The Felt Bottle
A water bottle struck with a soft felt mallet.
ByJoshua Meltzer
The story
I found the perfect water bottle, acoustically speaking that is. My family teases me for being obsessed with such things but hey, Im right! This one really sounds good, almost hang drum like at times. I wanted to use a felt mallet to get a softer attack, obviously going for the same effect as a Felt Piano.. I recorded many soft hits with the bottle filled with water at various degrees to change the pitch. I then, pitched them up and down more to broaden the range. I added some light filtering, a little verb and noise reduction. I also included a pad and an Arpeggiator, which I think works really well for this instrument. “Motion And Space” combines the Arp with the pad. You can definitely add some “Splosh” on “The Felt Bottle” for some extra love. Enjoy!
Reviews
The new "Felted Piano" Vibroglockarimbaphone.
And again. Joshua creates a new instrument that none of us - well certainly not me anyway - new we needed. It's like a "soft piano" version of all those piano-like percussion instruments. Perfect for that reflective cue where piano/rhodes/vibes/whatever just aren't right. All it needs now is a name. "Meltzephone" maybe?
Water bottle? Low range is awesome.
Simple but beautiful! Very playable. I especially like the low range sounds which has a little like sub boom effect.
This definitely grew on me
As much as I love Joshua's sample libraries, I have to admit that this did next to nothing for me at first. However, as I played it more and more, it really grew on me. The main Felt Bottle sound itself is really rather nondescript, but then I tried the arpeggiator and began to warm up to it. The Motion and space multi combines the bottle pad and arpeggiator, and it's a truly potent combination. This is another great library from Joshua and a very inspiring download!