.

[St_Eddie]

There's a shot of a two people walking in a zombie-free corridor in Day of the Dead which makes use of a waterphone for some inexplicable reason.

[Avril Lavigne]

Wow, this was in like every episode of The Real Ghostbusters.  I had no idea it was an actual instrument and not just a weird synth effect.

[a duncandisorderly]

Wow, this was in like every episode of The Real Ghostbusters.  I had no idea it was an actual instrument and not just a weird synth effect.

pricey too. I'll stick to using samples until I win the lottery or build one myself.

[St_Eddie]

I'll stick to using samples until I win the lottery or build one myself.

That's the dream to which we all aspire but few will achieve.

[Brundle-Fly]

I've never seen one before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpix1v2BikQ

[St_Eddie]

I've never seen one before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpix1v2BikQ

   
PHWOARR!!!

Shame it's not a woodwind instrument, otherwise I could have made an absolutely hilarious 'would' gag by writing 'wouldwind'.  Alas, it's not, so I can't, even though I just did.

[Icehaven]

This is ace; Turns out it does/can actually contain a small amount of water, which is where the name comes from, but it was also invented by someone called Richard Waters!!! Excellent.

[gib]

Very cool indeed. Anyone got any TV or film clips where it's used?

[St_Eddie]

This is ace; Turns out it does/can actually contain a small amount of water, which is where the name comes from, but it was also invented by someone called Richard Waters!!! Excellent.

Fulfilling his destiny there, like a real-life Gríma Wormtongue.

[BlodwynPig]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA2THNLR0b0

It was used to very good effect in the original Dark Water film

[Mister Six]

Well, I learned something new today, and with only four minutes to go before midnight!

[Bently Sheds]

Very cool indeed. Anyone got any TV or film clips where it's used?

I think it's occasionally used, quite sparingly, on Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares...
https://youtu.be/kQJHYFK3LTQ

[Shit Good Nose]

First experienced one about 25 years ago when I saw Evelyn Glennie live.  There's a few vids of her on YouTube as well mucking around with one, and I'm sure she played one on one of the numerous times she appeared on Blue Peter in the late 80s and early 90s.

Man what I wouldn't give for an Evelyn Glennie and Ruth Underwood percussion double team.

I said PERCUSSION double team you filthy minded cunts.

[Ferris]

I've never seen one before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpix1v2BikQ

This is amazing, thanks for posting.

I'm going to get one and pretend I live in an unaired episode of Hannibal

Edit - it's just occurred to me how the pitch bending works. It's like when I wash out that steel fruit bowl and the water swirls around. Hmmm!

[Gerald Fjord]

the three-wattled bellbird in costa rica makes two different noises, one a bit like a sci fi weapon being set off, and the other a sort of eerie, high-pitched, prolonged squeak. the effect of walking through a forest they inhabit and having their weird noises echo around you is very reminiscent of a waterphone. took me a while to work out why i kept having the pretty unusual sensation of having discovered something bad.

[BlodwynPig]

the three-wattled bellbird in costa rica makes two different noises, one a bit like a sci fi weapon being set off, and the other a sort of eerie, high-pitched, prolonged squeak. the effect of walking through a forest they inhabit and having their weird noises echo around you is very reminiscent of a waterphone. took me a while to work out why i kept having the pretty unusual sensation of having discovered something bad.

Thats great. The early morning echoes in humid arboreal forests here also have some pretty effects on the senses

[Mister Six]

This might be my favourite thread ever.

[Norton Canes]

I prefer the squealyboing reverbaphone

[Pearly-Dewdrops Drops]

Very cool indeed. Anyone got any TV or film clips where it's used?

Here's an answer, Wayne:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSG3s7Y9lP0

[notjosh]

Is this an example too?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp8DGoaDZ5k

[Brundle-Fly]

Is this an example too?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp8DGoaDZ5k

Good call. That's definitely where I first heard one.

Anybody mentioned the watery Glass Armonica? Presumably used by Lasry-Baschet for the Picturebox theme. I've seen one of these played live in a tiny chapel for an intimate Jarvis Cocker curated evening of oddness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEKlRUvk9zc

[Brundle-Fly]

I prefer the squealyboing reverbaphone

Wow! You do wonder how they make these sounds in modern horror. I always assume it's electronically created.

[chveik]

and then there's the daxophone, invented by Hans Reichel:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8dG8adbOXQ

[Phil_A]

Anybody mentioned the watery Glass Armonica? Presumably used by Lasry-Baschet for the Picturebox theme.

Non! The Lasry-Baschet sound sculptures were all original creations, you can see some footage of them being played here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awaFd6gArLg

[Ferris]

Is this a weird instrument thread? Because I love weird instruments.

How about the hydraulophone?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tgU0OZkGhGI

Only publicly available free-to-play one is in Toronto, but it's fucking miles away and a pain to get to so I've never made it up. Must do that this summer.

[a duncandisorderly]

First experienced one about 25 years ago when I saw Evelyn Glennie live.  There's a few vids of her on YouTube as well mucking around with one, and I'm sure she played one on one of the numerous times she appeared on Blue Peter in the late 80s and early 90s.

Man what I wouldn't give for an Evelyn Glennie and Ruth Underwood percussion double team.

I said PERCUSSION double team you filthy minded cunts.

I don't think there's a proper recording of glennie's brief collaboration with steve 'I used to be in genesis, but you'd never know from the documentaries' hackett at the QEH in 2002. but there's my recording of it, if you're interested:

https://soundcloud.com/duncandisorderly-1/city-in-the-sea-hackettglennie