r/audioengineering • u/armeniandestroyer • 12h ago
Is this kazoo players faking their kazoo sounds?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZBFM1vLzK00
I tried the exact same kazoos and it is damn near impossible to not get that generic cracked sound at those volumes. what do you think is happening here?
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u/armeniandestroyer 12h ago
yeah thanks everyone for confirming my suspicions. I thought maybe I suck at kazoo lol.
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u/VoceDiDio 12h ago
How does one suck at kazoo??
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u/armeniandestroyer 11h ago
not getting a trumpet sound out of it /s
joke aside, you can get quite a smooth sound replacing the membrane and some mouth techniques. not to this degree as I've seen6
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u/RadicallyMeta 6h ago
You just put your lips together and blow.
No really. You want to hum into the kazoo instead of blow, and some people don't know that.
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u/VoceDiDio 4h ago
"You know how to kazoo, don't you Steve?" (Would've been a much funnier movie that way!!)
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u/KS2Problema 11h ago
Lol!
Don't suck. Don't blow. Hum.
Very difficult for me to believe these folks expected anyone to take this for real; it seems drenched in intentionl irony/whimsy.
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u/WhatIsInternets 3h ago
This seems like some kind of joke video where they are taking a video game soundtrack or some traditional song and pretending to make it on found objects. Maybe I'm wrong.
Looking at the rest of their channel I think that's what's going on though. For example I don't think we're supposed to believe the lady is shredding a perfect koto line on a badminton racquet.
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u/Eighty6er 12h ago
100% fake