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any of you guys ever mess around with the amen break

Post by topkat » Sat Jul 16, 2011 7:37 pm

i love jungle/drums and bass just as much as i love dubstep. I love the way artists such as dom and roland, omni trio, higher sense, skream (burning up/some magnetic man stuff), renegade and most of the moving shadow artists mess about with the amen break, they completely chop it up and turn it into some awesome ass stuff! i was just wondering if any of you guys ever tried sampling the amen break.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDGgqxanfE8 1:21 on

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Post by Basic A » Sat Jul 16, 2011 8:01 pm

http://soundcloud.com/teknicyde/teknicy ... on/s-GMTar > Secret link, but there you go, how to rape an amen for dumbies.
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Post by topkat » Sat Jul 16, 2011 8:52 pm

thanks

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Post by Quarl » Sat Jul 16, 2011 9:04 pm

Classic break. To be honest with you I'm kind of tired of it. It's always nice to hear it in the background of a jungle/dnb track ripping stuff up but that breaks had 15-20 years of rape. It's time to put that kit to bed. If I hear it in one more commercial about trucks or jet skis I'ma rip off my head :/



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Post by mmjdw » Sun Jul 17, 2011 9:25 am

never

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Re: any of you guys ever mess around with the amen break

Post by paravrais » Sun Jul 17, 2011 10:38 am

No. I've never heard of the amen break.

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Post by Quarl » Sun Jul 17, 2011 5:13 pm

mmjdw wrote:never
Best go back and watch that video I posted then. It's integral to EDM history. That and "Funky Drummer." Mawwwwww... homework.

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Re: any of you guys ever mess around with the amen break

Post by VirtualMark » Sun Jul 17, 2011 6:16 pm

wut is the aman brake?

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Post by hudson » Sun Jul 17, 2011 6:50 pm

Fuck, I thought I was the only one.

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Post by zerbaman » Sun Jul 17, 2011 11:50 pm

Throughout the tune in my sig. Pitch shifting, velocity bending amen chopping madness :)
Also my tune "Old Skool" Which is also a free download on my soundcloud page
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Re: any of you guys ever mess around with the amen break

Post by atticuh » Mon Jul 18, 2011 12:27 am

Breaks in general are good for any type of EDM. 8) So if you are a producer of EDM, its a very good idea to familiarize yourself with the amen. 8)
zerbaman wrote:Throughout the tune in my sig. Pitch shifting, velocity bending amen chopping madness :)
Also my tune "Old Skool" Which is also a free download on my soundcloud page
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Post by eddpaul » Mon Jul 18, 2011 6:18 am

I've tried playing around with the original Amen break, but I could never make that sounded as what what the Jungle producers have been able to make with it! Even though it's been overused to death and back I still like tracks that make good use of the break.

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Post by sunny_b_uk » Sat Aug 20, 2011 4:09 pm

lool some 30 year old in my music tech class was actually asking the tutor, what is an amen break? i hear it mentioned a lot but i dont know what it is.. yet he told me hes a drum & bass/darkstep producer :S thick shit lol

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Post by Jacob15728 » Sat Aug 20, 2011 4:49 pm

I've been using a couple layered breaks including the Amen in the track I'm working on. But I'm basically just using them as the filler between the kick and snare, instead of programming my own hat pattern. I lowpassed off the kicks and made the breaks pretty quiet.

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Post by Fused Productions » Sat Aug 20, 2011 5:15 pm

You can get some pretty good ideas from just listening through amen breaks.
Remember that more elements than the drums can be played in the rythms of the amenbreak. Don't know how to make it sound logical, but you can have your bass going with the same groove/rythm of an amen break without using the amen break itself. You can get som pretty decent results doing this.
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Post by deadly_habit » Sat Aug 20, 2011 5:28 pm

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Post by wub » Sat Aug 20, 2011 5:38 pm

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Post by mmjdw » Mon Aug 22, 2011 3:22 am

Quarl wrote:
mmjdw wrote:never
Best go back and watch that video I posted then. It's integral to EDM history. That and "Funky Drummer." Mawwwwww... homework.
of course i've used the amen break you gullible trollop

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Post by RandoRando » Mon Aug 22, 2011 5:47 am

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