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visa
New member
what a cool thread.
keep em coming guys!
keep em coming guys!
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applesmasher
New member
*Get pissed at how suky you sound and smash studio to smitherenes while recording. Results may vary.
Velvet Elvis
Ahh humma humma humma
Take a really low sine wave from a tone generator (or a keyboard) and hook it up to a gate.... use the kick drum track direct out as the trigger for the gate...
Everytime the kick drum hits... the gate opens and you have instant mega bass.
This works well for adding punch to bass guitar too... set the gate to be mostly open... but when the kick drum hits, it will open the gate the rest of the way... making the bass guitar and the bass drum accent the exact same beats.
Velvet Elvis
Everytime the kick drum hits... the gate opens and you have instant mega bass.
This works well for adding punch to bass guitar too... set the gate to be mostly open... but when the kick drum hits, it will open the gate the rest of the way... making the bass guitar and the bass drum accent the exact same beats.
Velvet Elvis
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glynb
Balladeer
No drummer?
You have no drummer so you have to record your song along to a rhythm unit? So it sounds, crap...like a rhythm unit?
So using the sampled drum settings on your midi keyboard you 'track' each of the rhythm unit 'drums' in turn recording your manual drums onto a seaprate track - kick drum, snare, etc.
You can then add in some variation on rolls when you become more accomplished (takes a bit of practice) and end up with a recorded kit you can mix individualy. Of course you then mix out the rhythm unit. For hi hats try leaving in the original rhythm unit hihats but rtemove all the bass an mids and boost the hi's, virtualy eliminates the 'drums' just leaving the 'hihat' sound.
For the icing on the cake overdub maracass and or tambourine and you'll end up with something that sounds like you had a real drummer there (albeit a basic one!).
Why not just use midi you ask? Well this way puts in little imperfections which add the 'human touch' and don't sound so much like a mcahine, whilst keeping 99.9% perfect time!
Works for me anyway!
You have no drummer so you have to record your song along to a rhythm unit? So it sounds, crap...like a rhythm unit?
So using the sampled drum settings on your midi keyboard you 'track' each of the rhythm unit 'drums' in turn recording your manual drums onto a seaprate track - kick drum, snare, etc.
You can then add in some variation on rolls when you become more accomplished (takes a bit of practice) and end up with a recorded kit you can mix individualy. Of course you then mix out the rhythm unit. For hi hats try leaving in the original rhythm unit hihats but rtemove all the bass an mids and boost the hi's, virtualy eliminates the 'drums' just leaving the 'hihat' sound.
For the icing on the cake overdub maracass and or tambourine and you'll end up with something that sounds like you had a real drummer there (albeit a basic one!).
Why not just use midi you ask? Well this way puts in little imperfections which add the 'human touch' and don't sound so much like a mcahine, whilst keeping 99.9% perfect time!
Works for me anyway!
Track Rat
Just Your Average Sized Member
Lay a guitar amp/speaker box on its back and hang a mic from the ceiling above it so when it's still, it's centered over a speaker. When you start to record, swing the mic a bit and let it swing like a pendulum for a phasey kind of effect.
If you find yourself with a problem snare track and retracking isn't an option (or to augment a sample), lay a speaker on it's back and set a snare drum on it with the side you hit to the speaker, snares up. Send just the snare track out to the speaker and mic the snare side with a condensor. Mix with the existing snare track to taste. A guitar amp set up nasty is another good option on this setup too to add some attitude.
If you find yourself with a problem snare track and retracking isn't an option (or to augment a sample), lay a speaker on it's back and set a snare drum on it with the side you hit to the speaker, snares up. Send just the snare track out to the speaker and mic the snare side with a condensor. Mix with the existing snare track to taste. A guitar amp set up nasty is another good option on this setup too to add some attitude.
Track Rat
Just Your Average Sized Member
If you have D.I.'d bass tracks that you want to put some ass in, send the recorded bass track out to a bass amp and mic the cabinet. Mix with D.I. track to taste.
My favorite way to do bass though is to use a D.I. bass as a scratch track and when I do the over dub, I play the track through an amp/speaker loud enough to get the bass guitar to "light up", ya know what I mean? I record the line output from the head. This has all the definition of the direct send but still captures the growl that only a guitar in a room with a speaker pushing a lot of air can produce.
My favorite way to do bass though is to use a D.I. bass as a scratch track and when I do the over dub, I play the track through an amp/speaker loud enough to get the bass guitar to "light up", ya know what I mean? I record the line output from the head. This has all the definition of the direct send but still captures the growl that only a guitar in a room with a speaker pushing a lot of air can produce.
djc
Why so serious?
gorbyrun said:
I'll bet that's how Ween got that sound in "Mutilated Lips"
Always wondered how they did that.
Middleman
Professional Amateur
Record a vocal and guitar, reverse it, write a song around that. Always makes for some interesting tracks and melodys.