Blawan: Q&A

Sarah808 · Post by **Sarah808** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 12:53 am

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deconstruct · Post by **deconstruct** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 1:00 am

seriously need this

HighBot · Post by **HighBot** » Thu Oct 20, 2011 5:58 pm

deconstruct wrote:seriously need this

AJGR · Post by **AJGR** » Sat Oct 22, 2011 8:05 pm

i still rinse the shit out of iddy! love it.

Ldizzy · Post by **Ldizzy** » Wed Oct 26, 2011 3:35 pm

i made a blawan special on fm radio 2 weeks ago and i count a lot of my friends posting some of his stuff now... people who knew nothing but skrillex 2 weeks ago mahahahahah

karenn is bawss too

HighBot · Post by **HighBot** » Wed Dec 05, 2012 1:10 pm

Any chance of this happening?
People in this position always naturally want to keep their secrets to themselves.. but if it promotes better sounding music, why not?
It'll just make each individuals creative outputs execute and sound better.

Perej · Post by **Perej** » Wed Dec 05, 2012 2:08 pm

Wouldn't hold your breath for this one.

wolf89 · Post by **wolf89** » Wed Dec 05, 2012 7:53 pm

he currently uses (most obviously in the Karenn live sets) Dave smith Tempest and Sherman Filterbanks if people are still asking about stuff he uses.

Sarah808 · Post by **Sarah808** » Fri Dec 07, 2012 2:22 pm

This thread is still knocking around? haha. Yeh his live stuff is a lot different to his other productions. This his he she and she release doesn't sound to be analog at all and that was one of my favourites... His money, fuck me. The tracks have a real lo-fi quality to them, like he's lowpassed everything to a degree but not to make the overall tune sound degraded. any ideas how to achieve that heavy sound?

Perej · Post by **Perej** » Sat Dec 08, 2012 1:28 pm

Sarah808 wrote:This thread is still knocking around? haha. Yeh his live stuff is a lot different to his other productions. This his he she and she release doesn't sound to be analog at all and that was one of my favourites... His money, fuck me. The tracks have a real lo-fi quality to them, like he's lowpassed everything to a degree but not to make the overall tune sound degraded. any ideas how to achieve that heavy sound?

Well, I had a bit of success warping and layering drums then adding a vocoder to a vocal and automating that - made the vox sound very Blawan-ish. It's mostly the rhythm that's hard to get right.
Also - this has been mentioned millions of times but record some household items hitting things and mess around with pitch envelopes / filters / the soft shaper in the Ableton sampler.

Parallell compression is a must for thick drums, also download the soundtoys plugins and get the 'Decapitator' on your drum buss + a bit of redux on a send (only a little bit - objekt suggested this one and it works a treat).

skwiggo · Post by **skwiggo** » Sat Dec 08, 2012 5:34 pm

his karenn stuff with pariah is definitely analog/hardware based - both his live set and the tracks themselves, he confirmed this in an interview recently- http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1670

plus im pretty sure that the dave smith tempest has sampled waveform capabilities so he could easily still use sample based drums + analogue stuff together. i'm pretty sure he said he's using hardware/computer together too for his solo stuff in that same interview.

tbh though it doesnt really matter - you can definitely get a blawan esque sound from software by itself - it's just a wee bit harder i think. i think perej above^ has the right idea about what to do. the satson cm desk emulation you can get with computer music magazine cd can give you a crunchy low passed drum sound too IMO used sparingly on the drum bus.

wolf89 · Post by **wolf89** » Mon Dec 10, 2012 1:51 am

That's fairly true but I will say the most recent Karenn EP sounds so much like it's all hardware. I think you'd really struggle to do that in software.

William Brave · Post by **William Brave** » Mon Dec 10, 2012 1:52 pm

someone tell me why this guy is good. I cant for the life of me get into him and I have tried quite a bit. I really like Pariah and Pariah likes him, so I know he's good. What am I missing?

skimpi · Post by **skimpi** » Mon Dec 10, 2012 5:32 pm

William Brave wrote:someone tell me why this guy is good. I cant for the life of me get into him and I have tried quite a bit. I really like Pariah and Pariah likes him, so I know he's good. What am I missing?

LOL

fuck off then, just cos he is popular doesnt mean you have to like him, you dont have to like everything that is cool? just dont listen to him.

Or just wait till you actually get it bro

Perej · Post by **Perej** » Mon Dec 10, 2012 6:50 pm

skimpi wrote:
William Brave wrote:someone tell me why this guy is good. I cant for the life of me get into him and I have tried quite a bit. I really like Pariah and Pariah likes him, so I know he's good. What am I missing?
LOL

fuck off then, just cos he is popular doesnt mean you have to like him, you dont have to like everything that is cool? just dont listen to him.

Or just wait till you actually get it bro

Chill out

wolf89 · Post by **wolf89** » Mon Dec 10, 2012 8:05 pm

if you don't like blawan's recent output it must just be you don't like techno.

zerbaman · Post by **zerbaman** » Thu Dec 13, 2012 9:20 am

Techno ≠ Blawan Wolfie.

wolf89 · Post by **wolf89** » Fri Dec 14, 2012 10:52 am

No, however his recent output and dj sets is good and it's techno. I'm not really very sure how you could think it's shit if you like techno, even if you're not into any of the kinds of techno he's done I'd still be surprised to hear someone say he's shit.

Praya · Post by **Praya** » Fri Dec 14, 2012 3:26 pm

This from a recent interview:
"What sort of equipment have you been using?

Not one to blab on about equipment or even give too much away haha. But the latest thing i got was a Jomox Moon wind, Very nice step sequenced analog filter and effects box that sounds great when smashing some drums through it! "

Doesnt sound like the sorta guy to do a q & a, and probably the better for it.

Full interview here: https://bleep.com/stream/blawan+interview

Ldizzy · Post by **Ldizzy** » Tue Apr 02, 2013 8:44 am

the guy sounds like blawan.

started on ableton + izotope for mixing. now on a full analog rig. still sounds like blawan.

hes genius is aesthetic and rythms. not machines.

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