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The Identified sounds page is meant as a central resource for the deconstruction of popular music and film. The idea is to collect knowledge about sound bits, effects or stock sounds which were used in music or film productions and to trace them back to the original source, the instrument or recording it was produced with or sampled from.

Music

Wamdue Project - "King of My Castle" makes extensive use of Roland Super JV's Rhythm Bank "PR-B 2 RaveDrumSet":

• F4 "Tin Wave"
• C4 "2.2 Vibwave"
• A3 "Rattles"

Timbaland - "Ayo Technology" uses sounds of the polyphonic soundchip MOS Technology SID 6581, just as many more contemporary and chip-tune artists (i.e. Christal Castles). It's not sure if Timbaland used the real chip (as available through the Elektron SidStation), a VST/software emulator or a sampling CD like 8 Bit Stylez by Ueberschall. Related is the Timbaland plagiarism controversy

Timo Maas uses the Spectrasonic "Distorted Reality Vol 1." sampling CD extensively on his 2005 album Pictures. This sound library created by Eric Persen is used in a number of productions and helps create a NIN/Quake kind of atmosphere.

J.R. Rotem uses the Korg Radius "Visualizer" preset a lot (Timbaland also used it on Justin Timberlake - My Love. On Leona Lewis - better In Time, Rotem seems to have used the Korg Triton's INT-A 001 Bright Piano and INT-B 019 String Quartet.

Wyclef Jean feat. Hope - Perfect Gentleman (The Stripper Song) opens with the Korg Triton Preset INT-A 003 Legato String.

Music cliché samples

• The "Amen Break", sampled from The Instance - "Amen Brother", a six-second drum sample from the b-side of this chart-topping single from 1969. The sample was used extensively in early hiphop and sample-based music, and became the basis for drum-and-bass and jungle music Nate Harrison's 2004 video about the Amen Break

Film cliché sound effects

These sounds were used in too many productions to mention individual works.

• Wilhelm scream .ogg Wikipedia
• Tarzan yell .ogg Wikipedia
• Godzilla roar Wikipedia
• Goofy holler Wikipedia
• Castle thunder .ogg Wikipedia
• Remote keyless system beeps related wikipedia
• Heavy stone grinding
• The Universal telephone ring related article

Film sound cliché links

• Clichés at filmsound.com

Related

Music Production Manual