Friday, May 22nd, 2009 at
12:21 am
Bass! So how on this God forsaken Earth to they come up with that Colosseum crushing rip your face off bass sound?
Never fear my friend as I’ll guide you through one the most enlightning and terrifying subjects you’ll ever face!
DnB Bass!
DnB bass is so bad ass the element has taken a place in the genre name! Now if that ain’t saying something NOTHING will!
To harp on about its importance some more, its 50% of the genre title! Now that’s big! All jokes aside people I hope you get the idea that this element of DnB is crucial to the music. Pivotal some might say! Nations are split down the middle over what element they like more, some say drums, others say bass. Some say Potato, some say Potatoe!
Go figure!
Well, how I do make my own God fearing bass sounds? The most important thing to understand when making bass is that the sound you’ve come to love is made up of serveral layers. Yes! several layers! Not 1 or 2, SEVERAL!
When we talk about bass we are talking about a sound that covers pretty much all of the frequency spectrum 20hz – 20khz. We split the spectrum up into different bands to help us create the sound we want.
1. Sub bass. 120hz and below.
2. Midz. 100hz – 5000hz.
3. Tops. 5000hz – 20,000hz.
The key to getting the bass to sound Huge is in the manipulation of the layers. This will involve understanding frequencies and what tools to control them what to layer up and what effects to use.
I’ll go into more detail in part 2.
Hope this information helps clear some stuff up.
Peace.
DjDauntless
www.myspace.com/dauntlessdnb
Monday, May 18th, 2009 at
10:01 am
Are you ready for some the best drum n bass production tips you can find on the Planet? I hope so because I’ve been doing the dnb production thing for quite a while now and i must say, I’ve got some red hot tips to share!
Anyways, I’m putting this little blog out there into the big world because I honestly think that the often mysterious world of Drum & Bass can be a bit frustrating to young players! (also old ones like myself!) and a little knowledge can go a long way to helping out some. You follow me?
So, basically I thought how much better life would be if “only I had some more guidance or more knowledge in the black arts of Drum n Bass Production.”
I think you’ll find the journey into this world fantastic, wonderful and frustrating. It will be fun for some and just too “damn” hard for others but my advice to you is to never give up!
I’ll take you through my own experiences producing the beats. Guide you through the pitfalls and mistakes that a noob can easily fall into. Introduce you to some of the biggest drum n bass artists and some the new school coming through by way of Video interviews, Q & A’s and much more.
I’ll even go so far to give you samples to download so that you can get on the beats quickly and produce quality results straight away!
Never fear though because if you just keep on fighting the good fight, success will be yours and in no time the big players will be smashing down “your” tunes in the clubs all around this mighty planet!
Anyways, grab a coffee, your favorite sequencer and let’s dive in to some drum n bass production!
See you on the dance floor
Dauntless
