Re: [LAU] Ascension: Music made in Linux

On 01/31/2010 10:42 AM, philicorda wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 19:54 +1100, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> <snip>
>
>> 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.
>

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.

> 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

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Received on Sun Jan 31 04:15:08 2010