TranceAddict Forums (www.tranceaddict.com/forums)
- Production Studio
-- Mr.Mystery's percussion tips - Part 1
Pages (7): « 1 [2] 3 4 5 6 7 »

Nice tutorial there Mr. Mystery, thanks for putting in the effort! I encourage you to share more of your knowledge with us, in tutorials so succinct.

I knew that somewhere beneath that mysterious facade you actually had a heart of gold

An excellent tutorial. Nice work Nik


Mef

Way to go Mystery. Thanks for the wonderful tutorial. Cheers on mate!
Be looking forward other tutorial of urs.

quote:

Originally posted by driftcontrol kiiti

it's kiitti but nice try ; )

hey Nik.

when you have some spare time, could you make some breakbeat tutorial? i wanne get more in to breaks hehe .

quote:

Originally posted by Massive84 hey Nik. when you have some spare time, could you make some breakbeat tutorial? i wanne get more in to breaks hehe .

Yeah that could be really cool, if Nik can find some spare time that is� I think even the more experienced artists among us can learn a thing or two from Niks knowledge of breakbeat percussion.

Yeah, I can do it. Though the basic principle is pretty much the same, with the exception that almost anything goes

and what about in .rsn format?

Thanks man! For the tips.....

pretty good stuff man. tho this is the easy part.

i find the hardest part to be getting the right sounds to start with.

quote:

Originally posted by tylerc pretty good stuff man. tho this is the easy part. i find the hardest part to be getting the right sounds to start with.

True. Another thing is that the sounds usually tend to sound different in the mix than by themselves. So you might have the best percussion loop you've ever made but you can't make it fit in the tune...

playing with the pitch-levels of the samples tends to help things 'match' eachother better.

even if you think the drums and the bassline allready sound good together, just try the different pitch levels, it might get even better

(or is this a well known 'trick' )

if you are doing complex breaks or perc patterns you have to tune them so they sound right. its also a good way of getting rid of clashing frequencies and phasing sounds by altering the pitch which changes the frequency range that instrument occupies.

ever tuned your percussion to fit the key of a song?

I find that even though the percussion isn't played(sequenced) in any key it still adds to the melody

quote:

Originally posted by pho mo ever tuned your percussion to fit the key of a song?

that's a requirement when you have bongo's and conga's in your track

percs do have a key. you have to tune drums. just listen to higher sense - cold fresh air (its jungle though) all the percs in that, particularly the kicks and snares have a very prominant tuning that change throughout the song as if played on a piano roll. actually quite alot of jungle is like, a symphony of drum samples. omni trio - renegade snares shows you hat you can do with tuning drums differently too. as the above post says, absolute requirement for things like tablas, bongos, toms etc. its just more noticeable when one of those is out of tune than say, a closed hihat.

This is probably the best purcussion tutorial I have ever read on these forums!

Can't wait for the next one!

Awesome tutorial, keep it coming!!

quote:

Originally posted by tylerc i find the hardest part to be getting the right sounds to start with.

Absolutely! I'm currently having the same problem and just haven't been able to get around it yet. I greatly envy Mr. Mystery for his ability to make drum loops so easily. I have a devil of a time with them. =/

Also, thank you very much Mr. Mystery for making this tutorial! I assure you that it will definitely help me... if I could just find the right percussion sounds to begin with. :P

quote:

Originally posted by PsycoEwok I greatly envy Mr. Mystery for his ability to make drum loops so easily.

Hehe... unfortunately creativity is kinda hard to teach

thnx for the good tutorial

sebasano

cant wait till next tutorial

You don't have a clue about percussion, Nik. I'm only joking, of course. I've no need for your tutorials, though, since I can just continuously recycle all the bits of percussion you've come up with for my productions during the last couple of years. Harhar!

Very good tutoial there, I'm stil a bit of a beginner and I've certainly found it helpful even though I don't really see perc as one of my weak points

Powered by: vBulletin
Copyright © 2000-2021, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.