How did they create that sound on "Mercy Mercy Me"?
brassplyer wrote:
On Marvin Gaye's cut "Mercy Mercy Me" there's this repetitive echoing
"ponk" that sort of sounds like a sonar ping or something. Anyone know
how that sound was created? Seems I may have heard it on other songs
as well.
After fiddling for a minute or two.
Start with a Microsoft Wavetable synth woodblock
Add a shedload of vocal plate reverb in Cubase.
It won't be how it was done in the studio, but it's fairly close.
In the studio, it would have been a proper woodblock, mic'd up a couple
of feet away, then fed in to the studio's plate reverb, with a bit of EQ
to modify the sound.
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Tciao for Now!
John.
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