Heres something ive always excited about..

[legend4ry]

So, as i'm sure we all know electronic music producers and band-centered music producer both have different rulesets, techniques and ways to get what they want.have you tried to mimic any processing from rock sounds (for example) within your EDM productions?

I'm very much interested at the prospect of trying stuff like this but alas haven't gotten any amazing results (even with using my brand spanking new copy of Amplitube!) but I am gunna keep trying!

[upstateface]

Guitar pedals are the shit.

[nowaysj]

Was just going through grips of old cassettes. The transient response on analog tape is just insane. It sounds so good. Granted, these tapes where AWASH is hiss, but still, just that front edge of things sounds soooooo good.

Don't know what this means. I think it means, I'd like to be recording to a 24 track, but, you know, I've got to come up with some good music first.

[jakerobert]

its certainly a cool idea. let me know if stuff turns out!

[fhsueh]

re-amping and using guitar pedals as send effects is a great way to add some sonic originality.

once ran a vocal out to a Boss delay pedal as a send, and swear it sounded better than my Cubase reverb. though some might say it's because it's 16bit after all.

in my sig tune, i'm playing guitar through a Boss DS-1 and a delay pedal i built. no amp, but running from pedals to mixer to compressor and into my interface.

not sure if there's a ton of rock-related processing that hasn't already been adopted by EDM. but mostly i'd recommend experimenting by sourcing sounds from otb, through whatever outboard you have, or routing from itb to tap them.

[Sharmaji]

i'll mic my monitors quite often.

in the mixdown stage, almost everything hits hardware, even if it's just to get 5db of gain thru a mic pre and get some soft clipping happening.

[deadly_habit]

i'll mic my monitors quite often.

in the mixdown stage, almost everything hits hardware, even if it's just to get 5db of gain thru a mic pre and get some soft clipping happening.

yea i've been getting in the habit of doing this
i need to get a second mic pre and some clip on drum mic gooseneck thingies though

[Sharmaji]

i just mic'em from where my head's at--- either ribbons in blumlein or SDC's in x-y usually does the trick.

[deadly_habit]

yea gonna have to experiment myself. you know me heh

[tripwire22]

ask distance lol

[back2onett]

sometimes run my leads and basses (except sub) through my Trace Elliot amp, everything else goes through a pioneer amp

[Pedro Sánchez]

Daft Punk were on this hard. Guitar Samples through vocoders, Vocals through Dist pedals, Synths through Wah-Wah pedals.

[wirez]

I've been working closely with a band lately producing for them, but not in a sense of how their music should sound as their music, as a sense of making their music work with mine as a hybrid (at their discretion). They're a pretty heavy metal/punk band too so it's quite a challenge. But I've had control over everything so far from playing style to recording to make it work with my sort of track.

But other than that, I usually pick out very slight things from rock music or whatever and incorporate it into mine, such as drum styles with toms in breakdowns, or the use of brushes on drums instead of sticks to help give a more organic feel to tracks.

[deadly_habit]

incorporating normal recording methods and traditional instrument fxs and techniques into edm and vice versa always yields great results. why i encourage people to learn all they can about both.

[nowaysj]

In dnb and other forms of edm, I can get down with acoustical instruments as source, but for dubstep, I just cannot stand any sort of actual instrument sound in the mix. They always stick out like a sore thumb to me. For some reason it's like the sounds have to by synthetic to sound right. Maybe with the exception of hand percussion.

[deadly_habit]

In dnb and other forms of edm, I can get down with acoustical instruments as source, but for dubstep, I just cannot stand any sort of actual instrument sound in the mix. They always stick out like a sore thumb to me. For some reason it's like the sounds have to by synthetic to sound right. Maybe with the exception of hand percussion.

there is def ways to make organic sounding stuff using real instruments and samples of em
egoless def is a great example
or even back when with me

[deadly_habit]

In dnb and other forms of edm, I can get down with acoustical instruments as source, but for dubstep, I just cannot stand any sort of actual instrument sound in the mix. They always stick out like a sore thumb to me. For some reason it's like the sounds have to by synthetic to sound right. Maybe with the exception of hand percussion.

there is def ways to make organic sounding stuff using real instruments and samples of em
egoless def is a great example
or even back when with me

[ResetTheAtari]

I plug in my guitar and try coming up with melodies that way sometimes, but I suck ass at guitar.

[deadly_habit]

I plug in my guitar and try coming up with melodies that way sometimes, but I suck ass at guitar.

heh i'm pawning my acoustic for food and money
i suck at guitar

[wirez]

I plug in my guitar and try coming up with melodies that way sometimes, but I suck ass at guitar.

heh i'm pawning my acoustic for food and money
i suck at guitar

Food/money... Music...

Music.