I've always been a big Funky/French House fan (Daft Punk's Discovery was my first electronic album, period), but I never tried producing it until these past couple of days. I have a chord progression, a pretty nice beat, and I'm working on a bassline, but I'm still not really sure where to go. I'm taking a lot of inspiration from some of the FL Studio example projects, but I'd still like your advice.
So, anyone who has any advice on making Funky/French House, whether it's sound design, composition, arrangement, etc., what've you got for me?
And yes, I know what side-chaining is. No need to tell me.
nortek
sampling! forget about synthesis.
Scrittah
I actually would totally go the sampling route (I've been told by my gearhead cousin that my piece of crap guitar is actually perfect for funk), but I have a distinct lack of recording equipment and an even more distinct lack of money, so the only way to record is to route my guitar straight into my PC. And I don't have a mic to record anything else.
On the other hand, I've been thinking that a mic is probably a good investment to make at some point (all I've got is a crappy 15 dollar mic from Staples).
Mad for Brad
My first and only attempt at it. Was a remix for a hard trance tune I did.
I think the bassline is key. Use of certain chords and sounds. The progressions are not that different from regular trance but the focus will be more on a minor pentatonic scale rather than a minor scale. No samples used but I will admit it does sound quite dated compared to the cutting techniques and heavy compression they starting doing in the last few years.
asdfg
if you're going for the daft punk sound then the sampling/stealing route should work out well for you, you could even wear a mask if you ever get famous.
JEO
Whoa that reminds me of Streets Of Rage 2's (video game) score somehow. It is brilliant.
Mr.Mystery
quote:
Originally posted by asdfg
if you're going for the daft punk sound then the sampling/stealing route should work out well for you, you could even wear a mask if you ever get famous.
1) Sample
2) A metric ton of sidechain
3) ???
4) Profit!
MSZ
brad, your melody reminds me a lot of john graham from his beginning. are you familiar with his work, hes a legend.
this is from 1994.
Mad for Brad
pretty sure quincy jones , George Clinton. Rick Hames was doing that moog wiggle lead a decade earlier. Early house just ripped off those musicians but did it badly with no soul. No i'm not familiar with that guy and he definitely isn't a legend and that song licks in a bad way.
It's still VERY rough and needs plenty of work - and a proper song structure - but I'm still pretty proud of it. The bassline actually took the longest. I spent a good chunk of this morning coming up with this lengthy, complex bass riff before realizing it sucked and made something far simpler (and better).
The next step is to come up with a couple of good melodies to use, and then factor them in while trying to fill the spaces in between with all sorts of sound FX, but before I go ahead, I'd like some advice on what I've already got. Thanks.
