Question & answer session with Limewax

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Question & answer session with Limewax

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Surya

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Hello fellow producers. We have a special treat for you. We have organised a Q&A with none less that the always fresh but always brutal sounding Limewax. He will answer any questions you might have for him.
A few rules not to swamp him (he's got other things to do than answer you questions. Like making insane music):
- Max two questions per user at the time
- This is about producing, keep it about that
- He might not answer all questions asked. Don't bug him, he'll asnwer any questions he finds intresting enough.
- The session will run for a few days, according to the time he finds to do it. I'll notify when the session is over.

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14-02-2006 14:30

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ok heres an easy one......what set up you using? specifically what soft/hardware and why?

14-02-2006 15:38

Muad'Dib Muad'Dib is a male

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Ok, big

up to Limewax for doing this Q&A - I hope he likes this site Big Grin

Bigup to you too Surya, for organising the whole thing!

Anyway, this is my question: I have problems with synthetising a phat reece. I can make perfect reece by layering two different types of basses (one distorted and one full low phat) but I would like to know how to synthetise my own phat reece tthat would not sound boring and that I can use Big Grin

So can you tell me how to do that, or how YOU do it?

PS I ues FL studio and I have Sytrus and various other plugins.

Thanx
peace,
Muad'Dib

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14-02-2006 16:53

fogga
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How do you personally get your beats sounding tight and flowing, also what do you use to make them?

14-02-2006 17:31

jemone jemone is a male

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can you tell me, do you use old sampled breakbeats, or do you create your own, and if so what processing do you put your breaks through, thankyou. Drummer

14-02-2006 17:43

LIMEWAX
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Registration Date: 14-02-2006
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Originally posted by MUNKI C
ok heres an easy one......what set up you using? specifically what soft/hardware and why?

Acid 5.0 pro, Soundforge 8.0, Reason 3.0, Emu 0404 Soundcard, Edirol PCR-M30 midi keabord, Yamaha msp5 monitors.

14-02-2006 17:57

Peel

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thanks for putting this up guys Bigup

What did you listen to before you even knew drum n bass existed? Are there other genres you're into apart from dnb?

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14-02-2006 18:04

LIMEWAX
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Originally posted by Muad'Dib
Ok, big Bigup

up to Limewax for doing this Q&A - I hope he likes this site Big Grin

So can you tell me how to do that, or how YOU do it?

PS I ues FL studio and I have Sytrus and various other plugins.

Thanx
peace,
Muad'Dib

Its all about the eq's. first try to get it sound nice without distortion, make sure that both pitches are equal unless u want it to phase. try out some diffrent chains.

14-02-2006 18:07

LIMEWAX
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Originally posted by fogga
How do you personally get your beats sounding tight and flowing, also what do you use to make them?

difine your own punch..i personly like the punch in techno and hardstyle beats.. make your beats very loud Wink

14-02-2006 18:10

LIMEWAX
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Originally posted by jemone
can you tell me, do you use old sampled breakbeats, or do you create your own, and if so what processing do you put your breaks through, thankyou. Drummer

it realy depends on the break.. if u take a live break than u can do some cool stuff with timestretching and pitch, get it nice dry, dont layer too much tho unless u sure about the eq's.. 2 breaks can be enough with the right processing, i use all my software i have for the breaks.. see above,

14-02-2006 18:16

Surya

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quote:

Originally posted by LIMEWAX

quote:

Originally posted by fogga
How do you personally get your beats sounding tight and flowing, also what do you use to make them?

difine your own punch..i personly like the punch in techno and hardstyle beats.. make your beats very loud Wink

Yeah, I noticed your beats are mostly quite punchy yet raw. What elements do you combine to get this unique feel to them? A lot of other producers make them just punchy (like Pendulum Roll Eyes

) or very raw with no punch (lets say like Leon Switch). Do you layer, and if so, what do you layer and in what way do you compress all of this?

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14-02-2006 18:16

LIMEWAX
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quote:

Originally posted by Peel
thanks for putting this up guys Bigup

What did you listen to before you even knew drum n bass existed? Are there other genres you're into apart from dnb?

mostly classical, triphop and ambient,nowadays im into all sorts of music.. if its got a nice melody and or vibe then im happy with it.

14-02-2006 18:22

LIMEWAX
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Registration Date: 14-02-2006
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Originally posted by Surya

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Originally posted by LIMEWAX

quote:

Originally posted by fogga
How do you personally get your beats sounding tight and flowing, also what do you use to make them?

difine your own punch..i personly like the punch in techno and hardstyle beats.. make your beats very loud Wink

Yeah, I noticed your beats are mostly quite punchy yet raw. What elements do you combine to get this unique feel to them? A lot of other producers make them just punchy (like Pendulum Roll Eyes

) or very raw with no punch (lets say like Leon Switch). Do you layer, and if so, what do you layer and in what way do you compress all of this?

Mostly just kicks, u can layer small kicks pitched op on the snares, if u think u have to much punch try distoring the whole break and clean it up again. but as i sayd the hardstyle-techno punch is great!!!

14-02-2006 18:31

cynik

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do you do any synthesizing in Reason (Malstrom, Subtractor) ?

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14-02-2006 18:41

Surya

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quote:

Originally posted by LIMEWAX

quote:

Originally posted by Surya
Yeah, I noticed your beats are mostly quite punchy yet raw. What elements do you combine to get this unique feel to them? A lot of other producers make them just punchy (like Pendulum Roll Eyes

) or very raw with no punch (lets say like Leon Switch). Do you layer, and if so, what do you layer and in what way do you compress all of this?

Ah, tnx for the pointer. Until now I mostly used lowpassed punchy snare samples, but I didn't get that same feel...

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14-02-2006 18:41

LIMEWAX
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quote:

Originally posted by cynik
do you do any synthesizing in Reason (Malstrom, Subtractor) ?

No, cant get the right sound out of it.

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14-02-2006 18:42

Surya

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quote:

Originally posted by LIMEWAX

quote:

Originally posted by cynik
do you do any synthesizing in Reason (Malstrom, Subtractor) ?

No, cant get the right sound from there.

So you do everything sample based, like Noisia (and like me Smile

)?

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- Pieter Frenssen 2004

14-02-2006 18:43

LIMEWAX
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Registration Date: 14-02-2006
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quote:

Originally posted by Surya

quote:

Originally posted by LIMEWAX

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Originally posted by cynik
do you do any synthesizing in Reason (Malstrom, Subtractor) ?

No, cant get the right sound from there.

So you do everything sample based, like Noisia (and like me Smile

yeah most of the time.

14-02-2006 18:51

Surora23 Surora23 is a male

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Theres been lots of debates of whether or not the access virus is worth using anymore cause of so many softwares out theres, and its almost just as easy to create your own sounds...

If youre using hardware other than your midi, and your monitors, what hardsynths are you using...

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