The most beautiful sound in the world

[JCSouthpawtele]

falling rain
kittens purring
the wimper my dog makes when it wants my attention
the creek in front of my grandparents house in West Virginia as we sit on the front porch

things I am waiting for are-
the love of my life's heart beat next to me
and that baby's first cry

If you could ask a dying man this it would probably be..
the gentle way he breathes his last breath and the winds that sweep him off to the heavens..I think I just wrote a song

[smsuryan]

okay this isnt necessarily a noise but it was a cool moment...i was on a particular lake one morning a few years ago early in the morning drinking a big ol' cup a coffee....it was autumn i believe and kinda chilly....a bird (maybe a hawk?) scooped up a fish outta the water and flew off...he got about 50-60 feet in the air and another bird started fighting him for it!! he dropped the fish and down it came from all that way...SPLASH!! something right out of a nature movie...

[otterhound]

Three come to mind for me as special . The sound of a new snowfall just as it is over and nothing is moving yet . The sound of waking to the laugh of Kukkaburras in Maquarie State Park outside of Sydney . The sound of a Rosewood Tele on the neck pup with everything turned up to 10 through a 66 Bassman .

[jmoore65]

Magpies singing on a Melbourne morning - a rambunctious, rollicking chortle:

http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=42189

Later on that same morning - my partner climaxing...

[63dot]

my small dog chasing birds or flying insects in the yard

the sound of any electric guitar unplugged outdoors on a quiet day and focusing on the tone of the wood as if it were an acoustic (a maple necked tele sounds different than a Les Paul for instance)

[Westerly Sunn]

All alone on a deep Winter's night when the weather is Cold and bone dry... A billion frigid stars twinkling in the depths of the Void illuminate the nightworld with a silvery shimmering frost like Christmas lights... and you can hear a low wind that pours over the entire landscape and through the barren trees. It sounds like the Earth is sighing in it's sleep...

...or the echo of a Woodpecker; working the very top of a dying tree far off on the other side of the woods...

[PeteMac]

Wow . . . !



This thread has about a hundred songs in it, ready to be written !

You guys write awful pretty . . . I reckon I can just about hear most of those sounds . . .

[eddiewagner]

besides certain guitartones (that oh so sweet pedalsteel) i really dig:
the small waterfall, close to where i live,
the frogs at night,
rain at night,
heavy thunderstorms
and birds.
it´s all happening round where i live, so i can´t complain.
eddie

[Volitan]

I'm a cracker.

There's nothing better than going to a creek or swamp and just listening to the sounds of nature. Herons stalking a fish, otters playing, fish jumping, bugs buzzing. Awesome.

Also, I love a nice female voice (singing or otherwise).

[nic'o'caster]

Blackbird singing in the dead of night !

[63dot]

Originally Posted by PeteMac

Wow . . . !



This thread has about a hundred songs in it, ready to be written !

You guys write awful pretty . . . I reckon I can just about hear most of those sounds . . .

we are all pretty boys

[frenchi-farina]

My two kids when they say funny, "wrong" words... thay make me see the world in a different light.

[PraiseCaster]

When my oldest son was born, it was the start of winter, and it was a very cold winter, and our little house was very drafty. Many a nights, my new born son was asleep on my chest, under the covers, just so I could keep him warm and toasty.

All the sounds he made.................

Wow!

[kyle1167]

My wife has claimed to have heard one of our cats fart...

[Joel Terry]

• The female human voice (laughing, crying, talking, whispering, in the throes of passion...it doesn't matter)
• A Scottish dialect
• Burning, melting plastic (I like the "zzzzzt...zzzzzt" sound as it drips)
• A thunderstorm
• The mysterious, barely audible rumble of quiet, snow-blanketed winter nights
• A 60-cycle hum (except when performing or recording)
• A foghorn
• A mbira ("thumb piano")
• Through-zero flanging
• A slightly overdriven organ or guitar through a slow Leslie
• A single slowly strummed open-E chord on a Telecaster (in center switch position) through a '63 Vibroverb (with the reverb and speed on 4 and the intensity on 7)
• Songs/calls of Northern Cardinals, Northern Mockingbirds, Red-tailed Hawks, and Great Horned Owls
• AM radio while turning the frequency dial
• The "chirruping" of cats (this is the way they talk to each other; "Meowing" is something domestic cats learned to do as a imitative means of "talking" to humans)
• Church bells ringing in the distance
• The wind on a mountain peak
• Trent Reznor's interludes
• The low C of Moog Taurus I pedals in "Taurus" mode
• LP vinyl records between songs and on the run-out
• Any recorded sound played in reverse
• Indescribable sounds in my head at any given moment

Oh, I could probably list a thousand sounds that are beautiful to me.

Joel

[Rabog]

Easing the genoa sheet/main sheet on an IACC 24m (modern Americas Cup Yacht) ready for a 'sheet smoking' bear away set. Just awesome.....no other sound in yachting compares. (Apart from maybe easing a fully loaded runner.........)

[PraiseCaster]

One more I'd like to add:

1980 Suzuki RM 400 dirt bike.

It didnt sound like any other large bore 2 stroke out there. Just gave me chills everytime I fired her up. That was one fun bike.

[MandyMarie]

Originally Posted by Joel Terry

[*]An single slowly strummed open-E chord on a Telecaster (in center switch position) through a '63 Vibroverb (with the reverb and speed on 4 and the intensity on 7)
Joel

My Vibroverb is a re-issue but now I have to pull it out of it's roadcase and lug it into the living room so I can do just that! That's a great list Joel (as always!)

[Stevie 202]

Sound of a guitar,
Of any kind, any style.
Since I was a kid.

[Flashback]

Originally Posted by Joel Terry

[list][*]The "chirruping" of cats (this is the way they talk to each other; "Meowing" is something domestic cats learned to do as a imitative means of "talking" to humans)

THIS! Its weird someone else enjoys this. My two cats at the apartment are always doing this with each other when they wrestle.

Its like UFC where you can hear the fighters talk trash.

I also enjoy the noise Jess makes when she first wakes up and makes this humming noise.

[SnidelyWhiplash]

Originally Posted by rangercaster

a Fender guitar played through a clean Fender amp ...

Amen! With just a smidgen of reverb.

[Flashback]

- Dano Baritone into a Twin Reverb with a 15 inch speaker.
- Billy Gibbons Harmonics

[Joel Terry]

Originally Posted by Flashback

THIS! Its weird someone else enjoys this. My two cats at the apartment are always doing this with each other when they wrestle.

Its like UFC where you can hear the fighters talk trash.

That last line--what a hilarious analogy!

Originally Posted by Flashback

- Dano Baritone into a Twin Reverb with a 15 inch speaker.

Ah! Good call, Patrick!

Joel

[Joel Terry]

Originally Posted by MandyMarie

My Vibroverb is a re-issue but now I have to pull it out of it's roadcase and lug it into the living room so I can do just that! That's a great list Joel (as always!)

Yeah, my Vibroverb is a '63 Reissue, too--I probably should've qualified that, Mandy!

The original and reissue '63 Vibroverbs have a tremolo like the old tweed Tremolux and Vibrolux amps, where a 12AX7 serves as an oscillator to modulate the fixed bias of the power tubes. That particular kind of tremolo has always stood out in my mind as the archetypical "amp tremolo" sound. It's smoother sounding, in my opinion, than the oscillated photoresistor-type tremolos that began with the introduction of the blackface amps in late-'63/early-'64.

Yes, I'm an amp nerd.

Joel

[Skrik]

We're all adults here, right?

To me the one sound that makes me completely at peace with the world is the woman I love coming. (Shame there isn't a woman I love right now.)

[podboy3]

Originally Posted by drewsblues

The crack of the bat
My wife, when she laughs
A full D-chord in drop-D tuning
The sound of the office, when I'm the first one in
The crackle and pop of an old LP on a turntable
Those few seconds when you hear a song from another room, and completely invert it... turn it into something exotic and new before realizing that it is something familiar, that you've heard a thousand times before.

Anything with my wife also, of course..... But those last two mentioned are extremely sweet.

[edgetone]

Your small child when they say "I love you, Daddy".

[Ignatius]

I play in a band with a very talented female singer. Her voice sends me. A lot of times I'm over on my side of the stage just focusing on my job. That job includes listening, but I'm often listening to the big stuff as well as the stuff between the cracks. But every now and then I'll just listen to her, and it's a great sound.

[63dot]

Originally Posted by Skrik

We're all adults here, right?

Yes, maybe.

But I thought of a sound I love. Being a street style (wanna-be) skateboarder, even though I am middle aged, the sound of 100 durometer wheels on badly kept roads is pure music.

It's our version of the Harley rumble, but louder since skateboard wheels have progressively become harder since the 1970s along with the skateboards being made of harder and thinner pressed maple ply.

The result is a very loud, irritating sound for anybody who does not love street skating. In my rural backwoods neighborhood, you can hear a skateboard with hard wheels farther than you can hear any motorcycle or car. No wonder why there are those "NO SKATEBOARDING" signs.

But I not only love the sound, but feel the tingle in my feet and jarring of my bones when I hear a skateboard. Man, I just got myself worked up into getting on my board (7.5" Powell Mini-Logo, Independent Koston low trucks, Pig wheels, and Powell Bones Reds bearings).

See ya! :)

[Brendo]

Originally Posted by edgetone

Your small child when they say "I love you, Daddy".

Except when they say it to your brother.

Best sound in the world?? Pull my finger and I'll show you.


BBBRRRRRRRRRPPPPPPPPPPPTTTTTTTTT!

[jazztele]

bacon frying, coffee brewing...

a maj7#11 chord...on whatever instrument...

my dogs paws on the sidewalk, as we walk at 5am, and nobody's out yet, even in my busy city neighborhood...

when my wife sneezes. it's such a cute little thing...so ladylike. reminds me why i love her.

my push mower. it says "shuduhduhduhduhduh..." it releases the wonderful smell of cut grass (that's a whole 'nuther thread, eh?) and none of that gas smell...

[agony]

Another one here who thinks the sound of a child laughing is the most beautiful sound of all. It's a confirmation of all that humanity has to offer here on earth. Hope for the future, the sound of generations of man continuing.

And when my daughter says "I love you, daddy". Because it's sincere. The purest love, and it confirms that I would gladly lay down my life for her without hesitation.

[jmoore65]

The sound of the BRM V16 (1950's formula 1 racer)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZMPDCNyQxE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRSYTw9IBxg

"Audible Jesus" as one Youtube poster put it...

JM

[JCSouthpawtele]

The silence just before you know a child is up to something...then you hear a chair being slid across the kitchen and go to look an see whats up, to find that the pizza you were gonna have for dinner has had the entire bottle of Mortons salt poured onto it. my nephew did this when he was younger. After about a minute of not knowing what to say the adults all started laughing. mad but laughing.

[Jackson Jackson]

Easily, the belly laughs of my two boys. When They are laughing from their souls...nothing better.

Others...

Many things I hear my bride say or do - too many to count.

A wonderfully tuned snare drum.

Trains.

Frogs - one lives in my neighbors fountain and he likes to sing to me at night.

The sound of a dobro, especially if played by Jerry Douglas.

[zoppotrump]

i do a lot of climbing and mountain walking and it is always the best reward when you reach the top of a mountain in the late morning, looking down, and there is no sound but if a gentle breeze, and that´s it. i always take a short nap on the mountains top to soak this up. remembering that silence is sometimes a big help.

and as long as i live, i will enjoy my little girl wake me up, saying " ..good morning daddy.."

zoppotrump
:O)

[Westerly Sunn]

"The chirruping of Cats"...

Is that "the same as" or "close to" that "Clicking noise" they make in their throats when they spot prey? I like that one...

A box of new-born kittens begging for milk and the way their Mama talks to you while you admire her litter ain't half-bad either...

Laundry billowing and flapping on the line on a windy day...

Alison Krauss singing anything...

[Flashback]

Ahh laundry on the line is awesome. I just wish people didnt look down on you for drying clothes outside. I would PREFER all my clothes to be line dried. But my apartment acts funny when you hang things on your balcony.

[Joel Terry]

Originally Posted by Westerly Sunn

"The chirruping of Cats"...

Is that "the same as" or "close to" that "Clicking noise" they make in their throats when they spot prey? I like that one...

As best as I can describe it in writing, a cat's chirrup sounds like rolling "Rs" in falsetto--usually done in a quick, short, quiet burst. The neat thing is that these chirrups seem to be punctuated; for instance, if one of my cats is sleeping and I softly tap it or pet it, it will make a "rising" rolling-R noise-- "brrr?"--as if it's saying, "Huh?" And when I come home from work, the chirrups are more like statements or exclamations: "Brrr!" ("Hi!") There are numerous lengths and inflections, really.

As far as the cool "clicking" sound cats make when they see birds, squirrels, etc. (which sounds to me like a really high-pitched *ackackackackack*), most animal behaviorists believe this is a sort of "rehearsal behavior," where a cat is "imagining" its mouth clamping down on its prey's neck before the cat actually goes in for the kill--not unlike one of us TDPers limbering up our fingers or making a few "air guitar" chords before we put our hands around a Tele neck and play.

Originally Posted by Westerly Sunn

A box of new-born kittens begging for milk and the way their Mama talks to you while you admire her litter ain't half-bad either...

Yeah, I like that, too!

Joel

[Flashback]

Originally Posted by Joel Terry

As best as I can describe it in writing, a cat's chirrup sounds like rolling "Rs" in falsetto--usually done in a quick, short, quiet burst. The neat thing is that these chirrups seem to be punctuated; for instance, if one of my cats is sleeping and I softly tap it or pet it, it will make a "rising" rolling-R noise-- "brrr?"--as if it's saying, "Huh?" And when I come home from work, the chirrups are more like statements or exclamations: "Brrr!" ("Hi!") There are numerous lengths and inflections, really.

Yeah its not a sound they make with their mouth open. Its kind of like the human version of "mmmhmmm" or "mmhh?".



Cats are so awesome.