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Trip-hop
tips and tricks | Drumbeat tips 2
(from The Dub Scrolls website and Looperman.com-- similar tips but the
Dub Scrolls tips are credited)
dub
scrolls website tips
Creating a Jungle break beat: Transpose a sampled
hiphop drumloop (old school, not the timbaland variety!) a few notes above
normal pitch and you will get something like a basic jungle beat. Cut
the loop into pieces beginning on bassdrums or snares and rearrange those
bits. That's how many Drum&Bass loops are created. Combine this with
single drum hits from the sequencer if the result isn't punchy enough.
Creating a Jungle break beat pt.2: Use Recycle from Steinberg for cutting
out the sounds not only from drumloops. Take care of the shuffle on hiphop-loops.
Up-pitching to jungle isn´t groovy with swingloops.
Replace the bassdrums or other sounds by equalizing and adding new sounds.
Don´t use to much compression on drum-loops. It´s better to
compress the sounds one by one.
Submitted by Lone from http://www.sativa-sounds.de
For Trip Hop beats, do the opposite of jungle: Take a hip-hop beat, slow
it down a few notes, cut it up. Try putting some dub effects on it (echo,
reverb,delay) for even more strangeness. Try boosting low frequencies.
Submitted by Milkman Dan from Mindfields
Take your drum loop and separate it into two loops, one with all the frequencies
over 1khz and the other with all the frequencies below, it's really simple
but you can boost the low end without loosing the crispy treble and make
the high end grimey without making the bass muddy.
Submitted by Luke aka Lord Nelson
Timestretch a drum loop to 150% using a sampler or hard disk recording
and combine it with the original loop. The original loop will be repeated
three times while the stretched one loops just two times. The outcome
will be pretty mad so use a rather empty and straight loop to start with.
Crossfading two drumloops: Program your sampler so that two drumloops
of equal BPM count are started by pressing the same key. Use an LFO to
modulate the volume of the two loops. Apply inverse modulation for one
loop so that this loop is silent when the other one is at maximum volume
and vice versa. This method is great for making background loops and percussion
lines more lively. Try also modulating the frequency of a low pass filter
instead of volume. This method can also be used for lead sounds.
Submitted by Dan D.N.A. (Skrupel, Bio Bonsai)
Ringmodulators sound very unique on drumloops. (There are ring-modulator
plug-ins that can be used in wave editing software.)
Connect a dictaphone up to the mixing desk and run the drums through it
while tweaking the eq and distortion. Then record the result into your
sampler and layer it with the original loop or else use it on its own.
The dictaphone adds a nice compression and really can warm up lifeless
sounding loops.
Submitted by Ronan aka "Nematod"
"For really mad results , use a reversed version of a drum loop to
trigger a noise gate on the original ,use this for a pumpin' rhythmic
loop."
Submitted by the Nematod
"Make an arpeggio with some synth or other. Then run that midi data
to a drum machine or sampler with un-pitched sounds on each key. Hey presto!
Unusual drum parts ahoy!"
Submitted by Chuffy
"These are some drum tips to get the heaviest dub sound possible...
use a shamois (that thin leather thing they use to dry cars) on your snare
drum and tape it down. also, for a thundering bass drum tape a quarter
where the bass drum mallet strikes the head. wooden mallets work the best
(this is coming straight from SCIENTIST) finally, make sure the toms are
as dead as possible."
Submitted by DubJackpot
Here's a tip which might seem very obvious: Learn how to play drums; anything
goes: rock drumming, african drumming , percussion ,banging a tambourine
or shakers, anything , it will improve your timing and sense of rhythm
NO END , and as a result you can program more complex drum loops and maybe
even record your own drumming too.
Submitted by Nematod
looperman.com's tips
(1)
Transpose a sampled hiphop drumloop (old school, not the timbaland variety!)
a few notes above normal pitch and you will get something like a basic
jungle beat. Cut the loop into pieces beginning on bassdrums or snares
and rearrange those bits. That's how many Drum&Bass loops are created.
Combine this with single drum hits from the sequencer if the result isn't
punchy enough.
(2)
For Trip Hop beats, do the opposite of jungle: Take a hip-hop beat, slow
it down a few notes, cut it up. Try putting some dub effects on it (echo,
reverb,delay) for even more strangeness. Try boosting low frequencies.
(3) Timestretch a drum loop to 150% using
a sampler or hard disk recording and combine it with the original loop.
The original loop will be repeated three times while the stretched one
loops just two times. The outcome will be pretty mad so use a rather empty
and straight loop to start with.
(4)
Crossfading two drumloops:Program your sampler so that two drumloops of
equal BPM count are started by pressing the same key. Use an LFO to modulate
the volume of the two loops. Apply inverse modulation for one loop so
that this loop is silent when the other one is at maximum volume and vice
versa. This method is great for making background loops and percussion
lines more lively. Try also modulating the frequency of a low pass filter
instead of volume. This method can also be used for lead sounds.
(5)
Ringmodulators sound very unique on drumloops. (There are ring-modulator
plug-ins that can be used in wave editing software.)
(6)
Connect a dictaphone up to the mixing desk and run the drums through it
while tweaking the eq and distortion. Then record the result into your
sampler and layer it with the original loop or else use it on its own.
The dictaphone adds a nice compression and really can warm up lifeless
sounding loops.
(7)
"for really mad results , use a reversed version of a drum loop to
trigger a noise gate on the original ,use this for a pumpin' rhythmic
loop."
(8) "Make an arpeggio with some synth
or other. Then run that midi data to a drum machine or sampler with un-pitched
sounds on each key. Hey presto! Unusual drum parts ahoy!"
(9) "These are some drum tips to get
the heaviest dub sound possible... use a shamois (that thin leather thing
they use to dry cars) on your snare drum and tape it down. also, for a
thundering bass drum tape a quarter where the bass drum mallet strikes
the head. wooden mallets work the best (this is coming straight from SCIENTIST)
finally, make sure the toms are as dead as possible."
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