Something fun to do

Brothulhu · Post by **Brothulhu** » Sat Apr 28, 2012 7:43 pm

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

This is what I made - Soundcloud

(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)

bferg333 · Post by **bferg333** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 10:16 pm

Erisol · Post by **Erisol** » Tue May 01, 2012 1:40 am

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 · Post by **nowaysj** » Tue May 01, 2012 8:04 pm

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!

Shum · Post by **Shum** » Tue May 01, 2012 9:49 pm

^ what he said.

Brothulhu · Post by **Brothulhu** » Tue May 01, 2012 11:25 pm

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

3za · Post by **3za** » Tue May 01, 2012 11:58 pm

Brothulhu wrote:If anyone does this post it in this thread as I'de like to hear it

Oldie...
Soundcloud

I'm always doing stuff like this, I got quite a few more like this in my massive tune hoard...

Brothulhu · Post by **Brothulhu** » Wed May 02, 2012 12:07 am

Dude that is awesome, definitely going to try out some more effects

dickman69 · Post by **dickman69** » Wed May 02, 2012 4:25 am

i made a tune based off of this guy that sells gyros on this corner near my old school

its old as shit

Soundcloud

jbcrazy · Post by **jbcrazy** » Wed May 02, 2012 4:37 am

Yes beef it up.

The little drum rhythm is hauntingly catchy.

Kind of like in a Chucky... or like an alive 'doll' kind of way.

It's way scarier than anything Borgore or Kill The Noise is putting out.

I am gonna hear this in my nightmares.

narcissus · Post by **narcissus** » Wed May 02, 2012 4:52 am

cool tunes guys!!

wormcode · Post by **wormcode** » Wed May 02, 2012 5:03 am

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.

3za · Post by **3za** » Wed May 02, 2012 4:56 pm

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

wormcode · Post by **wormcode** » Wed May 02, 2012 5:26 pm

3za wrote:
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.

Today · Post by **Today** » Wed May 02, 2012 5:28 pm

i downloaded it just to see what the filename was gonna be

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