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Limit
AKA:STEVE QUADRA

Registered: Feb 2004
Location: A State of Trance

help with making oldschool disco strings

K, I really can'r get this down and I'm not sure where to go now. What I want to do is make that string sound used in a lot of old disco tunes and used in a lot of diso house tracks too. I have lots of string sample cd's but I just can't seem to find any samples that work to even come close to that type of melody...the samples all sound like pads.
I just want to know how its put together and a sample cd that might help me.

samples could be heard in Armand Van Heldon's "You Dont Even Know Me"(main melody)

also in probably every disco tune from the 70's-80'sSample Here

Nov-26-2005 00:50 Canada

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RichieV
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Registered: Aug 2003
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sample cds are your best bet

Nov-26-2005 02:29 United States

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Freak
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Registered: Jul 2003
Location: On a plane probably...

Old disco strings were real strings played by real musicians.
Disco house unsurprisingly samples these originals... Stuff on the salsoul label is a goldmine for this (the salsoul orchestra actually released an album basically intended as a sample source not long ago).

The armand track you mention is sampled- the original strings are from Carrie Lucas - 'Dance With You'
Get crate digging my friend

Nov-26-2005 13:37 United States

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Limit
AKA:STEVE QUADRA

Registered: Feb 2004
Location: A State of Trance

sweet man thanks...I always wanted to know where that armand sample was from.

Thanks for the info.

Nov-26-2005 14:56 Canada

Limit
AKA:STEVE QUADRA

Registered: Feb 2004
Location: A State of Trance

one thing that I noticed though was that a lot of stuff was recreated instead of sampled.

I found this page http://jruaux.free.fr/samples.htm and it seems to me that most guys didn't sample straight from the 12" or did they? how did they remove the beats? thats not possible?

Nov-26-2005 15:21 Canada

thecYrus
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korg m1 could be what you're looking for

Nov-26-2005 15:31

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Rawbert
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Registered: Nov 2005
Location: Gbg

quote:
Originally posted by Limit
how did they remove the beats? thats not possible?

It´s possible with EQ, filters or effects
just go to a club a listen when a DJ mixes two tracks ... same thing

Nov-26-2005 16:35 Sweden

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Limit
AKA:STEVE QUADRA

Registered: Feb 2004
Location: A State of Trance

sorry man, but removing hats, claps, kicks, and snares is not possible without being destructive to the actual sound your after...all those elements take up too much of the sonic range to be eq'ed out properly.

Please try again.

Nov-26-2005 16:41 Canada

Rawbert
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Registered: Nov 2005
Location: Gbg

quote:
Originally posted by Limit
sorry man, but removing hats, claps, kicks, and snares is not possible without being destructive to the actual sound your after...all those elements take up too much of the sonic range to be eq'ed out properly.

Please try again.

Layers

Just Listen to Phats and Small " This time Around" then go and listen to the track they sampled s.o.u.l. "this time around"

Last edited by Rawbert on Nov-26-2005 at 17:04

Nov-26-2005 16:56 Sweden

Rawbert
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Registered: Nov 2005
Location: Gbg

Sample spotting!
http://www.jahsonic.com/Sample.html
http://www.stylehiphop.com/funk.php...se&order=auteur
http://www.dsng.net/samplesources.htm
http://www.the-breaks.com/

Or check out the "Sampled Volume" cd´s

Nov-26-2005 17:19 Sweden

RichieV
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Registered: Aug 2003
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quote:
Originally posted by Limit
one thing that I noticed though was that a lot of stuff was recreated instead of sampled.

I found this page http://jruaux.free.fr/samples.htm and it seems to me that most guys didn't sample straight from the 12" or did they? how did they remove the beats? thats not possible?

most labels will have vocal solos of every song.
When you have money , you can pretty much get any accapella you want.