30 Jan
2010
30 Jan
'10
7:56 p.m.
On 01/31/2010 10:42 AM, philicorda wrote:
On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 19:54 +1100, Patrick Shirkey
wrote:
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I kind of like the way the crackles sound at low volume but they are way
to upfront in the raw version which does destroy the sound a lot. I have
heard the crackles used to quite good effect over the past year or so
from some of the touring EU based DJ's. They tend to be playing a more
minimal/tech/house sound too.
Now if that is all that people have to offer and
there is no actual
technical feedback that anyone can be bothered with then I will just
have to go with what I can achieve on my sound system for this track.
Perhaps my next track will fare better...
BTW, I have 10 of them so I hope at least one of them will get a
positive response...
I had to listen to hear what all the controversy was about. :)
I tried a 24db low pass filter at 500hz with Q=0.1 on it.
This sounded much better to me, as it got rid of the crackling noises
which were making it unpleasant for me to listen to.
With the crackles gone, the variations of sound, pitch and tempo were
more discernible and it made more sense.
If it were my music, I'd do the low pass and then
put the occasional
chime from a glockenspiel or metal bar, recorded acoustically and
absolutely as natural sounding as possible. There is so much space left
after low passing that a few metallic sounds would just drift above it
all.
That's part of my dilemma too. If I completely bypass the high and
middle what do I replace it with?
You make a good suggestion.
That's what I think anyway. I actually like to
listen to this kind of
thing. I would put the genre as 'electronic/minimal' though, rather than
house, as 'house' has a very specific meaning to me. (house=boomtish
+annoying high pitched female vox)
I know what you mean. I would call that vocal house. To me Tech House is
a more edgy sound that verges on experimental/minimal and industrial.
The crossover is such that you can often hear a Tech House set progress
through to a minimal electro sound Maybe I consider this track to be
somewhere in the middle ground where it might be possible to transition
from a pure house sound to a minimal sound using a section of this track
to join the set together. To my ear it has a four on the floor beat
which is pure house.
Cheers.
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd