pre-dub sound design, controller setup + the actual dubbing
Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 4:40 pm
Hey! I am new to this forum, and Id say a little new to dub also. I am raised by reggae music... almost all the Bob´s creation + Steel Pulse, Toots & the Maytals and so on...
what took me to dub was Thievery Corporation, I think its like a mixture of lo-fi fusion and dub...downtempoish.
I have long experience in producing music and mostly I know how to do everything that I can think of... now introduced to the aspects of dub, I find it like a new challenge.
Basically what I would like to get some tips on, how much time is spent in designing the sounds and arrangements before the actual dubbing process... I know that it is possible to set up the whole dub song just by arranging the parts and doing the special fx with automations and such, but I see that this is not the real thing... someone wrote that he plays a loop where all the tracks are playing throughout the whole song, and simply messes around with fx´s and mutes etc...
is it reasonable to do any build ups for like drums ..and then after 4 loops a new instrument bar comes in , or is all done by using faders and mutes?
I dont have a real mixing board, but I can acchieve mostly the same teqchniques by using controllers (for what I have learned, where there is lack, innovation comes in...) I guess that when I do something like, send the skank track to SEND1 which has a delay in it, then when the delay starts playing I turn down the original skank or kill it completely...shit like that, should acchieve something close to the dub flow... and play with muting drums, bass maybe , skanks...for snare use delay sends and reverbs.
any tips welcome, mostly on - what to do pre dub process, how much effort in designing the sounds, and what to do when it comes to the actual dub process... the first experiments I ripped too much fx I guess beause it was like a mess
what took me to dub was Thievery Corporation, I think its like a mixture of lo-fi fusion and dub...downtempoish.
I have long experience in producing music and mostly I know how to do everything that I can think of... now introduced to the aspects of dub, I find it like a new challenge.
Basically what I would like to get some tips on, how much time is spent in designing the sounds and arrangements before the actual dubbing process... I know that it is possible to set up the whole dub song just by arranging the parts and doing the special fx with automations and such, but I see that this is not the real thing... someone wrote that he plays a loop where all the tracks are playing throughout the whole song, and simply messes around with fx´s and mutes etc...
is it reasonable to do any build ups for like drums ..and then after 4 loops a new instrument bar comes in , or is all done by using faders and mutes?
I dont have a real mixing board, but I can acchieve mostly the same teqchniques by using controllers (for what I have learned, where there is lack, innovation comes in...) I guess that when I do something like, send the skank track to SEND1 which has a delay in it, then when the delay starts playing I turn down the original skank or kill it completely...shit like that, should acchieve something close to the dub flow... and play with muting drums, bass maybe , skanks...for snare use delay sends and reverbs.
any tips welcome, mostly on - what to do pre dub process, how much effort in designing the sounds, and what to do when it comes to the actual dub process... the first experiments I ripped too much fx I guess beause it was like a mess