DSF Q&A Sessions 6 : Distance

distance · Post by **distance** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 10:14 pm

Toni wrote:Big Ups Distance...!!

You blates seem to take influence from the metal/hardcore genre... why do you think that metal influences work so well in dubstep? Is it just the pure filth factor? Or is it about the energy? Or plain and simply just about the geeeetars? I'd like to hear your views on what you think the connection is....if anything...please

Ta!

I dont know why it works in dubstep and I dont think it always does. I never deliberately put those elements in my beats it just comes out naturally. there is are definitely similarities in regards to energy and groove. Walk by Pantera could quite easily be a dubstep tune, even some early Korn stuff.

distance · Post by **distance** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 10:17 pm

The_Dza88 wrote:Out of the tunes you start, how many of them get finish?

and out the ones you get finished how many of them do you give out/release/do notthing with?

About 8 out of 10 tunes I will finish.

Im quite bad when it comes to giving out beats, I only give them out to a handful of djs. Pretty much all the tunes I have written have been released.

distance · Post by **distance** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 10:19 pm

Whineo wrote:
Distance wrote:I would bring back Pantera.
Pantera - Walk (Distance Remix)
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..on that note - are there any tunes/artists you would like to remix?

Would love to remix a metal bands tunes, just to see what happens, or to work with one.

distance · Post by **distance** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 10:23 pm

BEN? wrote:what are your views on UK garage, Grime, Funky ?

I liked Grime in the early days when it was called 8bar, before the mcs got too involved, then it went down hill in my opinion and the production quality got so bad. I dont know enough about Funky to comment. I liked Old school uk Garage not feeling the new bassline stuff.

distance · Post by **distance** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 10:25 pm

bandshell wrote:Do you prefer to produce on headphones or monitors?

What effects and processes do you go through with the percussive elements of the track once you have the pattern down?

Monitors all the way, probably the most important thing you will buy in regards to studio equipment.

distance · Post by **distance** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 10:29 pm

DeficitDubs wrote:nice! massive respect distance, one of my favorite producer.

whats your favorit distortion plug ins?
how did u design that metal/distorted bass in V/Victim support?

Cubase has an amp simulator that I use quite a lot. NI guitar Rig is also sick.

I made a patch in Albino, I think I had an LFO triggering the cutt off to give it some movement. I may have put it through a chorus effect and obviously had some distortion .

distance · Post by **distance** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 10:36 pm

Jibba wrote:What do you think about Reason? Have you ever used it or was it never a question of going elsewhere once finding Cubase?

What would you consider as basic essentials for a studio ie the bare minimum for making tracks on a budget?

Cheers

I have never used Reason, been using Cubase pretty much from the beginning. Reason is limited in the way that you cant have VST's.

There are some vst's I couldnt work without so Reason wouldnt work for me. That isnt to say you cant make great tunes on it, you got to use whats right for you

PC, fruity loops, Fostex pm1 monitors. should be enough

distance · Post by **distance** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 10:38 pm

Brisance wrote:How do you go about mixdowns? Do you mix at the end or mix as you go?

Is that a comb filter I smell in night visionäs bass?

I Mix along the way.

No special filters in the Night vision, jut the right use of effects.

rohan · Post by **rohan** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 2:15 am

Big up on the Q&A, your music has been an inspiration.

Q: When you're writing one of your main synth riffs, do you typically jam it out on your guitar along to the track, and then transcribe it into cubase, or write with your midi keyboard?

deadly_habit · Post by **deadly_habit** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 3:29 am

armour - iron man or venetian snares - black sabbath are in need of some distance remixes
who's palms need to get greased to make it happen?

lowpass · Post by **lowpass** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 8:16 am

Deadly Habit wrote:armour - iron man or venetian snares - black sabbath are in need of some distance remixes
who's palms need to get greased to make it happen?

Wouldn't that be Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath needs a remix?

deadly_habit · Post by **deadly_habit** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 11:28 am

Lowpass wrote:
Deadly Habit wrote:armour - iron man or venetian snares - black sabbath are in need of some distance remixes
who's palms need to get greased to make it happen?

Wouldn't that be Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath needs a remix?

nah

dj vision · Post by **dj vision** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 1:11 am

Lowpass wrote:
Deadly Habit wrote:armour - iron man or venetian snares - black sabbath are in need of some distance remixes
who's palms need to get greased to make it happen?

Wouldn't that be Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath needs a remix?

Definitely not, any music Venetian Snares touches is being done a favor, haha, hes that amazing

filter dready · Post by **filter dready** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 1:31 am

big up distance!!

-do you know whether it is common in dubstep to sample synths and make basses out of them in the sampler-or is it generally straight from the synth?

cheers

pdomino · Post by **pdomino** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 3:13 pm

Big ups and thanks to Distance for this session.
Please note the thread will stay open and is up to the producer to carry on replying or not as the case may well be.

spherix · Post by **spherix** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 5:26 am

dj vision wrote:The Night Vision and Memory Loss basslines are my favorite basslines period in all music ever, lol

do you have any other tunes that have basslines like this? and any way you could explain a little more about them other than using albino?

lol i understand that you dont wanna say much, but all i can gather about it is that its got both high pass and low pass filters, and a phaser

open albino and start with the patch chord bp trancion1 and its night vision from then on in (if you want to remake the track play F, G, G# and add a few octaves + distortion + filter, k.

planetshift · Post by **planetshift** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 8:09 am

Can I do a dubstep remix of one of your metal tunes?

I've been working on a song called "Metalstep" which is comprised of samples from over 10 different metal songs by different bands. If there's a moment in a pantera song you'd have me snatch, what'd it be?

CHUNK · Post by **CHUNK** » Sun Jan 03, 2010 12:19 am

A fat man leading a group of people out of a cave on a coast is stuck in the mouth of that cave. In a short time high tide will be upon them, and unless he is unstuck, they will all be drowned except the fat man, whose head is out of the cave. [But, fortunately, or unfortunately, someone has with him a stick of dynamite.] There seems no way to get the fat man loose without using [that] dynamite which will inevitably kill him; but if they do not use it everyone will drown. What should they do?[/quote]

......Tell the fat man that your about to blow him up with the dynamite,he'll shit himself thin in a crack.Then he will be able to wriggle free.

DZA · Post by **DZA** » Sun Jan 03, 2010 12:20 am

WHAT!?!?!?!

rapsag111 · Post by **rapsag111** » Sun Jan 03, 2010 1:27 am

Well at least he bumped this thread to the top, it was a good read

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