What do I use to make this sound?

[nwright]

Like the sound from the beginning of the title track of God Forbid VI:Constitution of Treason...Right as the intro is ending and the song kicks in.

Sounds like white noise or something that gradually builds up and gets louder. Metallica used it on some of their older stuff and I've heard it on other albums as well.

Hard to describe, white noise or a reverse cymbal crash is as close as I can get, but it has more thickness than a simple cymbal crash.

Anyone know what I'm talking about?

 

[JeffTD]

Do you mean The End Of The World?

Sounds to me like some kind of airplane or car sample, maybe a super heavily eq'd and reversed two-cymbal hit, but I'm not sure.

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

Yeah do you mean end of the world?

Sounds like you could get that effect (like DSS3 said) with the begining of an airplane flyby sample.

 

[nwright]

Yeah, that's the song...Right as the musical intro kick into the main riff, the noise that builds up.

I guess I don't hear a car or plane type of noise, just thick ass white noise...I'll look up some plane or car samples and see what I get.

In the past I've approximated it with reversed cymbal hits, but it never has that thickness.

 

[JeffTD]

Yeah, I know what you mean - it's like a super thick ass reverse cymbal fade in, but I think you could get close with an airplane flyby and some tweaking. Maybe even like... a Bazooka shot from some movie or something.

 

[nwright]

yeah, a canon or bazooka shot may work...Our bass player has some video footage of that stuff, maybe I could sample the audio...

Another place I've heard the sound was on that old show "A Current Affair", for you US peeps, if you remember...Whenever the logo would come on the screen, it would be rotating around from a distance and "hit" the screen. Building up to when it hit the screen, you'd kinda hear the same noise.

Kinda like a "whhhhaaaaaap" sound, lol.