Concert Kazoos from SoniccoutureIn their ongoing pursuit of unusual sounds, Soniccouture have released a free Kontakt instrument — Concert Kazoos. Using 25 tuned suzuki kazoos, to make a 500+MB sample library, Sonicouture really have gone all out. There's even a built-in convolution reverb to give a more mystical air to your kazooings. Here's more info from Soniccouture.
25 tuned plastic mouth-horns, or 'Kazoos'. Made by Suzuki. What were they used for? We don't know. There is very little information to be found online about this curiosity.
Soniccouture user Josh Prager got in touch with us about them - he'd had them for about ten years, and thought it might be a good idea if we record them. So we did.
Recorded in stereo with 5 round robins per note, the Kontakt instrument doesn't sound as silly as the name might suggest. Roll off the attack, lower the filter cutoff and you've got an atmospheric horn-pad synth instrument. Our custom KSP interface adds controls to increase the number of kazoos in the 'section', with options for adding pitch instability and variable note-off levels.
