Pads

Theere's probably already been a thread about pads but if not its due time i'd say! Pads are my favourite part of music! Truly the backbone of a good track. For me, pads are to electronic music what rhythm guitar is to rock (fucking SWEET THAT IS).

Post your favourite pads or a song with hella good pads inside of it! Discuss techniques for making pads and your favourite pad production modules

bochum welt - omicron

He said post.

I love the pads that james stinson was using in his later work.

pads be tricky yo.

feedback loop a bunch of reverbs on sends. LUSH

the atmosphere by dj phantasy has some wicked pads

its kinda o love n hate thing with pads with me

yeah its nice to play some big open chords but on the other side they are the most clichéd synth sound in any music

pads have to be intricate or dark to get my attention these days

i love great pads in electronic music as well. have you ever listened to esem?

check out esem - preledd especially around the two minute mark

and esem - ekred around 1:30

Bounty Killer & Beenie Man - Borderline Mobster

It's not on youtube... I should up it... I dunno why but back in the day of my early jungle explorations that shit got to me in a good way...

the vocal pads in fenix funk for me

also check out the detroit escalator company, definitely one of my favourites. hasn't been a release in forever though

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvT7HULCdAM&feature=related

http://www.myspace.com/193588317

also how could i forget

proem - place gun to head

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOiX38NKT08

one of my favourite songs ever...there's nothing quite like listening to this while biking in the woods at 3am

Cant stand synthesized pads.

i don't have any songs to contribute but i love using the infector+funkyverb+fsmchorus in buzz for pads. and as for hardware, i use an old yamaha portasound through a vox wah pedal, behringer reverb and delay. the wah pedal gives it a nice subtle distortion that can also sound really bad if you don't know what you're doing.

big james stinson fan here, listen to the opening lushness and grandiosity of the opening pads here;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqKiY8TcAnk

also favourite opening chords ever here;

the pads in this tune always give me chills!

and a dope remix:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt486Iz97lw

  On 10/17/2009 at 9:35 PM, Jaffa said:

big james stinson fan here, listen to the opening lushness and grandiosity of the opening pads here;

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqKiY8TcAnk

 

also favourite opening chords ever here;

 

really fucking nice tracks man.. cheers

i've always liked these two..

The pads in the background of 'Fenix Funk' are awesome.

I reckon those fenix pads are a casio sk-1 sample of a vocal then put into some thing else for tweaking

The Hacker has always great pads.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mJSewIWxZc

  On 10/21/2009 at 3:07 AM, vasio said:

The Hacker has always great pads.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mJSewIWxZc

word!the pads in this song are mint

i was watching this 'in the studio' video from the magazine futuremusic with the artist funkagenda, who i haven't listened to before but he explains how he creates a tech house kind of song

he goes into how the process of how he creates his pads and stuff with logic here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRotB5Lk8Hs&feature=channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKlVcDIpsx8&feature=channel

dmx crew - good ol daze