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johnnyfeelgood · Post by **johnnyfeelgood** » Fri Mar 16, 2018 4:30 pm

In Timbaland's SexyBack (the one with Justin Timberlake) and in Lady Gaga's bad romance, there's this high pitched drum...

Is it a tuned Tom?

It's a sound that's in a lot of Timbaland songs and in Bad Romance...

I'm not sure what it is... sounds a bit computer-y...

Anyone know what I'm talking about???

I've been trying to find a sample that sounds like this for a LONG time...

I want to use a sample that sounds close if not exactly the same. I think it might be a MPC3000 sound or something else maybe?!?

johnnyfeelgood · Post by **johnnyfeelgood** » Fri Mar 16, 2018 4:32 pm

It might be from an Ensoniq ASR10.

Zexila · Post by **Zexila** » Fri Mar 16, 2018 5:05 pm

Sounds more like hi pitched conga than tom, you can easily get this sound with something like Klopfgeist from Logic and probably anything similar to it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVrsujKunYg

johnnyfeelgood · Post by **johnnyfeelgood** » Fri Mar 16, 2018 5:10 pm

OK, ... so I use FL and a PC... what samples/VST can I get to do this?

Also, in Bad Romance, it's almost like a bleep from a click track that's pitched... any sound/sample similar to this would be great...

Really, I'd like a sample I can just alter up or down pitch wise...

Thanks for your help so far Zexila.... any more help would be appreciated...

Zexila · Post by **Zexila** » Fri Mar 16, 2018 5:17 pm

There must be some drum/perc synth preset you can tweak and play chromatically, take a look, there's always some tom sound preset to be found in plenty of factory synth banks.

Try 808 conga.

https://www.gearslutz.com/board/electro ... -free.html

johnnyfeelgood · Post by **johnnyfeelgood** » Fri Mar 16, 2018 6:16 pm

Thanks for your help...

although I'm still not sure this is the sound I'm looking for...

have you heard the high pitched drum that's in both Bad Romance and SexyBack?

Zexila · Post by **Zexila** » Fri Mar 16, 2018 6:48 pm

johnnyfeelgood wrote:have you heard the high pitched drum that's in both Bad Romance and SexyBack?

Heard in SexyBack more clearly, it's not that busy thing like Bad Romance, but it's similar sound, more processed in Bad Romance tho, so take that into account too when comparing.

What did you tried so far?

johnnyfeelgood · Post by **johnnyfeelgood** » Fri Mar 16, 2018 11:33 pm

Zexila wrote:
johnnyfeelgood wrote:have you heard the high pitched drum that's in both Bad Romance and SexyBack?
Heard in SexyBack more clearly, it's not that busy thing like Bad Romance, but it's similar sound, more processed in Bad Romance tho, so take that into account too when comparing.

What did you tried so far?

I tried the C4 conga, pitched at D5 and D6 in a pattern. And it almost sounds right...

and compared to the lady gaga song bad romance, the instrument comes in at about 38 seconds in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrO4YZeyl0I

and the lady gaga instrument sounds a lot sharper... like more intense.... mine sounds duller...

it sounds a little bit like the sexyback drum, which is the first drum to come into the song...

johnnyfeelgood · Post by **johnnyfeelgood** » Fri Mar 16, 2018 11:36 pm

Oh shit! Didn't mean to post the whole video in the reply...

Well, it still doesn't sound quite the same....

Zexila · Post by **Zexila** » Sat Mar 17, 2018 11:27 am

You will never get the same thing that easily, settle with close enough or learn how get that sound from scratch using some capable synth or drum machine.

Quite like this one, hope for Timbo's comeback, he actually makes music worth listening.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JnGBs88sL0

johnnyfeelgood · Post by **johnnyfeelgood** » Sat Mar 17, 2018 4:24 pm

Zexila wrote:You will never get the same thing that easily, settle with close enough or learn how get that sound from scratch using some capable synth or drum machine.

Quite like this one, hope for Timbo's comeback, he actually makes music worth listening.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JnGBs88sL0

Uh, interestingly, that song doesn't have the instrument I'm thinking of...

johnnyfeelgood · Post by **johnnyfeelgood** » Sat Mar 17, 2018 4:29 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gOHvDP_vCs

At like 18 seconds, there's a KICK

there's a synth sound

and there's this OTHER drum... maybe a conga sample... that I hear. I just want a sample like that...

Is that so hard to ask for? In a world of problems and complicatons... I just want a simple sample that is exactly the same as a Timbaland/Lady Gaga song... WHY!?

Zexila · Post by **Zexila** » Sat Mar 17, 2018 4:53 pm

Gave you more than you deserve already, you are on your own, have fun.

AnX · Post by **AnX** » Sat Mar 17, 2018 6:02 pm

Sounds like a synthetic perc hit from an old Roland unit

deastman · Post by **deastman** » Sat Mar 17, 2018 6:23 pm

The Bad Romance sound is claves. The Sexyback... who knows? Could be any kind of high pitched percussion hit, or even synthesized. Maybe try sampling yourself hitting some hard plastic?

In "SexyBack" and "Bad Romance," there's this high pitched drum. What is it?