Hoover sound

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In electronic music , a Hoover sound (also called Hoover , English for vacuum cleaner ) is a synthesizer sound or instrument.

The Hoover consists of a complex waveform that is caused by several (usually three) oscillators , each of which is played with at least one octave difference and subjected to an extreme use of pulse-width modulation ( PWM , from English pulse-width modulation) to add a very dense chorus effect afterwards . This instrument has the characteristic that it sounds very lively, which is caused by high LFO frequencies of the pulse width modulation. Traditionally, the sound is generated using a Roland Alpha Juno-2 synthesizer and WhatThe? Patch generated. Most of the Hoover sounds were created with this synthesizer as it has a unique method for its PWM of dividing the oscillator sound into four sections and modifying the width of each section individually. More recent Hoover sounds, on the other hand, use samples from the Alpha Juno-2 and enhance this rigidity using granular synthesis .

The Hoover sound became known through the techno track Mentasm by Second Phase ( Joey Beltram & Mundo Muzique ) and Beltram's remix of the track Dominator by Human Resource (both tracks were released in 1991). As a result, the Hoover sound was used in some tracks in a wide variety of electronic dance music genres such as hard trance , hardcore techno , hard house , hardstyle and aggrotech .

Examples

The Hoover sound can be heard clearly in the following music tracks, or also varied with additional effects:

  • Mundo Muzique - Untitled A1 track from the Mundo EP (1991)
  • Second Phase - Mentasm (1991)
  • The Prodigy - Charly (Alley Cat Mix) (1991)
  • Plexus - Cactus Rhythm (1991)
  • Ultra-Sonic - Annihilating Rhythm (1993)
  • Goldie - Terminator (1993)
  • Commander Tom - Are Am Eye? (1995)
  • Sons Of Ilsa - Pulsinger's Night (1995)
  • x-Rx - Fuck This Shit (2007)
  • The Bloody Beetroots - Warp 1.9 (2009)
  • Lady Gaga - Bad Romance (2009)
  • Combichrist - MonsterMurderKill (2010)
  • Gesaffelstein - Belgium (2011)
  • Rob Threezy - Can't Stop (2008)