Our Audio Craftsmen meticulously edited, balanced and programmed 4 round robins and 3 velocity layers for each bottle, before integrating them into our Kontakt interface, giving Film Composers and Music Producers a suite of unique textures to use in their tracks. Glass Bottle Percussion is a cinematic instrument built from 400+ sample recordings of antique glass bottles. It is the uniqueness of the decay that gives our zither its character.įorgotten Zither is available in two versions The zither barely survived, but it gave us an array of sounds that are very different from what you’ll get from a properly tuned and maintained instrument. There are presets for horror string hits, angelic and demonic pads, old creaks and more.
The Kontakt instruments are where the real magic happens with this instrument. The end result was a collection of about 5 Gb of edited stereo 24 bit 96k sound. We banged, scraped, bowed, ebowed, and thumped every last noise out of this one in three separate sessions. We did much more than just throw a couple of mics up and pluck – this instrument was recorded with a stethoscope mic, a lav inside the cavity, overhead xy, room mics, and more. Broken strings, creaky wood and a great resonant cavity gave us a massive collection of sounds ready to be bent and twisted. Our version had been worn beyond all repair through decades of age and neglect. Zithers of this kind are notoriously difficult to identify because they contain no distinguishing marks on the bodies themselves, and the only branding is on the paper label deteriorating inside the soundhole. This version was manufactured by Friederich Menzenhauer, the father of the zither in the US. This is a fretless German harp zither, which differs in quality significantly from concert zithers, which have several strings with fretted necks beneath them. 800+ sounds from one of the most complex and varied sounding instruments that we’ve come across in our junk shop travels.
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