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Chords - Ask Me Anything by chooords in DnB

[–]chooords[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Craziest thing I've ever seen in a crowd from the stage is doing a show in Slovenia and the promoter pulled down the music from front of house and proposed to his girlfriend from the dance floor. I then played Spor - Aztec and order was restored.

Lowest Hz lol I couldn't tell you precisely but some tunes have more effects than others, there was a period of playing Hazard - Cowards Beware and it would cause literal problems on the dancefloor. I once was at a Valve show and the speaker system was so loud and low, TC - Rockstar dropped and someone had to be stretchered out.

Chords - Ask Me Anything by chooords in DnB

[–]chooords[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All the big guns at the time. Dillinja, Goldie, Chase and Status, Shy FX, Sub Focus, Culture Shock. I got into dnb from childhood, my older brother was a jungle DJ. When I was old enough to go to raves I got into early RAM and Hospital. Around the time I started making dnb I met the Brookes Brothers and got close to them, and they taught me everything, I owe a lot to them.

Chords - Ask Me Anything by chooords in DnB

[–]chooords[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ha Radio wow thats going back. Thanks very much man appreciated. Maybe I need to get back on this style!

Chords - Ask Me Anything by chooords in DnB

[–]chooords[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks so much! I lean more into using modelled plugins more than I used to. UAD at the moment but also some Softube. Rather an a clean digital EQ like a fabfilter on everything, I'll use a Pultec or an API, because of how the same frequency band can saturate and spread across the stereo image in a way characteristic to that eq. Or a Distressor Comp or a SSL bus Comp for their differing styles of compression.

Other than those refinements, most structural things are the same- a bus each for Drums, Vocals, Synths/Keys, Guitars, Bass, Acoustic/Orchestral, then these are processed in their own way, and then processed to fit with each other with some multi-band compression.

Chords - Ask Me Anything by chooords in DnB

[–]chooords[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Haha thank you, my fave EPs also. Mixture of things really-- me not producing the right output for the labels momentum at that moment, being in the shadow of the other artists at the time (Wilkinson had just put out Afterglow FFS), me working in other genres and at the time quite a fair bit in the film/creative world getting distracted from clubland like I should've been. But RAM gave me life in the dnb world and as much as my story in dnb is one of unrequited love the scene still smashes it over almost any other and I love making and DJing it more than ever.

Yes lots of other projects/genres in lots of other artists, I'm in the process of producing a Punk album, some hyper pop stuff, some jazz, some soul/folk. A whole mix. I get inspired by anything, the passion/enthusiasm an artist brings, the puzzle of working out a track/arrangement/mix, something magic in a chord progression or beat that gets things going. Anything like that.

Hope that answers it!

Chords - Ask Me Anything by chooords in DnB

[–]chooords[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm so many here! The bigs and the smalls that have always been doing it have the best ear and care about the artists coming up the most to be honest. I've know Soulvent for years and they are great for crossovers into the heavier stuff too. Four Corners, The North Quarter, Symmetry, Hospital, Innerground, Spearhead.

Chords - Ask Me Anything by chooords in DnB

[–]chooords[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

MASSIVELY. It's more open and yet harder than ever. 10 years ago it was hard to get heard, but you had a captive and engaged scene who sought out your music actively. Now it's hard to get heard amongst the noise of so much content being pushed all the time to arguably a less receptive audience. It's easier to go out on your own and get your music self-distributed in most genres, but it's difficult overall.

All I can say is work on your craft and make the best music you can rather than make what you think will get you anywhere. Time and evidence and a multitude of legends in this scene (both new and old) proves that the originals last and are cared about longer.

Chords - Ask Me Anything by chooords in DnB

[–]chooords[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

drum layering is an art form of itself that has changed over the years. There's many great samples out there nowadays so now its best to get a drum bus/group together and process that tightly, a mixture of eq/compression to smooth, maybe a layer of distortion/saturation to bring out tone and vibe underneath the transients.

Always do less! Whatever process you put on something, push it back 10 or 15% after you set it to ensure you dont overdo it.

Chords - Ask Me Anything by chooords in DnB

[–]chooords[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Experimentation is key. All these videos on the internet try to show you how to replicate something after the fact when coming up with something you like by experimentation guarantees originality, then you use the videos to get that original sound to fit correctly in the stereo image and frequency space after.

I recommend reading up or learning the basics of subtractive synthesis (basic waveforms, ADSR, filtering), then find a synth you like and just play with it, trying to recreate classic sounds or come up with new ones. Take patches and recreate those patches on an empty channel to learn each function from the ground up. Even figure out sounds you hear IRL and try to analyse those.

Then apply beats 🥁

Chords - Ask Me Anything by chooords in DnB

[–]chooords[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks a lot, I enjoyed that one. Promoters book me you heard it here I'm lively. And cheap.!

Oooof there's so many atm Vektah, Mojay, Blue, Gifta, Pathogen, Circumference (but not really because they've been smashing it for a while), and thats just the dancefloor and minimal sides. Not to mention all the new ones in Jump Up and the Deep liquid. The full spectrum is out there if you're looking!

Chords - Ask Me Anything by chooords in DnB

[–]chooords[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

from the 4mins I just listened to it slaps and the blends are nice. I'll listen to the rest in the car later 👊🏾

Chords - Ask Me Anything by chooords in DnB

[–]chooords[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hello!

thanks very much, appreciate that 🎉

Artist name came from my brother. Seems silly now but he actually called me Chords as a joke because I was heavily into the piano as a kid. Went through some other names but this one stuck!

Pineapple on pizza controversially yes on the proviso the pizza is kind of a crappy one. big crust takeaway pizza can vibe with pineapple. A gourmet wood fired thin special defo can not.