What percussion instrument or sound is this?

[juno987654321]

Please help identify the percussion-like metallic sound/instrument you can hear here:

https://sndup.net/9whc

Thanks!

[BertKoor]

It's a short hardly identifyable sample. Perhaps contains a mix of all sorts of instruments. Could come from a record.

[vurt]

cowbell.

[juno987654321]

It's hard to identify, truely, but I'm skeptical about the cowbell vurt.
I found some instruments that may be good candidates for it but I'm not a drummer so I don't know for sure which one might come closest here:
- could it be a kind of cymbal crash?
- a tambourine - hit in a certain way?
- or maybe half open high hats of a certain size? (maybe rather small to medium sized ?)

[jancivil]

I heard nothing that sounded percussive or particularly clangorous. or at all distinct

[juno987654321]

I heard nothing that sounded percussive or particularly clangorous. or at all distinct

So then the question is what kind of instrument did you hear?
The percussive element is most prominent in the first loop,
though the other loops may have less of the element mixed into it.
(I hope I'm not starting to imagine things, however...)

OK, here's another sample in which you can hear the percussive sound in all its wider context. But then you'd have to really focus your mind and abstract from all the stuff (pad sounds, vocals in the end...) around it. Otherwise you won't hear anything percussive or thelike here as well:

https://sndup.net/2npz

(The sample further above is from the same source, but just more focussed and isolated towards the sound I'm trying to get.)

[yellowmix]

All the sounds seem synthesized and not really percussive. There's synth stabs which I suppose could be considered "percussive". In the first file it sounds like there's a higher-pitched synth that is pitching down with the stab. It could be sampled and pitched down together as the rate seems to slow down as well.

It's a fairly generic synth stab TBH. If you really wanted to use it the easiest thing to do would be to throw it into a sampler.

[juno987654321]

There's synth stabs which I suppose could be considered "percussive". In the first file it sounds like there's a higher-pitched synth that is pitching down

Yes, this one. I'd like to recreate it but I need a starting point, so I need to identify what kind of percussive instrument it is that should be recreated on a synth here. If it's so "standard" then tell me what it is and how I could proceed. I don't think this one is easy at all.

[yellowmix]

It's literally high-passed white noise with an amplitude decay envelope.

[jancivil]

I heard nothing that sounded percussive or particularly clangorous. or at all distinct

So then the question is what kind of instrument did you hear?
The percussive element is most prominent in the first loop,
though the other loops may have less of the element mixed into it.
(I hope I'm not starting to imagine things, however...)

TBH I didn't get a sense of any *instrument*, it's just a block of sound (like way too many synths stacked), quite indistinct. Not having a go at you but you may be imagining things a bit.

[jancivil]

The second one has a bit of metallic edge, but as an instrument specifically I think metallic edgy thing pretty much covers it. Any number of things, a hihat distorted, to a jingle bells, to a tambourine without a lot of body... you aren't going to have anybody magically extrapolate a distinct instrument out of that kind of thing, it's a bunch of sounds all jumbled together taking up the exact same space at the same time. Any assessment of 'what' is a guess, so useful arrangement type of information isn't likely to come from this.

[juno987654321]

I think it's a metallic edgy noisy thing of some kind. Actually a real chaotic sound with all things jumbled up. And hence I like it very much! Thank you! You just made me appreciate that sound even more.

[jancivil]