Message 12/59
Date: 01-Dec-00 @ 01:54 PM -
RE: punchy kick drums
"teemu. sampling a kick drum is not exactly treading water really. "
Depends on how you do it. Sampling something to make something new is ok, sampling something because you aren't able to do it yourself is not.
I would love to make kick drums as punchy as Daft Punk's. But instead of sampling them I learn how to use the eq and the compressor better. My music sucks now but when I learn all the tricks I will be good and, more importantly, original. If I just sampled everything instead of learning how to do them myself I would be able to make good music a lot faster but it wouldn't be original, it would be just me ripping off some artists.
"nothing new in 10 years? hmmm. pretty bold statement! "
More or less. The last really new thing was the birth of drum'n'bass and that happened 9 or 10 years ago. Production quality is now 10x better than 10 years ago but music-wise there hasn't been happening that much lately.
"isnt, uh, sampling...the same as ASKING how do I do this?
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Err... NO
Sampling a guitar melody from Hendrix is not the same thing as asking him to teach you a few tricks =)