Cymbal Effects... Tools of the trade?

[DFender]

I am interested in trying to pull different sounds out of my cymbals.

How about some ideas here about different things to use.

I have seen different things used like mallets, brushes and sticks. How about something outside the norm...

Thanks, Dave

[Poopypants]

A wet fish, perhaps?

[Woody]

Cello bows are always fun.

Silverware?

You could motorize the cymbal mount and apply a metal scraper of somesort (single wind chime perhaps? sharpened a little?) in a kind of "record player" configuration. A foot switch to control speed would be interesting.

W.

[beatkeeper02]

well what you have to do is get as many different sounds with one stick (or mallet) as possible. then you do it again with somethin else, and so on...

[DFender]

I just judged a drum contest and one drummer used a cucumber

Yes, fresh veggie! It was cool until he started to take bites and spit them towards the croud. :shock:

[Woody]

I'd have sliced it on the edge of the cymbal.

THEN thrown it to the crowd.

"Saluda Cymbals--they rock, they roll, they slice, they dice!"

W.

[Schlage]

This idea isn't revolutionary by any means, but those tambourine/stick things? I can't remember what they're called, but they have about six jingles-- basically in a stick the dimensions of a tambourine, just straight. Might be a somewhat cool effect for something. I don't know what you have in mind, really.

Striking the shoulder perpendicular to the cymbal always has it's place.

Annnddd the bow is always nice for a creepy sound.

[asddrummer]

stick a chain on a ride or something and the chain will rattle on it kinda weird sound

[Woody]

This idea isn't revolutionary by any means, but those tambourine/stick things? I can't remember what they're called, but they have about six jingles-- basically in a stick the dimensions of a tambourine, just straight. Might be a somewhat cool effect for something. I don't know what you have in mind, really.

Striking the shoulder perpendicular to the cymbal always has it's place.

Annnddd the bow is always nice for a creepy sound.

Um, Jinglesticks?

No, really.

Jinglesticks.

W.

[minimalist]

Put violin rosin on the tip of your stick and then hold it like a knife while dragging the tip around the cymbal for some eerie squeels...

superball friction mallets - drag those across the cymbal....

play big cymbals with hand held small cymbals - you can both strike & scrape them....

try various cooking utensils like plastic spatulas (slapping sound), metal wire whisks (all sorts of sounds), etc.....

hold a wood block on top of a large cymbal and move it around while bowing the edge of the cymbal - wild!

try metal & wooden knitting needles....

try various diameters of piano wire....

you can put rosin on most anything and then rub/scrape it across the cymbal....

[Schlage]

Affirmative...jingle sicks.