Vocal Slap Delay with a Cheap Garden Hose | Reverb Experimental Recording Techniques

What do you do with your garden hose? Vocal slap delay in music recording is a unique and vibrant effect that can be found in your own backyard. Literally. Engineer/producer Andy Shoemaker and singer Jennifer Hall show us how the team at Rax Trax Recording makes this happen.

[creativesoundlab]

Dude, super cool and sounds fantastic. I have not tried this yet. HoboRec has though! Great video too. Some have commented here that I have done this in a video, but I have not. This is a different effect. The trickiest part to this is getting the sound into the hose. The garden hose could be $10 but the gear it takes to play a sound into it could add up quickly if using the gear shown here. I'd imagine you could use a funnel and use a 4 or 6 inch speaker, and that way you don't have to use the Talk Box.

[hoborec]

Awesome to see more like this on Youtube. Creative recording is so much more fun than ITB mix tutorials.

[magibatalla]

Awesome singer and cool song/production!

[AdamsBrew]

I wonder if you can get interesting tonal variations using larger gauge hoses and/or metal hoses. Just noticed some stainless steel garden hoses on amazon.

[erice]

I'd have loved to hear some feedback going through this thing. Instant space weirdness. And what if the hoses were moving somehow? It could get cool really fast with the phase cancellation and whatnot.

[minecraftman]

Why does her voice in the begining sound like jan from the office

[SOUNDINTHECITY]

Sylvia Massey talked about this at NAMM 2018... pretty cool to see/hear it in use.

[hiptoalieu]

YAY, that's actually really cool!!!!

[JonNewquist]

I need to try that, just because. Thank you.

[davegustafson]

Would metal coils work also? I assume higher frequencies would transfer more easily. Interesting, keep this series going!

[ZakiWasik]

How about just inserting a regular digital delay at 100% wet right before this on a send and keeping the hose reasonably short. Would allow you to easily dial in the correct length. Although, obviously, the coloring of the sound would be less pronounced though a shorter hose. But I feel that might be desired in a lot of cases.

[thebreakfastmenu]

This video makes me realize how little I know about recording

[liabkozuo]

Check out Creative Sound Labs' films about garden hose reverbs. There are at least a few

[cedarbay]

It's important to have the performer pass a golf ball through the garden hose before recording to make sure the path is clear.

[martinomaranzana]

Bullshit to me, if you care about the sound it makes just use a shorter hose and then dial in how much delay you want by moving around the delay track... I can barely see a point in this when done live, in studio it has no real purpose to achieve that time displacement in that way because the time displacemant has no inherent sound! If you care about the timbre it gives, fine, but no point in thinking about feets of cable to achieve a particular ms value, just find the sound you like by whatever means you like and then displace the track in the DAW.

[DannyFulbright]

I read somewhere Chet Atkins did that on a few song

[chrisrcarlson]

That sounds ridiculously amazing! Thx for sharing.

[jhowellkc]

You guys should get Nicolas Collins to do some experimental sound videos.

[blubfishuwaaa]

imagine if you used a flanger or the garden hose mic

[LordStompyHarpLoonyTunes]

And to think I went and miked up my vox in my bathroom 5 feet away to get a nice slap back wash when I should have sang through a hose instead...obviously I've failed my hipster obtuse creativity test