One: Housequake Drum Sound I'm still trying to figure it out! You know the one that starts off the song "Whoomph, pack, Wuwomphpuhwhooph!" It's like a strong metallic like thump.

I think it may be actually a guitar...processed, possibly. I love that sound. It was played on a Simmons or something because I've listened closely on other songs and live stuff from Sign O The Times and it has a sensativity or dynamics to it. Perfect example is on It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Night, on the one of the breaks or towards the end it's used.

Two: The Madhouse clap This is another drum sound I haven't discovered yet. Its a cool longer splashier multi-clap sound not a Linn Drum sound at all.
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You hear it on recordings after 86 or '87. It's very prominent on Madhouse's 6 and on It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Night, DataBank, Good Love, it's really funky and sounds great with big reverb like on It and, I forget the song number, the Madhouse "Baby Doll House" song!

So anyone have ideas? Anyone other than sampling it, figured it out?!

"Kuwwaaahhh!"

My guess for the Housequake sound is the reverb from a tom or
kick played with a sampler (probably the Fairlight he had started using around this time). Listen to the drum track on the "Squirrel Meat" segue on the Black Album and that's just drums inserted into reverb. As for the claps, again, probably sampled and triggered.

housequake is a bunch of marching tom toms

clap sounds very roland sound canvass

cloud9mission said:

Hmmm. I have an older Roland SPD-8 and there's an 808-like clap on there that if you tweak it just right ALMOST sounds like it. And on the Fairlight, I have heard almost all the sounds that came from that and none have that Housequake Drum or the Madhouse Clap (as I like to call them).

On the Fairlight there is the DOG bark from La La La He He Heee and Madhouse era...and some other recognisable sounds but none of those.