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#106
Equipment / Re: Explain me...........
January 31, 2002, 09:43:07 PM
For those music-category-questions you better hook up with
t4yh or anyone, I don't even try to sort all that stuff out anymore.
Also it makes not much sense to pigeonhole music, that's just mainly of use for reporters or the media.
But I have one: As mentioned above, those tracks could be seen as Tekkno (dunno if I'm right, but I think 'Techno' is the overall name for the music. The original idea was to describe the hardness of the music with the number of K's in the word Tekkno which again is used for music that uses those 4 to the floor beats. If you have that mad Gabba-stuff you might wanna write it Tekkkno.)
Just say Tekkno to everything that has 4/4 beats and everything will be good.

Mhm, you seem to mean the *feeling* by saying "in my stomach", don'tya?
The acoustical stomach-thing is provided by a strong bass-sound. Let's take an example. I'll use a washing-machine here, since it's the first machine that came to my mind that rotates slow at the start and then speeds up later on.
Dull, but nevermind.
So you put your hand on the machine when it starts to sling
all the clothes around. It's slow at the beginning and you feel the power this evil machine possesses. The rotations are slow but heavy in a way and you can see the machine totter a little bit.
(I really hope we have about the same shitty washingmashines.)
But when the machine goes fast, you sometimes barely see the vibrations because they are like smaller but faster.
When you now touch it, you might notice that the vibrations aren't as heavy as before but therefor you have more of them in the same time.

And frequency behaves equal, it's high, you can't feel (physically) too much anymore, but hear it quite well.
A great part of what we sort the bassy-frequencys to, is actually felt over your bones. This is due to the fact that your real bones are bigger than the small ones you've got in your ear, so they resonate more. Bass always sounds very warm because of the low oscillations, it's a slow sound if you want. You might say now, that you can remember a track that has a non-warm but more evil bass or something, but that is just due to a high range of overtones (the ones that make it melodic), which might be distorted or somehow made 'evil'. The bass-sound itself (musically mostly everything that's under 80Hz) is always warm and round. It's the basses character.

The reason why you can really FEEL it in your stomach is, that
it vibrates slow but with pressure in the air.
This air movement reaches your body and the biggest resonance-area it hits is the torso, because of the high amount of water in the organs (-water is a better sonic-carrier than air).

Fortunately we don't have real water in our eyeballs but some slimy stuff, for we would feel bass in the eyes, uha.

Greetings,
Ekko
#107
Equipment / Re: Explain me...........
January 30, 2002, 08:28:33 PM
That's pretty much it.

Maybe understanding what frequency means (which is measured in Hz) will be more easy if you picture a vibration (think of a sine-wave) that starts off with high peeks and deep valleys. And from the beginning on, it constantly goes downwards, the peeks fall, the valleys rise, it gets more even.
This loudness-curve is called amplitude. The volume of the frequency, to name it.

Okay, I got a bit off here, that was, as I wrote, the amplitude of an audiosignal.

Hz itself describes, as Techno4yourhead explained, the number of vibrations the signal has - per second.
A high tone (take a birds chirilihii, for example):
Imagine the sine-wave from above, but more tightened together. The peeks and valleys are more close to each other
and therefore the ferquency is higher. YOu've got more oscillations per second, than -let's say- a starting car.
The more oscillations you got, the higher the sound.

A common dance-track-bass sometimes even reaches into meter-range, which would explain why you can feel it in your stomach. It rumbles.

Cheers,
Ekko
#108
Equipment / Re: What is a Synthesizer
January 31, 2002, 08:58:26 PM

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In Narayan (My favorite song) there is a main Noise "A kinda bell echoing" Is it a Synth?
#109
Equipment / Re: What is a Synthesizer
January 30, 2002, 06:05:56 PM

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it aint a electronic piano.
Yes, it ain't.

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It's a thing with lots of nobs and switches, which are used to create synthesis.
Using a white noise generator and wave tables.
Some have a keyboard built in, others are rack units which you play via MIDI from a mother keyboard.

Some of them, yes, but they do not only use white noise.
In fact, most Synthies just use an oscillator (or more) which generate an electric impulse, that can be shaped with various types of oscillations. For example, the most known and mainly for the typical club-bass-sound used shape is a pure sine.
YOu might know that one from the Physics-classes.
It sounds kinda 'round' and full and mostly warm.
Other wave-shapes are saw, triangle, s&h (which stands for sample & hold, it's mostly used for LFO's (Low Frequency Oscillators)) and s&g (sample & glide, also mostly LFO).

More common wave-table synthies are also named Romplers, as they mostly play a preset-sound from their rom.
Liam has loads of it, but he alters the presets quite a lot, so no one can 'discover' the presets.

If you wanna know more a bout synthesizers and how you use them, you're welcome to ask, I've gotta shut now.
Greetings,
Ekko
#110
Equipment / Re: please help me with an editing program
January 21, 2002, 05:02:30 PM
..ank .ou !

Aik, Interference!
#111
Equipment / Re: please help me with an editing program
December 14, 2001, 01:47:27 AM
Casey, I didn't mean it like that, and here are no guidelines (hope so), & as I wrote, I offer my help as well.
Dunno why it came out a bit rude, it wasn't meant to be.
Let's just do Equ talk in the related section and everything will be just unbelievable wonderful.

#112
Equipment / Re: please help me with an editing program
December 13, 2001, 07:58:11 PM
Is it just me?
I mean, I use cracked and patched software as well, you know that, but it's just a tad annoying to see a new members first message that begins with 'I need this & that, where can I get'

I'm not denying help in that direction, but this is NOT a forum where you quite 'officially' ask for stuff in the first line, also better go to another section if you have to ask. (Equipment, as Arie suggested, would be fitting.)
And really, it's so extremely easy to get those programs, I mean - Cubase, are you kidding? You can d/l that everywhere.
Try out Kazaa / Morpheus and you'll get what you (don't) deserve
#113
Equipment / Re: Making Music
January 18, 2002, 02:45:17 PM

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HEY GUYS WHERE TO GET SAMPLES FROM "JUNGLE WARFARE" FOR FREE


Hi,

could you post mails like this in the 'SAMPLES'-zone, please?
Thank you.
You might have a chance with www.findsounds.com,
but I bet you won't get any.
#114
Equipment / Re: Making Music
January 18, 2002, 02:41:56 PM

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Yeah, I have seen.. really great movie and Jack Nicholsson is also my favourite actor :)

Oh he SO is!
I wanna have those eyebrowns too, so I could look at everyone as mad as Jack.
#115
Equipment / Re: Making Music
January 13, 2002, 11:41:08 PM

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The breakdown of noises in the end of Funky Shit live version had to be removed cause the copyright reasons. Or if I remember correctly the The Shining-sample was too expensive to use. BTW if you listen carefully Crazy Man you can hear it there too ;)

Right, have you seen Shining? My favourite film, btw. Alongside 2001. In fact I love nearly every Kubrick movie.
That crystal-like sound at the end that's repeated all the time, that's the one from the Title/beginning of shining and crazy man has got this like screamy one right behind the funky-shit sample at the beginning.
Plus, crazy man uses recycled smack my b. up sounds, but I bet you alredy noticed that...

Funky shit live has another synth-line and differently filtered
TB-303 sounds

#116
Equipment / Re: Making Music
January 13, 2002, 05:39:46 PM
Really? Didn't know that, then he stated a little ambigously
Still strange, since F_shit is totally different to MFTJG, must have been written after a studio-rebuild
#117
Equipment / Re: Making Music
January 13, 2002, 01:10:14 AM
Oh, Arie?

Still interested in buying a Moog Prodigy?
I found one, not too expensive (290
#118
Equipment / Re: Making Music
January 13, 2002, 01:05:44 AM
Yep.

I noticed that so often, everyone sees 'Quality' in a different light. For some it's a quality-tune when it just blows your ass away from the world, for others it's the musical site, detailed compositions like Climbatize for example.
It really isn't possible to convince someone why a track is better/more quality than another, since everyone holds different standarts Prodge has to match.

Mh, afaic Funky Shit was written after Firestarter and Breathe (Liam stated that it was the third or fourth track he wrote in an interview once).
I don't think it would have fitted into MFTJG, he used completely different instruments and it's mixed very different.

Yeah? You think the FOTL sounds like pressured writing?
Mhm, hard to say I find. To me it sounds quite detailed, which means he had time to texture it way through.
But he might be a type of writer that gets better the more pressure he experiences.
In fact I think he works good that way.
Me too, by the way.

Greets,
Ekko
#119
Equipment / Re: Making Music
November 01, 2001, 06:24:12 PM
YOU made a remix?

Really? Sorry, this sounds not like it's meant to be.
Hell yeah, I'll go and see.

A prodigy? Do it! I mean, it's not worth the money if you want to make music with it, but if you see it from the collectors standpoint, go ahead.

Greetings,
Ekko
#120
Equipment / Re: Making Music
November 01, 2001, 03:13:40 PM
It's so nice replying yourself.

Come on lads, I know you're out there!

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