[Dream] N0.6 - I just can't think of a title.

[Doofus McFluoro]

>>> Tell me about these building bricks - are you using someone
elses samples?  I'd rather create my own.

With things like kicks and hatloops why reinvent the wheel everytime you
start a track? There are only a limited amount of permutations with this
anyway.... and you want to create a sound that is consistant from track to
track right?  Cmon I bet out of the mounds of samples you have on disk... I
bet you only use 5 or 6 different hats.... And I also when you find another
hat you think is nice, I bet that it ends up being pretty similar to one of
yopur other favorites.  Secondly... do you really write all your hat sounds
from scratch... nah.  The builting bricks are mine... Just when I finish
writting a hat loop for a tune I save it as audio to a loops directory.
Then I can use it again.  Things get moving a lot quicker this way.

>>>Maybe next weekend?

Fine by me bro... let me run it by the missus :)




On 3/10/07, Kudos <kudos.dream at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
> Doofus McFluoro wrote:
> > Hey Bud.. yeah I just got home from a stressfull job interview when I
> > wrote the last mail... I dont think I expressed myself in the way that
> > you deserved. Basicly projecting my emotions of frustration a bit
> > LOUD. Hey we talked about this last time we saw eachother. I see
> > you as having a lot of talent and i'd like you to develop it but I
> > just see you getting so bogged down with the technicalities.
> >
> Yeah, I have this thing called 'attention to detail', unfortunately I
> have no control over it, and it spends to much time on the wrong stuff.
> I guess I just lack the right knowledge - the technical stuff I'm
> actually very interested in, I just can't spend £££'s to go to college
> to learn about it properly.  I've got a habit of only learning what I
> think I need to know when I think I need to know it, I think.
>
> > The more I am learning the more I am realising how simple it should
> > be. You just have to start with good quality stuff.. bass line and
> > kick are primary.. they have to be crispy crisp. You can go a long way
> > with that... the hats have to ride above. Good samples... get ride of
> > any low grade shit you have floating about. thats why I want you to
> > come over... I have some stuff for you to take. I've got so much good
> > stuff since getting back to London... you wouldnt believe it. With
> > these building bricks the end product sounds so much better.  rather
> > than spending hours mixing naff kicks to try to get a good one... or
> > pissing about trying to find the one non wooly hat sample in a field
> > of fluffy cymbal sheep.
> >
> I must admit I spent a few hours the other evening trying to sort a kick
> out again!  Are you suggesting I go 32-bit?  What sample rate are you
> working in?  Tell me about these building bricks - are you using someone
> elses samples?  I'd rather create my own.
>
> Apart from ripped movie voices, and my percussion samples (which are
> crappy 16-bit 44.1kHz), every sound and effect I try to somehow make
> myself.  I've started using compression on several channels (and a
> limiter on master channel) now that I finally understand how they work.
> I still need to learn the rules behind compressing, particular what the
> limits should be for certain sounds or frequencies.  I am sticking to a
> rule, even if it is my own (honed from trial and error), in order to get
> a mix that sounds *okay* from where I'm standing.  This way I can get
> all my tracks mixed the same way.  I just need to tweak that rule a bit
> as well I suppose.
>
> > One you get that right the rest of the stuff you do will just sit on
> > top nicely (with a dab of e.q).
> >
> > You know all in all the tune wasnt bad.. it just lacks definition and
> > its all a bit monophonic.  But it rolls nicely and the breaks were in
> > the right place ensuring I didnt get bored even though its 8 mins
> > long. It just needs some ear baffling stuff to go with it.
> Baffling like extreme gating and panning on shrill screaming sounds?
>
> > So sorry if the previous e-mail was a bit blunt... we've been friends
> > so long and I forget this is a public forum. Come on over though and I
> > wil show you what I mean.  Bring your samples.
> >
> > Doof ;)-""
>
> Maybe next weekend?
>
> Olls
>
> _______________________________________________
> DreamWeavers mailing list
> DreamWeavers at enabled.com
> http://lists.enabled.com/mailman/listinfo/dreamweavers
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.enabled.com/pipermail/dreamweavers/attachments/20070310/32b547a0/attachment-0001.htm