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Author: cbit on January 21 2007 Viewed 5796 times. 51 people liked this blog. You can rate it below if you haven't already.
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Theres a certain gritty crunch to 'snare' type percussion sounds that chris clark (among others) does very well. Here's a way of approximating a similar sound.
An 808 clap sample has the same quality. Inspecting the waveform close up reveals several transient peaks very closely spaced in the the 'attack' portion of the sound (simulating the slight lack of syncronisation when x number of people attempt to clap at the same time).
You can pull this same trick on a variety of non-clap samples as long as they have a nice brief peak transient at their onset (if they don't, make one).
Quickly and dirtily in live: zoom in, copy the attack transient of your percussive hit and paste it one or two times prior to the 'beat'. vary the pitch or some other kind of modulation if you like. When played back, the copied transients shouldn't be independently identifiable. They should all still sound as though they are one 'hit' but now with that certain crunchy raspy crackling something.
Experiment with the positioning of the completed sound. having the initial 'hits' begin slightly before the beat tends to give an effect that i like. | |
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01/23/07
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AikiGhost
Anyway CBit I had a play with audacity and some of my machine drum sample lib last night, editing various claps, snares and bass drums, and I've been enjoying myself with some of the new sounds I've manufactured via clipping and repeating random sections.
Just one question though is there a wav editor available that will allow me to set up a script template (much what like can do with images in photo shop) to rearrange audio samples that I can then get to process an entire folder at once? that way I can generate a shed load of messed up sounds and keep the ones I like.
01/23/07
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kidko
Great tip, cbit! Thanks for providing just what I needed for this beat I'm working on. I agree with the commenter who suggested another cbitian tip on kicks.
01/23/07
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cbit
aikighost: a scriptable audio editor, mmm that would be good. I don't know. perhaps adobe audition or soundtrack pro have some kind of scripting support?..
kidko: kicks, mm i dunno. i think i just posted the best tips i know haha  if anything else occurs to me that seems useful i'll post it.
edited: Feb 01 2007
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mlbot
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tapeop forum.
Interesting bits to note: bringiing over your fat nervous neighbors makes for a better clap track.
As does speeding the song up during the recording phase, doing 8 takes, and slowing/mixing them all back down.
03/23/07
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cbit
good thread. lol @ nervous neighbour
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daswesen
audacity has scripting suppotr with nyquist, a nice lispy language.
07/22/07
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linde
having the initial 'hits' begin slightly before the beat tends to give an effect that i like.
Oh yeah, I always do this with my claps. It sounds so much more alive!
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