At 12:01 AM 2/4/00 -0800, Dale Chapman wrote:
>For those of you who are producing -- especially in the jazzy drum n' bass
>area of things -- what kind of materials/processes are you making use of?
>What are you sampling, and how would your production differ from someone
>who was working in the realm, say, of techstep or "darker" subgenres?
Most jazzy/ambient/chill dnb uses more subdued sounds - mostly in the bass.
The sinewave sub bass tone or "808 kick drum" bass is used more in jazzy
dnb than the harder stuff. Also, acoustic bass or even bass guitar is used.
The hard stuff uses more distorted (a la Dieselboy) synth bass or stuff
that uses detuning or crazy LFO modulation programmed in.
In jazzier dnb, Fender Rhodes, strings or snythpads playing minor 7ths and
other typically jazzy chords are found to smoothen it all out, on the
harder stuff, there's hardly any chordal backing, or it's more sparse. IMHO
it's the Rhodes sound that provides the link between Acid Jazz and jazzy dnb.
Also, in terms of breakbeats, there's more opportunity to use rolls or
ghostnotes; in the harder stuff, it's mostly just the "boom...chak.....boom
chak" 2-step type beat.
Of course, those are just rules, which one is free to break anytime...
Classic examples like Adam F's "Circles" has all of the above in terms of
my jazzy dnb descriptions...in short, it's more "musical" sonding than the
harder genres...of course I like em all...generally speaking, the harder
stuff is more fun to dance to, the jazzier stuff is more fun to listen to.
Elson
aka e:trinity
www.mp3.com/etrinity
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