What specific game are you referring to out of curiosity? I've only heard it on a scrabble type of game on snapchat, but I somehow doubt that is what you were referring to haha
@@AragornAnimations Go on, what is the natural habitat of the flex-a-tone? Variations for Orchestra Op.31 or The Race of Life? The Zeitgeist knows it from GTA San Andreas or the Simpsons theme, so which one is yours?
I honestly had no idea where you were going with this, until that iconic sound was made and I recognized it immediately as something commonly used in the Yo-Kai Watch franchise! I had no idea there was a full-blown instrument for that, that's really cool to learn!
Well I learned something new, I had absolutely no idea they actually have something to make that sound. I totally thought it'd be done on a synthesizer.
You would be surprised at how many sound effects are made with an obscure instrument. My favorite so far is the waterphone. You've probably never seen or heard of it, but I guaranty you'll recognize the creepy sounds it makes.
@@venbrou You're right never heard of a waterphone. So I just looked it up and you're right I instantly recognized it. Now I know how they make those creepy noises, thanks
When I started playing percussion all the way back in 4th grade, the flexatone was the coolest thing to use in our class. Too bad the second a non-band student got their hands on it they would immediately snap it.
I'm an amateur musician whose played some gigs, so I'm not exactly a guru. But things like this just blow my mind. Someone used this weird device to make something iconic
why do percussion instruments always have the coolest or lamest names ever? like, someone named an instrument a drum, and that got super popular, but a flexatone didnt? there’s probably an instrument out there called the “fluxinator nutsack destroyer child rearer bomb 3000” that we’ve never heard of before
Honestly your not far off and you can simulate "similar" effects with more conventional metal percussion instruments. But the flexatone can go for days making that clear warble. Only thing more fun to dig out the perc cabinet is a slap stick and that's because you get to pretend to beat freshmen with it...ah good times
I always enjoy random percussion instruments nobody knows the name of but immediately recognizes the sounds they make. They always look like insane and esoteric measuring tools created by Doofphenshmerf.
I guess that's how they made the dancing toaster sounds for Ghostbuster 2. You can get the same sort of effect if you put a half inch of water in a pot and tap the edge to make it ring like a bell while moving the water around. It changes the pitch and you get that same wobbly sound. I always figured that's how the made sounds like that. Very interesting. I love foley art. The artists are so creative and think in out of the box ways.
Never thought of that, but you may be right Also, the sound you're describing has been made into an instrument. It's called the waterphone and it's also used for some other eerie sounds too
some of the most infamous sound effects in the world are made by insanely creative processes. like the blaster sounds in star wars was george and the crew smacking big metal rods together
Reminds me of the time a bunch of American EDM composers were trying to figure out how Netherlands group Noisia made the grimey whine noise at the end of their song Diplodocus. They were talking about using multiple modulators and audio plug-ins in trying to replicate it, and after catching wind of it a few days later Noisia came forward and said "it's literally just a power drill in front of a mic with the trigger halfway pulled in." I can't listen to Diplodocus the same way ever again. I hear the drill now.
Sound design is awesome! I watched a video a while back, where they were making broken bone/dismemberment sounds, and they would take different vegetables, like a head of cabbage, and squish and rip them apart with their hands in front of a microphone. A lot of creativity goes into making sounds!
Those flex-a-tones are essential for teachers. They get attention, and if they don't initially you can simply raise the pitch and volume till it hurts. That's right: the piercing sound legally inflicts physical pain on the class when yapping gets out of control. A teacher's dream!
Chill out, what ya yellin' for? Lay back, it's all been done before. And if you could only let it be, you will see that I am the funniest YouT*ber of all time. Admit it, my dear follow*r keus
Ive always wondered how they get that sound in funky tracks. ngl when I saw the instrument I was like "i don't recognize this at all" but then you started playing it Great video, great game, great memories
@@centerflag982 A single track from a game that sold 17 million copies on the best selling game console of all time. Ain't exactly a niche thing we're talking about here.
I’d say it’s that weird instrument they use in Desert Levels. You know the one I am talking about. The instrument that sounds like it could be a guitar or percussion instrument, it sorta sounds magical with a bit of an echo to it, the smallest bit like when you pick up an item in dark souls, it’s usually the main instrument in Mario desert levels. Yeah, that instrument. Edit: the oud! It’s called the “oud”!!!
@@CoffeeFurret OMG YES! FUCKING YES! GOD DAMMIT YOU DID IT! YEARS OF ENDLESS GOOGLE SEARCHING, ALL DONE AND NO LONGER NECESSARY! THE MISSIONS, THE NIGHTMARES, THEY’RE FINALLY OVER! THANK YOU OH GOD THANK YOU
@@CptDuck honestly kinda true, besides the (really bad) remasters that came out, nobody's been talking about vice city, gta 3, gta 4, vice city stories... it's just that there are a lot of memes surrounding San Andreas and this guy generalized it all and bunched it all up together as "older gta titles" even though most people don't care about any of them besides SA
Bruh.....as someone who also lived through the 90s, I had to scroll depressingly far down to find someone who related this to hiphop music instead of a video game..... Like, Im so get off my lawn mad right now....I think Im going to go yell at some kids how they go it too yeezy these days with their drip shark cap babies in fleek the fo sho riz cluge-nugget, and how my school was 30 miles, uphill, in both directions, in the snow now.... Anyhoo, dont break a hip my fellow elder one..... AND YOU KIDS GET OFF MY LAWN!!!
Before the instrument went all the way for its intended sound effect, it sounded like the sounds you'd hear in Super Hot whenever you hit/broke something.
Ah, I was wondering why I wasn't recognizing the sound, it's GTA (a game that I never got into, but nevertheless acknowledge its popularity) And apparently my brain decided that I'm talking fancy today
FLEXATONE! Thank you! I've been trying to figure out what that instrument is called for about a year now! It was in the special instruments drawer in the percussion section in the high school band room!
I knew the flexatone 12 years ago when I was in middle school, it was called for in a piece we played in band called "Revenge of the Dust Bunnies" and at the time I had put almost as many hours into San Andreas as I had the Mega Man X series. Good times
I actually ran into one of these for the first time irl in this performance of the Wizard of Oz im taking part in. They brought this sucker out for the jitterbug segment and I had the time of my life with it before I learned its name was a “flexatone”. I just always referred to it as “the twangy-twang”. UA-cam clearly must be reading my mind to be showing this video to me within several days of seeing this thing in person.
You're right, if you didn't have your phone in your pocket at the time, because phones are always on, even when they're 'all the way off.' It does listen to whatever is happening - but I have had it happen when I don't have a phone in my pocket, or any computers near me at all.
Don’t be shy, click the link 😉
ua-cam.com/video/gis0Z5uN0wE/v-deo.htmlsi=BIi001wn9aG6zY1S
Epic
Epic gamessss
I for some reason heard the cloaked sound from Payday 2
Yees.
What specific game are you referring to out of curiosity? I've only heard it on a scrabble type of game on snapchat, but I somehow doubt that is what you were referring to haha
the most recognizable sound made using something I've never seen before
ua-cam.com/video/B5zOBty9JKM/v-deo.html
Your comment completes my life
@@deobeesie369 your comment takes life away
Jetset radio start to burst in
Bet you haven't seen a bass steel drum either, yet you've probably heard it tons.
I didn’t know where you were going with it at first but when you bent it to change the pitch I was like “Ah sh*t, here we go again.”
Lmfaooo exactly 😭
This is a god-tier comment lmao
Good comment, +100 respect
+1,000 XP comment
Big same lmao
I like how each attempt just gets progressively better.
yes
Ah yes, the keyboard is for sure the most recognizable instrument in video game history.
I-
You know what... you are absolutely right.
True
Ahh, nothing like observing the flex-a-tone in its natural habitat.
I don't think that's it's natural habitat tho
@@AragornAnimations Go on, what is the natural habitat of the flex-a-tone? Variations for Orchestra Op.31 or The Race of Life? The Zeitgeist knows it from GTA San Andreas or the Simpsons theme, so which one is yours?
Bargain basement thrift shop lmao jk respect
This must be the most surprisingly educated clapback I ever witnessed
@@QuackersCo Shit dude, calm down, any more and you wouldn't be able to recognize the corpse of this comment holy fuck
I really love that you can never really know how one of these videos is gonna end.
Lol same! But I’m never disappointed
Unless you check how much is left
@@someguyontheinternet2544 *how* not *when*
nah i knew exactly after hearing the pitch go up
I knew when the video started and he showed the instrument
I honestly had no idea where you were going with this, until that iconic sound was made and I recognized it immediately as something commonly used in the Yo-Kai Watch franchise! I had no idea there was a full-blown instrument for that, that's really cool to learn!
Oh my gosh, you’re totally right! That’s really cool
YOUR RIGHT I knew it was from some anime! Then the GTA music threw me totally off
Oh what how you are so right
DAMN I WAS JUST THINKING THAT
Definitely hear it in dragon ball too
I’m pretty sure this is also the instrument they used to make the newtype sound in Gundam.
thought the same
It does, yes.
all you had to do, was follow the damn Trojan Horse, CA
Well I learned something new, I had absolutely no idea they actually have something to make that sound. I totally thought it'd be done on a synthesizer.
You would be surprised at how many sound effects are made with an obscure instrument. My favorite so far is the waterphone. You've probably never seen or heard of it, but I guaranty you'll recognize the creepy sounds it makes.
I've always thought that was a triangle
@@venbrou You're right never heard of a waterphone. So I just looked it up and you're right I instantly recognized it. Now I know how they make those creepy noises, thanks
@@cmdrlightwalker_9877 if you want another one you've probably never heard of, look up bowing a tam tam or the musical saw
@@Edits_Panic0 me too
When I started playing percussion all the way back in 4th grade, the flexatone was the coolest thing to use in our class. Too bad the second a non-band student got their hands on it they would immediately snap it.
Never seen one in real life but this was one of my first thoughts when I saw it. xD
God there's nothing worse than an amateur with no respect for an instrument
@@SakanaOtoko
My class fucked around with the "tiny piano" hint: melodica and broke it within the hour.
The DISRESPECT.
@ Sakana Otoko
So true 😫 it’s terrible and just overall frustrating
That’s why I’m extremely touchy on non-percussions touching percussion
When the characters in a 1990s -2000s anime have a shocking revelation:
I played this without realising there was no sound at first but just KNEW exactly what it sounded like 😂
as a musician, i can say that this is the most impressive performance ive seen to date. kestrel never disappoints
Your a musician and find this impressive?
never have i ever seen such an exquisite performance (i’m sarcastic lol)
As a musician I find playing any instruments impressive that creates a type of music structure; impressive.
As a former highschool band member I ding anything involving the making of music… excuisite
I'm an amateur musician whose played some gigs, so I'm not exactly a guru. But things like this just blow my mind. Someone used this weird device to make something iconic
As a percussionist, the sound of the flexatone fills me with absolute pure joy.
Honostly, same 😅
Me too :3
why do percussion instruments always have the coolest or lamest names ever? like, someone named an instrument a drum, and that got super popular, but a flexatone didnt? there’s probably an instrument out there called the “fluxinator nutsack destroyer child rearer bomb 3000” that we’ve never heard of before
@@lofeofsope2542 You know that instrument would slap
@@CodedHumor it would slap my ass
Its incredible how unique that song is, i have never seen anyone replicate that song after all those years
ua-cam.com/video/lC12LzJCS4Y/v-deo.html this guy has. Its really close, the best I've seen.
This looks and feels like a video from classic YT, I love it. I'd rate it 5 stars.
I’ve been wondering what that sound was I always thought it was someone using metal buckets as drums or something
it's a flexatone!
@@oldboy9267 oh ok
Honestly your not far off and you can simulate "similar" effects with more conventional metal percussion instruments. But the flexatone can go for days making that clear warble. Only thing more fun to dig out the perc cabinet is a slap stick and that's because you get to pretend to beat freshmen with it...ah good times
@@oldboy9267 duh
I always enjoy random percussion instruments nobody knows the name of but immediately recognizes the sounds they make. They always look like insane and esoteric measuring tools created by Doofphenshmerf.
losing it over the spelling of doofenshmirtz lol /lh
Doofenshirmtz evil incoprated!
This is my laugh-inator.... it makes peole laugh.
Ah yes, Dr Doofphenshmerf, archnemesis of Purell the Sanipus, from the hit series Finland's Herbs
vibraslap gotta be one of the GOAT band room jimmy jackers
@@maelthrajaluk42 lmao I wish I could give this multiple likes
I guess that's how they made the dancing toaster sounds for Ghostbuster 2. You can get the same sort of effect if you put a half inch of water in a pot and tap the edge to make it ring like a bell while moving the water around. It changes the pitch and you get that same wobbly sound. I always figured that's how the made sounds like that. Very interesting. I love foley art. The artists are so creative and think in out of the box ways.
Never thought of that, but you may be right
Also, the sound you're describing has been made into an instrument. It's called the waterphone and it's also used for some other eerie sounds too
This is one of the best videos I've seen in a week or so. Very well done, short, sweet, potent.
I literally spent most of my childhood wondering what made that sound. Thank you so much
No replies?
@@ZIIV245 yes
@@ZIIV245 yes
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@@ZIIV245 yes
I have thought about this for a while. Never did I think that sound would come out of a broken cheese grater. I am impressed and amazed.
me too! And a little hungry.
some of the most infamous sound effects in the world are made by insanely creative processes. like the blaster sounds in star wars was george and the crew smacking big metal rods together
Reminds me of the time a bunch of American EDM composers were trying to figure out how Netherlands group Noisia made the grimey whine noise at the end of their song Diplodocus. They were talking about using multiple modulators and audio plug-ins in trying to replicate it, and after catching wind of it a few days later Noisia came forward and said "it's literally just a power drill in front of a mic with the trigger halfway pulled in." I can't listen to Diplodocus the same way ever again. I hear the drill now.
@@paulwaltersheherfeministvl521 who
Sound design is awesome! I watched a video a while back, where they were making broken bone/dismemberment sounds, and they would take different vegetables, like a head of cabbage, and squish and rip them apart with their hands in front of a microphone. A lot of creativity goes into making sounds!
I watch this several times a day because CJ dancing on the keyboard at the end is what keeps me alive
Hendrix used one of these in his song titled "1983... (A Merman I shall turn to be)". He referred to the instrument as a "Martian dinner bell" 😅
"What is this weird thing where is he going with thi-"
"YOOOOO"
YOOOOO
YOOOOO
YOOOOO
YOOOOO
YOOOOO
That instrument alone made this song so much more iconic
that sound just skritches my brain so good
Bro that video was like rly rly good.
Those flex-a-tones are essential for teachers. They get attention, and if they don't initially you can simply raise the pitch and volume till it hurts. That's right: the piercing sound legally inflicts physical pain on the class when yapping gets out of control. A teacher's dream!
Disclaimer: don't actually purposefully hurt the children parents might get mad if you do that
"legally"?
A shitty teacher’s dream* FTFY
@@TheNinja94a my kindergarten teacher used a high pitch whistle
teachers dont really care how they get silence as long as they get it.
A sadistic teachers dream
I can honestly say I've never heard this sound before in my life.
To think the all knowing did not have the whole story...
Me neither
Good edit
Me neither
Me neither
I think I heard it in a Yo-Kai Watch song one time
I cant believe the fact that i knew what the somg was gonna be before i even played the video... im amazing
Not me getting PTSD from cloakers...
I love how this looks and feels like it was recorded in 2009
Chill out, what ya yellin' for? Lay back, it's all been done before. And if you could only let it be, you will see that I am the funniest YouT*ber of all time. Admit it, my dear follow*r keus
@@paulwaltersheherfeministvl521 what
This video quality on 2009 youtube? Naw
Well i swear i've seen this video like 2 years ago. There's no way this video is from 4 month ago.
I remember hearing one of these in band and boy are they way louder than you’d expect
I mean, its literally two metal balls whacking against a metal plate.
@@elvingearmasterirma7241 two balls whacking against a plate
@@elvingearmasterirma7241 balls
@@explosivediarrheagaming7695 in your ja-
Jk
Got funny towards the end thanks lil bro!!!
Peace & Love!!!
Ive always wondered how they get that sound in funky tracks. ngl when I saw the instrument I was like "i don't recognize this at all" but then you started playing it
Great video, great game, great memories
I can honestly say I've never heard this sound before in my life.
But it got used in a single track in a game two decades ago! Can't you see how iconic it is???
Same.
Unless you're 9yrs old and sheltered, you are full of shit.
@@centerflag982 A single track from a game that sold 17 million copies on the best selling game console of all time.
Ain't exactly a niche thing we're talking about here.
@@Majima_Nowhere I played the game and have zero recollection of the sound. Least iconic sound ever.
The nostalgia hits hard whenever I hear this theme song...
CJ! You need to follow the damn train!
@@HotlineIowaProductions
Smoke first needs to learn how to aim his damn gun!
"Stab out, CJ!"
You should really make a cover of the theme ngl
Oops never catch me without this doohickey🥵🥵🥶🥶🥶🥶
Ok, but this synth went harder than the original.
most underrated comment
WAAAY harder gd!
That's what I'm sayinggggg
I like both
This sounds like what if GTA SA takes place in the 80s instead.
I literally never know where you’re going with these videos and all Of a sudden they come together and it’s awesome. You’re a legend 😅🙏🏽
Comment legend
Hey you up?
🧐
baby driver quitted driving and now he's doing music videos on yt
Default dancing CJ was what I needed to see today
I’d say it’s that weird instrument they use in Desert Levels. You know the one I am talking about. The instrument that sounds like it could be a guitar or percussion instrument, it sorta sounds magical with a bit of an echo to it, the smallest bit like when you pick up an item in dark souls, it’s usually the main instrument in Mario desert levels. Yeah, that instrument.
Edit: the oud! It’s called the “oud”!!!
Are you thinking of the Oud?
@@CoffeeFurret OMG YES! FUCKING YES! GOD DAMMIT YOU DID IT! YEARS OF ENDLESS GOOGLE SEARCHING, ALL DONE AND NO LONGER NECESSARY! THE MISSIONS, THE NIGHTMARES, THEY’RE FINALLY OVER!
THANK YOU OH GOD THANK YOU
Yeah i know that one
dont forget the steel drums for beach/water levels
@@beepobeepo Handpan
I've never heard of the flexatone before, but all of the sudden it's my favourite instrument.
I haven’t either actually. :)
Me either.
I THOUGHT THIS WAS A TUBULAR BELL FOR A SECOND
We catching that train with this one CJ
It's still crazy how even older GTA titles are getting love to this day.
You mean GTA San Andreas only?
@@CptDuck honestly kinda true, besides the (really bad) remasters that came out, nobody's been talking about vice city, gta 3, gta 4, vice city stories... it's just that there are a lot of memes surrounding San Andreas and this guy generalized it all and bunched it all up together as "older gta titles" even though most people don't care about any of them besides SA
@@J.R.Swish1 yeah. and i still play san andreas to this day
Are you serious vice City fans are like new Vegas fans that shit has inspired a generation... Despite San Andreas still being my childhood favorite...
Yep. As I thought. Many GTA:SA players are too young to remember GTA, GTA:London or GTA2.
I love how old rap would include the most obscure instruments and sounds
Beats were made and sold to them, even they didn't know most of the time, they were the to spit bars
Bro whipped out the doohickey
I think wine bottles are the closer sounding instrument.
Link?
Oh man, being from the 90s, listening to G-Funk, I always wondered what that sound was 😂
yeah, sure. poor flying is the thing that counts right here...
on a whole new level.
Bruh.....as someone who also lived through the 90s, I had to scroll depressingly far down to find someone who related this to hiphop music instead of a video game..... Like, Im so get off my lawn mad right now....I think Im going to go yell at some kids how they go it too yeezy these days with their drip shark cap babies in fleek the fo sho riz cluge-nugget, and how my school was 30 miles, uphill, in both directions, in the snow now....
Anyhoo, dont break a hip my fellow elder one.....
AND YOU KIDS GET OFF MY LAWN!!!
Flexin' with the Flexatone 😎
"I need more flexatone"
Percussionists in our band got to use these for our last concert, they always get the cool thingies to make noise with lol
The keyboard really is very recognizable!
This is good comment
An underrated comment, to be sure
@@AndyWitmyer but a welcome one.
I was expecting something like a Mario sound effect
This was very surprising
The moment I saw the thumbnail I knew where you were going with this (I really really like percussion instruments), and you didn’t disappoint!
I looked at it and I just pictured a sound in my head and I was right
If I'm not mistaken, this is also the instrument used to create the "Newtype Flash" sound from the Gundam franchise.
You're correct.
Before the instrument went all the way for its intended sound effect, it sounded like the sounds you'd hear in Super Hot whenever you hit/broke something.
Omg yeah
s-super what...? 😳
@@kodenmachou Super. Hot.
HOLY SHIT!
HOW DID I NOT FIND THIS EARLIER
Whenever you first played that thing, i instantly knew what is that
This is the embodiment of "never let them know your next move".
*takes one look at the instrument* "Ah shit, here we go again...
Me after the first two notes: "YEAUUUUUUUUGH"
OH THAT’S WHAT THAT NOISE IS
Ah, I was wondering why I wasn't recognizing the sound, it's GTA (a game that I never got into, but nevertheless acknowledge its popularity)
And apparently my brain decided that I'm talking fancy today
My brain decides I'm talking fancy every day. I've also never played GTA either, as it simply doesn't interest me.
Conversing in a sophisticated manner does sound very pleasant in the mind's ear.
BUT YOU DON'T GOT NO GTA????
YOU COME TO DA WRONG HOUSE, FOO-
I've definitely played GTA but I didn't remember the sound
@@johnsonbaroncaveler6634 They never said they didn't know what it was; they only said they never played it.
@@JoBot__
A-ha, then correction. I will now revise my statement.
FLEXATONE! Thank you! I've been trying to figure out what that instrument is called for about a year now! It was in the special instruments drawer in the percussion section in the high school band room!
How is this so smooth!? XD
You learn something new everyday
sometimes i question your sanity
It's also used for whenever a Newtype activates any type of abilities in Gundam anime's since 1979 btw.
I love the flexatone
Oh ok, when that keyboard hit with it I was like " ahhhh shittttt" 😂!
0:18 that very brief moment right there where you slightly pressed it down was all I needed to realise what you were going with this.
Literally can't help but smile hearing that tune
I remember hearing that all the time in Yo-Kai Watch, now I just need to find out what the other weird noises in the songs are made by
I knew the flexatone 12 years ago when I was in middle school, it was called for in a piece we played in band called "Revenge of the Dust Bunnies" and at the time I had put almost as many hours into San Andreas as I had the Mega Man X series. Good times
Cool piece title
I found one of these in a box of random percussion instruments at college and I wondered what it was and how to play it.
Now I know
Ah, the flexitone
My worst nightmare
This had me lost at first lol.. the end is like 😵 the secret of the world
You know it's a legendary game when meme are still made 18 years later
I'd like to say that we had one of these when I was in band in high school but, musical instruments hadn't been invented yet.
I knew it would be a reference!!!!
It’s really mostly recognizable as the sound first used in the original MS Gundam series for whenever a Newtype gets a premonition.
I actually ran into one of these for the first time irl in this performance of the Wizard of Oz im taking part in. They brought this sucker out for the jitterbug segment and I had the time of my life with it before I learned its name was a “flexatone”. I just always referred to it as “the twangy-twang”.
UA-cam clearly must be reading my mind to be showing this video to me within several days of seeing this thing in person.
You're right, if you didn't have your phone in your pocket at the time, because phones are always on, even when they're 'all the way off.' It does listen to whatever is happening - but I have had it happen when I don't have a phone in my pocket, or any computers near me at all.
@@eagledove9 I dont have a smartphone but thanks for the theory
What song is this
@@GG-gw9oo Grand Theft Auto
@@JustMatchmaking THX
I just finished the game a few days ago so I instantly recognized the song
Great work!
Another instrument that the sound is recognisable but the instrument isn’t often known (I think atleast) is the waterphone for horror movies.
I don't know how you did it, but you somehow managed to capture the vibe of early (like pre 2010) UA-cam in this video. Massive respect.
He's probably using an old digital camera from back then
Well you learn something new every day. I've literally never heard this sound effect before.
Till this day i wondered how they made that sound i thout they were dipping bells in water lol
The editing on this short musical observation is absolutely deranged and I'm down with it.
It makes the sound of the "Newtype flash" from Gundam shows.
The most recognizable instrument in video game history that I literally cannot recall hearing the sound of in two decades of gaming
once a year i remember this channel exists and my happiness returns
Oh u got..and dahm u gots me good😂🤙🏾
This is officially the coolest percussion instrument, I always try and sneak it into any performance possible. Beethoven 5 + flexatone is amazing.