From Marc 3 Poirier Sent Sun, Jun 7th 1998, 03:19
From Marc 3 Poirier Sent Sun, Jun 7th 1998, 03:19
> If you want to make Aphex style drum sounds these days, you do it in > a sound editor -- sample someone hitting a cardboard box, lop off the > mushy attack, and pitch it up an octave. Then use it in machine gun > drum rolls. > > Oh, and if you like all those goofy sound effects on Come 2 Daddy, get > a copy of SoundEdit16 and Soundhack and you're good to go. > > Also run a hihat sound through a reverb, get rid of everything > but the reverb tail, and then amplify it. > > Be sure to randomly pitch shift your drum hits for good measure. > > I aim next week to put my money where my mouth is and make the Aphex > Twin weirdstep track he never bothered to make. > Maybe have my kids > sing "I love to poopy in me diapers, mum!" and then loop it. & will it be one bit near as beautiful as any of the songs on "Come To Daddy" & give me any of the lovely feelings that that music does? Probably not. So you can dissect some of Richard James' sounds & come up with ways he may have used to create them. What's your point? It's not like anyone else can go back & retrace those steps, use those sounds, & then be guaranteed to have a song that anything near as good as that stuff. But I'm guessing that you don't really care for "Come To Daddy" & are trying to put it down. How is it, though, that you (& I've witnessed other people think this) think that if you can figure out how to make sounds that sound like another musician's sounds that that somehow that just totally debunks the music & the musician? You really should make your "Aphex Twin weirdstep" song so that you can realise that making a song worth listening to takes a lot more than putting a certain combination of sounds together. > Maybe have my kids sing "I love to poopy in me diapers, mum!" > and then loop it. Enough of this already! The man makes one track in which he tampers with the voices of people talking about shit on a microphone & now people are constantly making jokes about him doing nothing but farting in his songs & writing lyrics about poops. Seriously, listen to his 200-something other commercially available songs if you have such a problem with that one & you can remain safe from ever having to hear anything about excrement in any of his songs. Marc Poirier