squarepusher How to make the amen sound like go spastic's one

mike paradinas gave a pretty nice insight at the redbull academy about what crazy stuff he does with the amen in native instruments battery. jus need the ideas and the ears and cut it . :D

you just need some nice effects, eq's especially. i still haven't found an eq vst that blew my mind though.

towards the right side he's got a sequence going

towards the left he has stretched reversed amen snares and kicks every quarter note

that creates some panning confusion

naturally

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my employer only allows me one amen break per (phase) shift

  welcome to the machine said:

  sisforawesome said:

  tv_party said:

My off the top of my head guess is that

1. he's using a tracker

2. got a high pass filter on it

3. degraded a bit (maybe with a slight pitch shift) hard compressed with a long attack to retain the snap and resampled.

isn't it a widely known thing that he did go plastic with hardware?

 

no, go plastic was the first one he did using a computer as well, the albums before were hardware only. I remember reading an interview where he talked about how the profits of the first few albums had allowed him to buy a computer and how he was loving the new found freedom, allowing him to take his music on go plastic to an even more intricate level. there are pics on the net of his studio at this time, and at the centre of it is a pc.

Even if he used a computer for recording, the meat of the tracks on go plastic and all of the effects were done with hardware. This is just according to a recent(07 or 08) japanese interview I read on squarepusher.net.

because artists never tell lies in interviews.

  Bubba69 said:

  welcome to the machine said:

  sisforawesome said:

  tv_party said:

My off the top of my head guess is that

1. he's using a tracker

2. got a high pass filter on it

3. degraded a bit (maybe with a slight pitch shift) hard compressed with a long attack to retain the snap and resampled.

isn't it a widely known thing that he did go plastic with hardware?

 

no, go plastic was the first one he did using a computer as well, the albums before were hardware only. I remember reading an interview where he talked about how the profits of the first few albums had allowed him to buy a computer and how he was loving the new found freedom, allowing him to take his music on go plastic to an even more intricate level. there are pics on the net of his studio at this time, and at the centre of it is a pc.

 

Even if he used a computer for recording, the meat of the tracks on go plastic and all of the effects were done with hardware. This is just according to a recent(07 or 08) japanese interview I read on squarepusher.net.

He also mentions this in the phone interview he did with Keith Fullerton Whitman (Hrvatski). He talks about all the processing being done on an Eventide, and Keith corrects him and says that the Eventide is basically a computer. I believe he said that at the time of the interview he had begun using computers, but had not yet begun to use them on Go Plastic.

Who knows what the truth is, but these are words from the daddy himself.