JKT057 - stop!

JeffMinute057: Stop!


Had a really good band practice today. Started making this on the way home, felt original to me while i was making it but now listening to it i think i pretty directly ripped off both Hot Chip and LCD Soundsystem.

Tried re-amping the bass. First time I learned about this technique was while we were mixing the Lightwires album. What you do is take a specific track, run it through an amplifier (guitar amp, bass amp, whatever) and then record the output via a microphone right there in front of the amp. Seems kinda pointless perhaps, but from what our mixer/masterer said, it's a really common technique in professional mixes, especially a lot of music that's partially computer-generated (i.e. Justice). Takes a very... clean and precise waveform generated by a digital synth and sort of brings it into the real world of analog overtones, can add all sorts of depth and life to things, especially bass tracks. Use an old school hardware analog synth, he said, and you can avoid a lot of re-amping.

So for this one I stuck the Zoom H4 next to one of my speakers, muted all tracks in reason except for the bass, played it through the speakers and recorded it. Then imported the new bass track from the stungun, sync'd it up in Ableton with the rest of the song, recorded a few quick vocal tracks and BAM! Done.

If you listen to the non-reamped bass in the actual reason file, you can really tell the difference:
03-01-2009.rns
Refills used:
260dB: The Drum&Bass Refill
Reason Drum Kits
Reason Factory Soundbank