How to create this water like sounding reverb used in Autechre - Pir

It's on the drums during the whole song:

https://youtu.be/q5XJhzPwxmg

I think it's spectral smearing - quite what program they used I'm not sure but you can get things that reduce/smear the FFT blocks to make it sound all watery ....

why couldnt it be convolution using a sample of dropping a stone into a pond?

Actually that's a bloody excellent suggestion - nice one :)

  On 8/11/2015 at 6:43 PM, skibby said:

why couldnt it be convolution using a sample of dropping a stone into a pond?

Yeah, sounds like a water splash recording used as an impulse response

ha! thanks for the suggestion, try this sample, it sounds great when used with breaks. Very Autechre: http://www.freesound.org/people/jorickhoofd/sounds/160119/

Wow I never knew about impulse responses. I think this is exactly what I've been looking for. So can you use anything as an impulse response? Is it basically a morphing of two sounds?

doesn't sound like a water splash being used as an impulse response to me, it just sounds like a cutup sample that might have involved water splashing and then some FFT reduction after. Impulse responses of water usually end up sounding pretty different when ive tried it. During this period Autechre was still cutting up a lot of field recordings and then running them through effects to give them more of an electronic feel.

  On 8/11/2015 at 8:53 PM, ceiling said:

Wow I never knew about impulse responses. I think this is exactly what I've been looking for. So can you use anything as an impulse response? Is it basically a morphing of two sounds?

in theory its the morphing of 2 sounds but the results are usually more textural .It works great for reverbs and real spaces.

Do you reckon impulse response was used on the tablas in flex/perc 6#?

sounds like fft manipulation in max/msp, or soundhack spectral plugins - not sure if the latter were around in 99 tho. i forget if grm tools had a spectral plug at the time?

or - track is convolved w watersports field recordings for aural golden showers effect.

keep in mind also that even noise put through FFT filtering can sound like water sloshing, so it could just be some glitchy percussion with no water splashing samples used

  On 8/11/2015 at 6:03 PM, mcbpete said:

I think it's spectral smearing - quite what program they used I'm not sure but you can get things that reduce/smear the FFT blocks to make it sound all watery ....

edit again, references:

http://8-bitrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/abstracterisk

http://8-bitrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/ert-a-jse

these were both made by applying FFT/spectral distortion/filtering/smearing effects to breakbeats in Buzz. I don't mean to keep posting links to my own stuff in these threads but I was pretty obsessed with that sound about 14 years ago!