harddance track with techno elements

[Mr_Happy]

named as such because its my 1st production in fruity loops

 

http://www.mangafish.net/choons/project1.mp3

 

all feedback welcome - i'm thick skinned (or just thick - take your pick)

[LiamStyles]

some nice wee rythmns goin there dude, but your percussion and kick are weak. Are you using the sounds from fruity? If so they are dyer, u need samples of kicks etc instead.

 

this is a trap that quite a few people would fall into when using fruity I would imagine. Maybe this is what LTM is getting at? Too many folk just using the built in sounds?

 

But keep at it dude

[Guest]

the percussion are from fruity as i have next to no percussion samples

i *think* i took the kick drum from somewhere else though

 

in what way are they weak?

[Guest]

Ah, i think i've worked it out.

 

i'm still to fine tune some of samples witht he eq's. if i cant get the kcik and percussion more punchier with the equ's then i'll look at finding new samples

[LiquidEyes]

QUOTE (Mr_Happy @ Jun 17 2004, 10:41)

if i cant get the kcik and percussion more punchier with the equ's then i'll look at finding new samples

Trust me, get better samples. It's very easy to end up 'polishing a turd' when trying to make individual samples sound the way you like.

 

Better to find a sound which is bloody good to start with, then fine-tune away to your heart's content.

 

In particular, it's tricky to make a mediocre house kick sound into a good house kick sound -- it's got to have the write 'oomph' in it to start with, so that you can bring it out with the EQ/compression/etc.

[Guest]

hopefully they shouldnt take much work though as i've done little to no eq'ing so far and cirtinally havnt compressed the percussion/drums yet either

 

LE: where did you get your percussion samples from? would you beable to knock up a cd with some that you think i'd like?

[LiquidEyes]

I will see what I can do, but why not just sample kicks and hihats off records?

It's usually a piece of piss to isolate some drum samples in the intro of a record, where there's very little else going on.

[Tony P]

QUOTE (LiquidEyes @ Jun 17 2004, 15:30)

I will see what I can do, but why not just sample kicks and hihats off records? It's usually a piece of piss to isolate some drum samples in the intro of a record, where there's very little else going on.

thats what i've been doing, actually i've been spending more time extracting samples than i have been actually using them.

 

getting a good little collection thou.

 

i've made part of my first tune and i'm pleased to say that i haven't used any samples from fruity loops,. still don't sound great thou, but it's getting there

[Guest]

to be honnest my setup isnt good enough to rip the samples as 'clean' as i would like.

 

in an ideal world i would love to beable to produce my own kick drums and percussion but i'm not 100% how i would go about this

 

 

btw tony - have you had chance to listen to my tune? i am interested to hear your input as we're both around the same level of experence

[LiquidEyes]

QUOTE (Mr_Happy @ Jun 17 2004, 16:16)

to be honnest my setup isnt good enough to rip the samples as 'clean' as i would like.

What do you mean? Just plug your mixer into your line-in. The quality should be near-perfect.

 

Mate, no fucker makes their own kick drums (except in maybe electro, or very 'lo-fi' techno).

[Guest]

QUOTE (LiquidEyes @ Jun 17 2004, 17:09)

QUOTE (Mr_Happy @ Jun 17 2004, 16:16) to be honnest my setup isnt good enough to rip the samples as 'clean' as i would like. What do you mean? Just plug your mixer into your line-in. The quality should be near-perfect. I have a cheep mixer and soundcard so theres lots of noice in my recordings. its passable for mixes, but i'm not sure i would want that sort of quality for samples   QUOTE Mate, no fucker makes their own kick drums (except in maybe electro, or very 'lo-fi' techno).   its more for a personal sence of achievement rather than anything else. i'm awkward i know

[tommy]

Nice tune Happy. Agree with what's been said. Sound like it could do with a bit of an 'Ecstasy' vocal in it aswell.

[Guest]

i'm not a big fan of vocals

[ChrisT]

QUOTE (Mr_Happy @ Jun 17 2004, 17:32)

QUOTE (LiquidEyes @ Jun 17 2004, 17:09) QUOTE (Mr_Happy @ Jun 17 2004, 16:16) to be honnest my setup isnt good enough to rip the samples as 'clean' as i would like. What do you mean? Just plug your mixer into your line-in. The quality should be near-perfect. I have a cheep mixer and soundcard so theres lots of noice in my recordings. its passable for mixes, but i'm not sure i would want that sort of quality for samples   QUOTE Mate, no fucker makes their own kick drums (except in maybe electro, or very 'lo-fi' techno).   its more for a personal sence of achievement rather than anything else. i'm awkward i know Use CD's

[Guest]

anyway, back on topic....