How do you use effects on House Beats?

[migumartinez]

Found a nice tutorial http://audiotuts.com/production/how-...ng-only-audio/

But i would be interested in your techniques.
I cant get my beats working. They alway sound boring an unprofessional.

Hope to get this threat working :-)

Thankx
migu

[djfunq]

You had me on... "I found a nice tutorial"
but I lost you after hearing it
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Don't mind me, I'm drunk! lol
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Introduce yourself..., what are you working with?
Software/hardware?!?
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Quote:" If you take the blue pill, you wake up in bed and you believe whatever you want to believe..., but if you take the red pill... you stay in wonderland and we'll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes...

[migumartinez]

hi,
okay you are wright. let me introduce myself.

my little homestudio ist mainly based on software. i use logic and some NI Instruments like reaktor, elektrik piano and battery.

i would call myself a rookie. i want to learn makeing a track step by step. my startingpoit is the housebeat.

i read an tried a lot. but most of the stuff i didnt find usefull. only the above tutorial was a good step by step guide.

migu

[blackwax]

get a drum machine! Akai MPC 3000 or at least a good midi drum contoller like the Akai MPD24

once you have that use a program like the Battery VST
sample your own drums in the highest quality you can
tune all the samples!
study quantize and swing settings

maybe to get an idea of how beats are constructed use a program like Recycle to break a drum pattern down into individual components this will help you work out how a beat is built

i watch alot of online tutorials like this one

http://musicprotutorials.blogspot.co...alion-one.html

some great advice from a great producer of beats
"My Name is Phlash and Drum programming is one helluva an Obsession"
If you want your drums to sound right, you need to understand the rudiments of a Beat, Ie: "what and in which order the drummers playing each drum or cymbal".
this principle applies to all beat makers, Matts got the right idea as well, copy your favorite beat, rip it apart, dissect it down to single hits, then work out how it ticks, learn the rudiments and you can apply these to a thousand beats, slightly changing swing percentage, position of beats and sounds for each different beat.
An essential thing is TUNING, if a Kick drum is out of tune with the bass its gonna sound flat or sharp, same goes for all the other elements of the drum Kit. Tuning is essential to a good groove, now if you sample a kick drum and it has a snare on top, have a good listen to the tuning, if you adjust the tuning of that kick, remember the snares gonna tune with it, creating a dis chord if out of tune, which can sometimes be favorable to the sound, but normally just sounds out of tune. Maw, 4 HERO, Moodyman, Dj Premier, Kerrie Chandler, Frankie Feliciano, Jaydee (R.I.P), Mood to Swing, Fanatix, Lil Louis, Underground Resistance always have well tuned drums in my opinion.
As for Sample source, If you can hear it, Sample it, Just make sure you get the best recording of it you can, if you can wait for the vinyl to arrive in the post, wait, its not the greatest sound if you sample from an mp3, Drums are the backbone of most dance music and lots of others, so make them sound good, they are going on throughout the track after all.
A physical way of learning to program is with a drum machine, or failing that an Akai Mpd Contoller (or equivalent) triggering Midi, popping the beats in on the fly, creating patterns without having to stop the sequencer, letting your inspiration flow, i think a drum Machine gives you more freedom, its another piece of kit to learn, but once you do making beats becomes a lot more organic to your work process, (deep). Its true, you'll see.
Experiment, make and break the rules, Nobody can tell you how to do it really, you got to find your own way, be comfortable, then you might have some time left to worry about the Music, Song, Arrangement etc, or maybe jus the next beat.

[djbuzzard]

+1

[reese 60615]

listen to virgo tracks by vince lawrence. may even some early marshall jefferson rock your body etc. you can find these on youtube. start with the basic drum patterns and then move up to the techno beats. record your bassline chords strings separately (without the drum track) and mix the drum track in last.

[blackwax]

listen to virgo tracks by vince lawrence. may even some early marshall jefferson rock your body etc. you can find these on youtube. start with the basic drum patterns and then move up to the techno beats. record your bassline chords strings separately (without the drum track) and mix the drum track in last.

that seems real odd to me