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Default How did they create that sound on "Mercy Mercy Me"?

Il 03/04/2011 14.20, brassplyer ha scritto:
On Apr 3, 7:21 am, wrote:

do you mean the one acting as "snare" drum in the pattern?



Here, that haunting, echoing "ponk" sound. I've heard it described as
sounding like a racquetball caroming off a wall. Doesn't sound at all
like a snare.


http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/3/...Mercy_pong.mp3

i said the one that "act as a snare in the pattern", not that sound like
a snare.
Listening to the song appear to me that:
1) the "sound" is doubling the snare, but sometimes disappear leaving
the snare alone (at the beginning of the brass section part), or...
2) is just the big reverb (that seems to me a well produced gated spring
reverb) that sometimes disappear (probably because the snare hits being
too weak to open the gate?).
3) is something else controlled by the snare used as key. (like a gated
ambience mic heavily compressed?)

hope it helps...