Cathedral pipe organ. Pull all the stops.
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This is the answer. The entire cathedral is part of the instrument!
Low brass will rattle your bones if the musician pushes enough air. It's basically the sound of reality ripping in half.
...we need some symphonic metal that highlights full-power low brass - like it's literally the most metal sound an instrument can make. I mean, guitars are great and all, but BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!
My favorite by far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9WAH0ZaKTw
Oh FUCK YES! 2:06 and on is exactly what I'm talking about - you don't hear that in a classical setting super often, but when they really just empty their lungs into those things things, the sound it makes is incredible.
That would have been fucking awesome to see/hear/feel in concert.
Yeah, I love playing that on my TV at full volume 😄
A good handpan in a quiet room will, especially stainless steel ones.
Glasses filled with water you rub the rims of. Literally make sound through resonance.
Also just trying to hum/sing at the same pitch of an instrument or another person singing/humming will produce this effect. That's how I know I'm singing in the right key; you'll feel the resonant harmonics in your whole body. And it feels awesome! 😃
Synths with big unison lol
Bagpipes
Double bass. Electric guitar.
You can make a bass drum very resonant, but most drummers keep a kit bass fairly staccato. Especially with a double bass. Otherwise you’re going to sound like you’re doing a roll on a timpani.
I've usually seen "double bass" used to refer to the string instrument, also called the contrabass, upright bass, or just a bass.
Yep I meant double bass as instrument and not as technique.
True. I assumed they meant the drum since electric guitars tend to accompany drum sets with double bass.
Butt trumpet
Sitar and hurdy-gurdy both use drones to get this quality.
African drums.
Electric guitar into a full stack.
My acoustic guitar if I play it in the bathroom
bells
It's a pretty vague description, but it reminds me of a handpan drum, or vibraphone.
Anything can rattle your bones when in played loud enough, but if you're looking for a way to create the kind of sound that fills the room without being loud, try adding chorus, reverb and stereo delays.
I was playing around with such the other day, in making an effect chain that would catch the tail of a reverb and then amplify it into an endless delay loop where the entire sound is made from the effect of something that doesn't exist anymore.
This is primarily keyboards/synths but when I think of resonance, this is wonderful. Crank it up.
Didgeridoo
Mongolian throat
Tuba, French Horn, Carnyx, Timpani
marshal 1959a
Any instrument that has a lot of reverb will make you feel it all around you. For a joke-y answer (but not really because it's true), Meshuggah's live mix is so heavy yet crystal clear that you not only hear their music, you can also feel it in your bones.
I mean, it's really a matter of the quality of the instrument, and even moreso, of the talent and ability of the person playing it - that will make much more of a difference than the kind of instrument (set aside certain instruments like the triangle).