----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Norman"
>Hey IIIIIIIIIIIIII Heya Dan >Nice post! Thx >Do you know the names of any tunes that were made like that? If i have any of them at home it would be cool to give them a listen. --- Couldn't tell you most of the names, I just listen'd and nodded to the tunes plus it was a long time and toooo many spliffs ago, but anything that sounds ruff and crunchy with clipping distortion, usually on snares and the bass with quiet and loud bits (Champion sound, Here come the drums). Nowadays its all about the production, eq'd, squished up with no dynamics, and has to have a mixable start, middle and end, back then it was evolving with hardly any rules at all, so anyone could create a tune and as long as it was 150-170 bpm with drums, bass and energy. I clearly remember being in some dark club with a head full of weed when Egyptian empire's "Horn track" dropped and I fell over, so I tried to make tunes that had that same effect instead of copying their style and sounding like them, its about feeling it, not about the eq on the hi hats. The first couple of tunes some artists put out were done cheaply (Doc Scott, Acen, Rufige cru, 4 hero, Origin unknown, Dead dread, Shy FX), as to be able to have the time you probably had to be on the dole and pay for your equipment (or teef it). Plus we nicked our samples off other tunes so they already had compression to start with. It's well known that Origin unknown's "Valley of the shadows" was made using the samples from the first Future music magazine cover disc and Mickey Finn's "ruff/some justice" was done on the Amiga using samples, so no compression there until mastering. Ignorence is bliss but knowledge can be a millstone around your neck and if you want to be noticed then you will have to break some of the rules that are present in DnB today, as the noticeable artists do, so bringing a new sound to the scene. One of those rules to be broken is heavy compression on everything, leave something for the mastering engineer to process, they are much better than you are at mastering. It's up to you how you make your tunes, but I am relying on you all to keep the scene alive coz I did my bit and seeing my old tunes being swapped on kazza makes me think I made a little contribution to DnB. "Whats your style?, my style is the art of jumping on the bandwagon" --- Drum&Bass Arena Producers Discussion List http://www.breakbeat.co.uk You are currently subscribed to dnb-prod as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
