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Started December 11th, 2013 · 8 replies · Latest reply by zimbot 10 years, 4 months ago
I was recently at the dentist getting a filling and have to say the sound of the dentists drill vibrating through your skull has to be one of the most disturbing sounds there is!
I had an idea for recreating this sound, maybe a contact mic on some kind of animal skull while using a dentists drill on the skull. Now I only have 1 of these 3 items (no prizes for guessing which one) but who knows, maybe someone out there in the big wide interworld might have all 3 and fancy doing this, I think it could have some pretty good results
You can use a sound editing program instead of recording the sound. I'm not exactly sure what it sounds like but if you have any examples I'd be sure to help out.
Maybe speed up http://freesound.org/people/mainswor/sounds/186555/ and mix it with
http://freesound.org/people/morgothFLOW/sounds/124971/
http://freesound.org/people/BettinaMasberg/sounds/194193/
and http://freesound.org/people/SlykMrByches/sounds/55234/ ... ugh...
I remember for Absynth a demo sound maybe preset called the dentist, and it simulated that sound in a musical way....
found here:
http://www.native-instruments.com/index.php?id=absynth3sounds
still makes me feel like a kid at the dentist getting work down, but without the high pitch NEEENEENEEE
also this sick sample: http://www.freesound.org/people/fonogeno/sounds/69198/
With some clean up it's got a lot of potential. I've thought of doing this too, but to what extent, who would want to listen to a song of teeth and bone drilling... it's a high pitched, non-musical, never grating, teeth clenching, anus contracting sound/feeling.
So I've given you both a musical and real sound of it.
The internal sound is very different because of psychoacoustics. Almost every sound is hard to reproduce because of this, from cello to guitar amps.
I'm just suggesting, a small grinder, like a detail one for small carvings, would work, but pitch it up to make it seem smaller.
It's mostly servos, which is half the sound, the other is the friction the servo has, and then a small amount is what it has friction on.
Most listeners cannot really determine from listening too. To know the difference from wood and bone is not that obvious. Steel would the only real noticeable one, and that's because it's higher density gives it more resonance. Usually because of the higher RPM's a steel grind gets from a wood grinder, as well as the difference in stone density. bood and bone can use just a straight up steel bit.
I have experience with steel grinding as a factory welder.
But with grinders like dental ones you just need to pitch it up, almost all servo sounds can be done from a small servo and pitched down, whether for a spaceship landing gear to iron man suit to small locks on a briefcase.
The more you pitch down the bigger it seems, it's an easy sound to work with. It's just the resistance is what we notice, which is the pitch flux. That's based on friction, and a little hand drill has a lot of variation of friction.
Really for the dental grinder it's just because it's a smaller then average servo is why it really sounds cool.
I have been considering this same concept for years, and this is all teh conclusions, research and ideas I have drawn, I hope it helps. I have consulted many experts about this, mostly because of that Absytnh demo as the inspiration to find out more, because I saw musical potential. Can't say I've ever played out on it, for the reasons I have given.
Compressed air tool, not servo.
Same idea as
http://www.freesound.org/people/Filipe%20Chagas/sounds/91910/
I threw together a quick analog box circuit (AnalogBox2, that is), and couldn't get it to sound quite right, but with some tweaking it might be possible. I uploaded an example of its output, but you'll have to wait for moderation...
http://freesound.org/people/zimbot/sounds/210792/
That one is through moderation now. But after that, I changed the circuit so that it has better sounding dips, and the grinding is modulated by the depth of the dip. So I think it sounds better. But it isn't worth the trouble to upload since none of this sounds very real to me. I might post the circuit to the ABox2 group if anyone is interested, though.
Changed my mind, and it wasn't much trouble, and it didn't take long:
http://www.freesound.org/people/zimbot/sounds/211381/