Huge horn sounds

[Brothulhu]

Struggling to find any samples of this sort of thing (or how to synthesize them)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UayQi2tdJTw 2.16

Would just sample this but the damn uruk hai smash the door in while it's sounding.

[mromgwtf]

Just sample the horn without a reverb tail, and add your own.

[Brothulhu]

Just sample the horn without a reverb tail, and add your own.

Cheers, I've done that, it sounds alright but I'm still interested in finding more/similar

[SunkLo]

I'd get a tuba multisample instrument and record a few different takes of the same note and layer them. Also, recording notes at different pitches and then varispeeding them back in tune can thicken them up a lot. Experiment with chaining reverbs, first a (relatively) short one to mimic extra horn resonance, followed by a more typical longer verb. Try using saturation on some or all of the samples as well as the wet reverb sends to add extra overtones.

[charles1]

i downloaded the video's audio, opened it in my DAW, and cropped it to get the first horn sound. it's actually really clean and lasts about 2.5 seconds before the other sounds come in. I put a little bit of EQ (cutoff @ 8000 Hz). it's actually a pretty decent sample and you could use effects to get a longer tail. I'm not gonna bother uploading it if you don't want it but I'd be glad to send it to you. Let me know.

[alphacat]

1) Sample a real horn (maybe French Horn, Tuba, something like that) at a high bitrate, drop into Paulstretch and add harmonics, drop pitch, etc.
2) Sample a didgeridoo and layer parts of a synthesized horn + saw wave harmonics
3) Give something like Xoxos' Aerophone or DSK Brass VSTi a try.

Years ago I heard this amazing electroacoustic music by a Canadian named Jean Francois LaPorte - one track was made entirely of recordings of a Zamboni machine (!) ...and another called "Les Sirènes Volantes" was made from various vehicle horns (trucks, cars, boats) played in a cavernous warehouse. They both made deep impressions on me sonically and are well worth investigating as a base sample for granulizing.

[Blingley]

Formant shifting actual horn sounds down in Melodyne works.

[Brothulhu]

Cheers for all the help, got a few sounds I like and still other things to try

Also in the process of ripping the audio from my flatmate's bluray of the two towers to sample it. I figure it will be better than youtube