From Jon Drukman Sent Fri, Jun 5th 1998, 00:25
From Jon Drukman Sent Fri, Jun 5th 1998, 00:25
chris wicks wrote: > > A few days ago, Jon Drukman posted this URL in response to the tracks > at www.m-nus.com (which weren't that great, imho... not bad, but not > great): http://sticky.bud.com/mo1.mp3... downloaded the track, and > it's fucking great... can I get any more info on this? Who's it by, > what's the name of the track, etc? Thanks! it's by me, it doesn't have a name yet because it's just a backing track that i'm gonna get mohammed to rap on (hence the working title: mo1) it is kinda formless and aimless because i was just throwing the sounds together for mohammed to get a feel. presumably when we put the vocals in there will be a more definite structure. i'll also probably do an instrumental mix. [tying back into the "how do you make music" thread... i wasn't sure i was going to mention all this but i thought someone might find it interesting. i know rob williams will. hi buddy!] the idea: we were hanging out at a show waiting to play and daum was spinning Alexander's Dark Band (that j. saul kane project i mentioned a little while back). i said "i'd like to hear more rappers use backing tracks like this." mohammed said "i'd be up for that" so i was inspired. the production: the drum loop is my buddy tim soete. i recorded an hour of him drumming and have been using the tape quite a bit. since my music is pretty drum-loop-oriented i think it's cool to have my own custom loops. i used the sonic decimator in hyperprism to give it that old skool emax 12-bit sampling quality, then i used L1 to fatten it up a bit, then i put it into the sampler, adding a pinch of k2000 waveshaper for extra grit. it's compressed again at the mixer. you can't have too much compression. most of the drum hits are doubled - the kick with a tr909 kick that is overdriven with the mixer's channel trim, the hats and snare with dr660 sounds (mixed low, just enough to give it a bit more presence). all the random synth bits are the nord lead. the string stabs are from a henry mancini record, off the audiomedia card into the pcm90 with a custom room i designed. i also put the stabs into the k2000, transposed them way down and used the amp ring mod to give them another pitch. they form a pseudo-bassline that's in there every once in a while. the other bassliney thing is a korg mono/poly sound that i sampled and transposed down. the mixer responds to midi so the snare dropping into the huge reverb is actually sequenced (just bump the relevant controller # up and quickly back down to zero.) writing it up makes it seem a lot more complicated than it is when you're actually doing it. np: eric b & rakim - follow the leader (yeeahhh... kickin' it old school style!) Jon Drukman xxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Am I eternal, or an eternalist?