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tranel · Post by **tranel** » Fri Jan 05, 2018 11:53 am

Hi,
I'm looking for samples of fret noises, slides, squeaks etc to liven up a sampled acoustic guitar. Preferably wavs or aifs, but if not I'll find a way to convert.

I tried googling but had no luck, so I'm hoping you could perhaps help?

Many thanks!

Andy

Stollmeister · Post by **Stollmeister** » Sun Jan 07, 2018 12:07 pm

Maybe it would be fairly simple to sample from records. Find music where there is a guitar with no other instruments and edit out the stuff around the sounds you want.

spigmu · Post by **spigmu** » Mon Jan 08, 2018 12:26 am

This link

https://freesound.org/search/?q=acousti ... nced=0&g=1

and when you find one you find what you're looking for, see if there's a "x more results in the same pack", and click to it.

For example, this

https://freesound.org/search/?q=acousti ... _username=

came up that way.

Good luck : )

tranel · Post by **tranel** » Thu Jan 11, 2018 12:50 am

Thanks guys!

annode · Post by **annode** » Thu Jan 11, 2018 1:42 am

If you sample from a record, the best source imo is John McLaughlin - "My Goals Beyond". Second half is solo guitar, chords and solos with the best fret sounds from his top of the line "Ovation" guitar.

spigmu · Post by **spigmu** » Thu Jan 11, 2018 9:08 pm

You know what I'd do if I needed to add some acoustic guitar squeaks/fret noise/hand noise to a too clean VI? The OP may not have a guitar at their disposal, but even if one can't play I would use any mic available and self record some. Play along with the piece, just faking, naturally, and make a non-musical hand noise, mostly transitioning from different positions, but also you can do some sounds of your wrist hitting the bridge area as it moves there, and whatever comes to mind. That way it will be as the actual guitar playing would have been and not some random, unrelated fret noise that you want to make sound like it came from that performance.

woggle · Post by **woggle** » Thu Jan 11, 2018 9:49 pm

spigmu wrote:You know what I'd do if I needed to add some acoustic guitar squeaks/fret noise/hand noise to a too clean VI? The OP may not have a guitar at their disposal, but even if one can't play I would use any mic available and self record some. Play along with the piece, just faking, naturally, and make a non-musical hand noise, mostly transitioning from different positions, but also you can do some sounds of your wrist hitting the bridge area as it moves there, and whatever comes to mind. That way it will be as the actual guitar playing would have been and not some random, unrelated fret noise that you want to make sound like it came from that performance.

that is a great idea

Samples of ac. guitar fret noises