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Yesterday I found a bag of mainly kid's percussion instruments and decided to record them on my phone and make a track out of them. It ended up being really fun and I learned quit a lot from it, think I'll try to do it again but without using instruments just pots, pans, cutlery etc.
I was wondering if anyone else here has tried making a track like this? If not then you should give it a try as it was really fun doing it and trying to get the sounds you want gets your mind working in a new way - for example I wanted some white noise so I recorded myself opening a bottle of Irn Bru which gave me the results I needed. I ended up making a track completely from the samples I recorded, no synthesis at all.I used my phone to record it all which I thought would be terrible quality but it didnt turn out so bad. The final result isnt the best thing ever made, mainly due to my lack of skill but I learned a lot about processing raw sounds.
If anyone does this post it in this thread as I'de like to hear it
(I know it is pretty shite but w/e I had fun, this is more a thread to to tell you guys about something fun you can do and maybe hear it done better if you do not self promotion)
Last edited by Brothulhu on Wed May 02, 2012 1:23 pm, edited 1 time in total.
A track I made utilized a lot of recorded sounds, but not the whole track. I often times beatbox for the backbeat on my drums and some hihats instead of break samples recently.
nowaysj wrote:Now get way more aggressive with the reverb, delay, eq/filters, dynamics, and glitch tools... looking at a Warp release.
But like seriously, do the song again man, like right on top of that one. Use that as the basis, and beef it way up. Can see it would sound awesome!
Yeah I actually already started that, I just wanted to make it still sound like what I recorded and as I said I had never tried processing raw sounds before. Trying to use these samples to learn as much as I can as it seems like a very useful skill
I'm always doing stuff like this, I got quite a few more like this in my massive tune hoard...
2 keyboards 1 computer
Sure_Fire wrote:By the way does anyone have the stems to make it bun dem? Missed the beatport comp and would very much like the ego booster of saying I remixed Skrillex.
I do foley and fx type stuff as a side type of job so yeah I've done this kind of stuff, but never made a whole tune out of it. Always just use bits and pieces and layered parts. I've recorded street musicians before, but felt too guilty about putting them in tracks so I just nicked one shots. They could have been whole tunes in themselves.
3za are you the one who posted that Paper Techno tune on the grid a few years ago?? I still have that one.
wormcode wrote:3za are you the one who posted that Paper Techno tune on the grid a few years ago?? I still have that one.
No...
But I still have your tune "Templar" that you made for the grid dubstep comp
2 keyboards 1 computer
Sure_Fire wrote:By the way does anyone have the stems to make it bun dem? Missed the beatport comp and would very much like the ego booster of saying I remixed Skrillex.
wormcode wrote:3za are you the one who posted that Paper Techno tune on the grid a few years ago?? I still have that one.
No...
But I still have your tune "Templar" that you made for the grid dubstep comp
Haha wow I totally forgot about that, must have been 5 years or so.
I made that on some knock-off hifi speakers some guy talked me into buying in some parking lot one day lol. Mixing skills and monitoring situation have improved 100 fold since. Maybe I should dig that project out but I'm almost afraid to hear it on actual monitors now haha.
BTW here is the Paper Techno thread. The download is offline, but he also posted up some useful and interesting techniques on manipulating the paper sounds into instruments: https://www.dogsonacid.com/showthread.php?t=586216
I found his email in the mp3 tag so I'll ask him if it's okay to upload it if anyone else wants it.
I am gonna hear this in my nightmares.
