that dnb sound....

[hasezwei]

...that's neither jungle nor dnb but something in between yknow?
atmospheric pads, really really sparse and low sub, and most importantly shitloads of drums.
kinda post-photek




(loving the reese in that one)

wot do u call it? and more importantly, does anyone here make that kinda stuff? i've been trying time and time again but no matter what i produce it always sounds too... 2012? dont know how to describe it but i guess my mixdown approach is a different one.

[hasezwei]

i also wonder how people processed their breaks in that era. i suppose its quite similar to how much effort people put into resampling basslines nowadays, surely there's more to it than eq and compression?

[deadly_habit]

drumfunk/choppage
2nd i'd classify as liquid
the last one is old tech step
and yes i love making this stuff

[hasezwei]

aight, reveal your secrets then!

checked your sc, the drums in 'backwater blues' remind me of an old no u-turn tune with a ghost in the shell sample in it (cant remember the name sadly i think it was by dj trace)
basically thats the shit im talking about, loving it.

edit: on a more serious note, i actually started out making music by chopping amens but that was just cutting and pasting pre-processed amens found on the internet and sampling some metal riffs. when i try and do some proper drum edits i just dont know where to start with the workflow, most .rex files are chopped in a way that requires me to place the single hits way off grid to sound any good which renders them pretty useless and chopping shit myself always leaves me with reverb tails muddying everything up.
its that balance between gritty and clean that im striving for.

[ARTFX]

Find yourself some clean breaks without reverb and chop those up.

[deadly_habit]

aight, reveal your secrets then!

checked your sc, the drums in 'backwater blues' remind me of an old no u-turn tune with a ghost in the shell sample in it (cant remember the name sadly i think it was by dj trace)
basically thats the shit im talking about, loving it.

edit: on a more serious note, i actually started out making music by chopping amens but that was just cutting and pasting pre-processed amens found on the internet and sampling some metal riffs. when i try and do some proper drum edits i just dont know where to start with the workflow, most .rex files are chopped in a way that requires me to place the single hits way off grid to sound any good which renders them pretty useless and chopping shit myself always leaves me with reverb tails muddying everything up.
its that balance between gritty and clean that im striving for.

it's a matter of thinking like a drummer, thats the best way to put it, you can quantize rex files and such and work on the grid (though off the grid works too), it's just a matter of arrangement and placing fills and such carefully
basically think of putting the same attention to drums that you would to a complicated modulated bassline etc

[Wikum]

they all sound like different styles. deadly habit was spot on. go listen to some paradox if you like drum funk though.

[wormcode]

Fanu the breakbeat ninja!
Grab his stuff http://www.fanumusic.com

[hasezwei]

Fanu the breakbeat ninja!
Grab his stuff http://www.fanumusic.com

wow

[mks]

...that's neither jungle nor dnb but something in between yknow?

It's kind of both but you def can't say it's not dnb.

I love this stuff too.

[deadly_habit]

fanu was actually giving away 2 of his lps (3 cds of material) on his soundcloud
may still be

[wormcode]

Yeah click the pic of his hand written note on his main page for the free albums.

Also since it's the production forum, here's some production Q&As we had with some of the big names of the drumfunk sound. Including the ones in the videos posted here:
Could have sworn Fanu did one, guess not... but I remember he did post a lot during The Grid's heyday.

Paradox/Alaska
Macc
Fracture & Neptune
Breakage (before dubstep)
ASC

[synthlf]

Could have sworn Fanu did one, guess not...

as far as i remember, Fanu did a unofficial q&a.

[wub]

Could have sworn Fanu did one, guess not...

as far as i remember, Fanu did a unofficial q&a.

There's an article on him a while back when he had a release - http://www.dogsonacid.com/showthread.ph ... de=article

[BloomingAudioLife]

[mks]

^^ That is not what we are talking about.