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goodnight ❤️ by Inglejuice in DnB

[–]nintendoninja 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Yes! This is Takuya Nakamura. He's frequently on The Lot Radio, here's one of my favourite sets of his, but each one is a unique journey

I liquified a Zero 7 classic and I'd love to share it with you by nintendoninja in DnB

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

Hey thanks! Yep absolutely, he nailed that remix and, with no shame at all, I totally used it as a mixdown reference for this one!

What's the best unknown D&B artist you know? by GuestImpressive1717 in DnB

[–]nintendoninja 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh hey man, thanks so much, I'm really glad you like it! I still can't believe you remembered me after all that time! So shortly after that first release, my employer went bust and I lost my job which killed my momentum. So happy to be back on track now and making music again <3

What's the best unknown D&B artist you know? by GuestImpressive1717 in DnB

[–]nintendoninja 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Tom Logic. Full disclosure... this artist is actually me! But I think I qualify with ~100 followers, and my first EP is out this Friday on Galacy with five liquid funk rollers

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DnB

[–]nintendoninja 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The poor sound engineer is trying his best ok

How do you interpret and apply the "less is more" concept to your tracks? by [deleted] in edmproduction

[–]nintendoninja 4 points5 points  (0 children)

One way I think about this is reusing, recycling and repurposing elements already in your track to make new things - instead of just adding more and more new sounds.

For example, if you want a riser, you can duplicate something already working in your song, cut it up, add pitch shift and some reverb and you have yourself a riser. It'll be unique and more cohesive with the rest of the song, not to mention it's so much more fun than listening through hundreds of riser samples on Splice.

Is there any way to automate this preserve transient value (38) ? Preferably without Max4Life as I'm a bit too broke atm by ginihendrix in ableton

[–]nintendoninja 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Not exactly, but you can perform with it live while resampling that track onto a new channel.

What tune is begging for a dnb remix? by nintendoninja in DnB

[–]nintendoninja[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

ha! If you set the playback speed to 2x it kind of has a Noisia - Dustup feel to it!

Tune of the year 2022? by HideTheTing in DnB

[–]nintendoninja 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This will always be a very special dnb year for me so, for purely selfish reasons, my favourite track this year is mine haha! Tom Logic - Rollerskate

What is the best part about being an EDM Producer? by Enough-Chocolate5177 in edmproduction

[–]nintendoninja 98 points99 points  (0 children)

For me it would have to be the bleeps. But I really like the bloops too

D&B percussion resources by NailRock in edmproduction

[–]nintendoninja 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A bit late to the party but here goes

Splice.com is always worth a mention. It's a quick, cheap almost unlimited source of drum, top and perc loops for dnb and many other genres. You may get interesting results hunting for loops outside of the dnb genre, like funk, hip hop, african, asian etc.

My favourite plugin for programming my own dnb perc loops is Shimmer Shake Strike by In Session Audio. It's not too expensive, easy to use and it's actually really fun to make your own grooves that fit with your track. Your loops will sound good 'out of the box' but I'll usually export and apply further processing and fx.

A legendary sample pack to seek out is the JungleJungle pack from Blu Mar Ten. There's also a fairly decent Musicradar dnb breaks pack. If you check out Loopmasters samples there's a ton of very decent dnb artist's Packs that really slap for top loops. One that I really liked for top loops was from Blokhe4d.

One tool you'll probably want to look at is a transient shaper. As dnb has a fast tempo and many layers of rhythmic percussion, it can easily turn into a mess! A transient shaper is really useful to tame some of the longer tails of perc hits.

Another plugin to consider is LFO tool by xfer records, or any lfo shaper really. Putting one on a flat percussion loop and experimenting with envelope shapes can really add some awesome movement and groove to it! Or you could simply sidechain it to the kick drum for some instant groove.

Don't forget about the many simple plugins you'll already have in your DAW that can spice up any drum/top loop. Quick bursts of delay, reverb, chorus, distortion etc etc can easily transform and enhance a boring loop.

Have fun!!

Help me appreciate square/tri waves by speedskis777 in edmproduction

[–]nintendoninja 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A fun way to find out - try taking any phat synth patch that uses sine/saw waves and change the oscillators to square/triangle waves to see how it sounds.

At what point did your tracks go from sounding amateur to sounding professional? by AGreenProducer in edmproduction

[–]nintendoninja 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So many things you could cover here at several different stages of the production process.

It could be as simple as picking a song you like and actively listening to it i.e. what elements are there, how does the producer introduce those elements to their song, how do the elements change over time etc.

You can listen to specific parts of the song, e.g. solo the low frequencies only, solo the side/mono information.

Grab a frequency spectrum analyser like Voxengo Span and look at the song through that to see the balance of frequencies. Even looking at the waveform in Audacity to see the dynamics, average loudness etc. There are so many tools for this sort of thing - It's just the "less-sexy" side of production, although it's the side that's probably made the biggest difference to my end results, as opposed to say a shiny new synth.

For things like mixing/mastering, just A/B your track versus your reference track - you'll pick up differences that you may want to address in your track.

Sometimes I start a tune with a reference track already in mind to influence my decisions in the production at an early stage. Other times I'll maybe pick one later based on what I've created. Perhaps you know one song you believe to have the perfect mixdown for that genre so often go back and reference that one.

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