DSF Q&A Sessions 1: Breakage (closed)

thesis · Post by **thesis** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 11:10 am

How do you keep yourself motivated?

reso · Post by **reso** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 2:30 pm

breakage wrote:i went to the B.R.I.T

Just noticed this lol, gwan brit massive! Seems like quite a few peeps were brit heads.
When were you there? (sorry totally non production related question, i'm interested s'all)

dom · Post by **dom** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 3:49 pm

breakage wrote: studied audio engineering at south themes college for 3 years

I studied music production there too. was good

breakage · Post by **breakage** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 12:51 am

crytek wrote:Was it sort of a natural progression from dnb to dubstep? Are you turning away from the former and just strictly putting out dubstep tunes?

Do you have another album in the works?

Any major changes that happened to you since your last album?

going from d&b to dubstep was pretty easy, just a case of slowing down, once i got the hang of that it was simple... kinda
if anything its hard to juggle the two, which is what im finding out now... i make a few dubstep tunes and the d&b slips behind and vice versa

i would never turn my back on any genre, just add to the list

ive been working on my second album for a while now, all going well it should be ready to go by early june (i hope!)

a lot of major changes have gone on, some bad and a lot good, im a lot happier now i think and my music shows it (to an extent) but im not gonna go into too much private life stuff

breakage · Post by **breakage** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 12:56 am

thesis wrote:How do you keep yourself motivated?

im not sure, i just do it cos i still love to make music
if i go more than a couple of days without at least doing some sampling or something towards being creative i get very cranky lol

breakage · Post by **breakage** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 12:58 am

reso wrote:
breakage wrote:i went to the B.R.I.T

Just noticed this lol, gwan brit massive! Seems like quite a few peeps were brit heads.
When were you there? (sorry totally non production related question, i'm interested s'all)

i was there from 96 to 98 (i think)
i heard you went there too lol

pdomino · Post by **pdomino** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 10:33 am

Want to bigup Breakage for spending time answering the questions.
Have a list of other producers for forthcoming threads incl Stenchman, J.Sparrow, Reso, Kutz, Numbernin9 to name a few.
Patience

deadly_habit · Post by **deadly_habit** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 10:26 pm

just curious if you use the gold baby tape 808 pack at all for some of those killer subs

step correct · Post by **step correct** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 12:07 am

What's up man.. Has moving to LA/Cali influenced your music since living here? If so, what?? Gangster rap, palm trees, low riders, chrondo...etc?

altered state · Post by **altered state** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 1:31 am

Do you still get the same buss from releasing a tune as you did when you first put out a tune?

What about the satisfaction after completing a tune? Do you still feel awesome after or does that dwindle with time?

thinking · Post by **thinking** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 1:10 pm

breakage wrote:
djake wrote:i hoping this hasnt been asked yet, i did read through most of what has been asked and answered!

what advice have you got for up and coming/new producers?
best thing i could say is dont just send stuff out, wait... you want to wow dj's, other producers and labels straight off the bat

bigup, this is one of the most important pieces of advice you've shared, I hope people heed it.

what kind of biscuit are you into? Are you a chocolate hobnob man, or more of a crinkle crunch lover?

breakbait · Post by **breakbait** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 8:46 pm

Nice one for doing this Breakage, one of my favourite producers of dubstep and dnb.

Few questions

How do you program your drums in Logic? Do you do it all in audio regions or use Ultrabeat or another sampler?

Is the reverb on the woodblock sound in matter of facts from space designer?

Favourite breaks to use in dubstep?

breakage · Post by **breakage** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 5:28 am

nowaysj wrote:What will you be doing in 10 years?

How will you support yourself and your family?

POP MUSIC

breakage · Post by **breakage** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 5:29 am

Deadly Habit wrote:just curious if you use the gold baby tape 808 pack at all for some of those killer subs

nah, i just use the logic sampler or a sub i got from that old zero-g d&b sample cd

breakage · Post by **breakage** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 5:32 am

Step Correct wrote:What's up man.. Has moving to LA/Cali influenced your music since living here? If so, what?? Gangster rap, palm trees, low riders, chrondo...etc?

yeah man, i think my music has defiantly changed, im just not sure how yet lol
i think (from what ive been working on of late) its a lot more focused as i have all day to work with o distractions (no 1000 phone calls a day and what not, i dont even have a mobile phone lol)

breakage · Post by **breakage** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 5:34 am

Altered State wrote:Do you still get the same buss from releasing a tune as you did when you first put out a tune?

What about the satisfaction after completing a tune? Do you still feel awesome after or does that dwindle with time?

it still feels good, maybe not as immense as it used to but i still get all happy when i get a tune on vinyl or see people on forums bigging it up, or dj's playing my tunes
i dont think it'll ever "dwindle" and if it does, obviously im not really loving what im doing anymore... but like i said, i cant see it getting old

breakage · Post by **breakage** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 5:38 am

ThinKing wrote:
breakage wrote:
djake wrote:i hoping this hasnt been asked yet, i did read through most of what has been asked and answered!

what advice have you got for up and coming/new producers?
best thing i could say is dont just send stuff out, wait... you want to wow dj's, other producers and labels straight off the bat
bigup, this is one of the most important pieces of advice you've shared, I hope people heed it.

what kind of biscuit are you into? Are you a chocolate hobnob man, or more of a crinkle crunch lover?

hmmmm......
probably all about fox classics biscuits, tastes exactly the same as the bar, but theres more in a pack

as for cakes, the viennese swirl still hurts me... that and my mums apple cake is big (when she can actually be bothered to make me one)

breakage · Post by **breakage** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 5:43 am

BreakBait wrote:Nice one for doing this Breakage, one of my favourite producers of dubstep and dnb.

Few questions

How do you program your drums in Logic? Do you do it all in audio regions or use Ultrabeat or another sampler?

Is the reverb on the woodblock sound in matter of facts from space designer?

Favourite breaks to use in dubstep?

i do it in the sampler, do the breaks as rex files and the one shots as just one sound per channel... i try to keep everything midi cos i dont like the audio section of logic, whereas with cubase i was all about the audio but not so much the midi lol
i actually still dont really know how to use ultrabeat properly lol

most of my reverbs are from the space designer, to many of them can eat up your power, but they sound great!!
so thats a yes, more than likely

i always try to use a different break with each tune nowadays
generation was the worm and the gateman break, matter of facts was a disco break, rain was a couple of hip hop breaks, and together was from an 80's hip hop tune

breakbait · Post by **breakbait** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 6:38 am

breakage wrote:i do it in the sampler, do the breaks as rex files and the one shots as just one sound per channel... i try to keep everything midi cos i dont like the audio section of logic, whereas with cubase i was all about the audio but not so much the midi lol
i actually still dont really know how to use ultrabeat properly lol

Yer I was goin to say that I also came to logic from cubase on PC (analogic delay was a favourite of mine too) and did all my drums as audio because you can quantize the audio regions and it has the real time fades function that I found really useful.
When I started using Logic I did it in audio too but recently learnt how to use Ultrabeat properly. I like the eq, envelopes, filters for each individual hit and you can have multiple outputs from 1 ultrabeat.

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