My next project will be along the lines of the Chemical Brothers' latest release. If anyone has any production tips/websites on creating this style of music, I'd appreciate it. I can handle creating the grooves (the "beat") and synth parts...more along the lines of getting the right drum sounds -- e.g., proper distortion, reverb on the drums (the "big").
Thanks!
Big Beat production tips?
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- KVRAF
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- 2139 posts since 15 Jul, 2003 from ex-NJ, PA
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- KVRAF
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- 2139 posts since 15 Jul, 2003 from ex-NJ, PA
Ok -- that's a start!CypherOne wrote:SuperCamelPhat does a good job on that sort of thing.
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- 4026 posts since 27 Jan, 2004
I was in a musicgear shop a while ago...
The aleged "Logic High-Preast" there said to me when I wanted to buy a samson optical compressor for just that kind of things:
"Listen, any good quality sofware you got easily sounds better than lower end hardware, Waves C1 for example is great!"
sooo, if you want gear, then just take your pick of software...technique? hm, sorry...All I can say is...get good dry drumsounds and put them thru a bucketload of comps/reverbs/filters eh...more newbie advice to follow
The aleged "Logic High-Preast" there said to me when I wanted to buy a samson optical compressor for just that kind of things:
"Listen, any good quality sofware you got easily sounds better than lower end hardware, Waves C1 for example is great!"
sooo, if you want gear, then just take your pick of software...technique? hm, sorry...All I can say is...get good dry drumsounds and put them thru a bucketload of comps/reverbs/filters eh...more newbie advice to follow
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- KVRAF
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- 2139 posts since 15 Jul, 2003 from ex-NJ, PA
I have StormDrum -- haven't used it in a project yet...I'm sure it'll be at the root of this one!
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- KVRAF
- 7936 posts since 18 Feb, 2003 from out there somewhere
The funny thing is that on the new Chemical Brothers album, most of the beats are actually quite flat sounding. Very compressed but hardly aggressive sounding.
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Stupid American Pig Stupid American Pig https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4753 - KVRAF
- 7065 posts since 25 Nov, 2002 from not sure
you need a 303.
seriously though, isnt most big beat stuff similar in construction to hip hop? you would jsut need a good sampler, maybe a beat slicer and some good synths. then maybe some filter sweep type efx and good compression. mebbe some lofi efx as well
seriously though, isnt most big beat stuff similar in construction to hip hop? you would jsut need a good sampler, maybe a beat slicer and some good synths. then maybe some filter sweep type efx and good compression. mebbe some lofi efx as well
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- KVRAF
- 2356 posts since 30 Sep, 2003 from Sunny Staffordshire
I like to layer elements of modern live drums with old breakbeats. That always seems to get me off to a good start with this type of music. Also, old guitar pedals and stuff are great, so if you have any old crunchy gear give that a try. I have this Sansamp pedal which makes a nice mess of breaks. Driven analog filters also work nice.
Other than that, just experiment with layering different types of stuff. There is always more than meets the eye (or ear!) with this type of music - if you could take those beats apart you'd probably find four or five different parts all adding a certain something.
But then again I heard vinyl was getting to be a dirty word around here, so to be safe I'd stick with the 303.
Other than that, just experiment with layering different types of stuff. There is always more than meets the eye (or ear!) with this type of music - if you could take those beats apart you'd probably find four or five different parts all adding a certain something.
But then again I heard vinyl was getting to be a dirty word around here, so to be safe I'd stick with the 303.
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- KVRAF
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- 2139 posts since 15 Jul, 2003 from ex-NJ, PA
Thanks for the tips.tee boy wrote: But then again I heard vinyl was getting to be a dirty word around here, so to be safe I'd stick with the 303.
*Now, about this '303,' which VST is the best?
*Please don't answer this question.
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uhm...Please don't answer what question? tarnce? fish?torhan wrote:Thanks for the tips.tee boy wrote: But then again I heard vinyl was getting to be a dirty word around here, so to be safe I'd stick with the 303.
*Now, about this '303,' which VST is the best?
*Please don't answer this question.
I'd go with mullets...
