TeeBee
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Location: London/LA/norway
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Wow.. This could take all day!! Responses after questions.
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Originally posted by significance
hi Teebee - thanks for taking your time to do this Q&A 
just a few from me...
how / what do you use to distort your mid-range bass noises? How many iterations of processing would you say each hit gets on average? Do you use old hits as a starting point or work from synths/waveforms every time? what kind of source sounds? How do make sure they sound bright and grimey whilst ensuring they don't sound 'nasal'?
--Ok,here we go... The most common soft applications are guitar rigs 1,2 and 3. I´ll use these as a starting point,sometimes flicking through the presets to find one that sound somewhat ok,then start going deeper into the plug in to see if I can get anywhere. Guitar Rig 3 has an endless amount of possibilities,and it´s really worth taking your time to get to know it. Great distortion,great LFO´s,great flangers/phacers and just overall really warm and gritty sounding. There are a whole range of great distortion units out there so its all in finding what suits you the best and get your own take on it. Ohmicide and Trash are 2 other fav´s of mine. Try bleeding the wet level of Trash automated,so your sound don´t get a constant amount of distortion,but a little bit of movement. Add a compressor and limit it slightly to make up for the volume difference and with some careful EQ you should be able to get somewhere decent pretty quick. Just know its nice to know what you are looking for the sound to do before you start... As with everything music related its all in an trial/error context . Sometimes you get there quick,other times it takes forever. I have this one saying that seems to help me when I struggle the most,and never have I heard anything more accurate because it comes true every time! ¨
--Ìf you keep banging your head against the wall,eventually there´ll be a hole!¨
Nearly forgot about Amplitube 1 & 2. Amazing stuff.
--As far as how much processing on each section it varies a lot. All depending on how deep I want to go or what I´m after. Sometimes it can be 2 hours ,other times it will be months of subtelty added until the movement and caracter hits the spot. I have a system that I go through and it´s quite lengthy and complex . I´ll leave it at that. I don´t want to give away too much!:) I always reverse everything just to try it out tho, top tip...
--My sources of sounds are very varied . Having made music for 17 years I have built up a big sound library and yes,I have a few favorite sounds. But lately its all in drawing out wave forms and using oscilators to generate sound. I am also in love with my Virus TI snow. There is nothing more satisfying than knowing you made something by yourself from scratch!! As time go by you learn what caracter in a sound will produce a good final product as well. I tend to use string sounds a lot for the caracter part of my mids. Filtered,sometime´s combined with LFO and flangers/phacers. One thing tho.. There is nothing more ´cheap´sounding to me than a reece or a riff sound that has a flanger stuck on the whole channel for constant movement. That is not control to me,that is random.. If you do decide to use a flanger/phacer ,bounce down the individual hit on repeat for 5 min with your other applications repeating and the flanger/phacer slowly moving to get the ´sweet´ones . Then take the best 8-16 hits and process them again...:) Always try to be original in your sound selection. Avoid the obvious and get your own feel inside the sound. God I sound like such a nerd...
--Notching is the key to get unwanted frequencies away. Be careful tho,as sometimes you´ll end up taking away all the caracter of the sound that made you like it in the first place. Just because a sound is excellent on it´s own,don´t necessary mean it´ll fit your track... There will always be a frequency fight in your tunes. Good engineering is knowing how to create space and pick your battles:)
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Originally posted by significance
if, how, where and why do you use reverb on your breaks? how do you get your drums to sound so clinical, clear and tight?
--I´d tell you,but I´d have to kill you..lol. I´ll give a few pointers tho! As far as reverb on the whole break bus,that is something I´ll use to tie the gaps together and give it a ´whole´feel. To get a good sounding break,its all in the individual hits you choose. Pick a turd,end up with a turd.. Individual compression and notching on each hit,loads of reversing,pitching resampling..The list is endless. I also compress the beat as a whole once I´ve got the individual hits sounding nice and the break is good as an entity. I do this to get a consistency feel and general caracter spread over all the hits to make it sound like one break instead of tons of 1 shots. Remember your break has a key as well.. If your tune is in G and your kit is in G sharp,you may have some difficulty making it sound good. I have a few compressors I always reach for and loads of track/bus chains that I´ve made over the years. Tape saturation on the whole beat is nice in some cases 2... I´ll leave it at that:)
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Originally posted by significance
how do you deal with drum edits? it can seem quite a formidable task to go into a tune and make the number of edits you seem to!
--Every time I know I´m about to start an édits´tune I feel physically ill...Not to blow my own horn ,but my tunes will always be measured up to ´The Claw´,´Ni ten rmx´and other edit fests every time i do one like that! That is partially why I´ve avoided them like the plague the past few years... But! I am now back in on it with a new mentality to breakwork. Yes,it takes forever.. Think like a drummer. That´s what I´m trying to do. Surprise the listener ,but avoid getting overly complex as you´ll lose the listener. Tasteful control is again the key. Not always go for edits at the end of a bar. Get some randomness in there,but always make sure it fits the context. I usually let the whole tune undergo an edit when the beats do. Make your whole tune play like a single instrument with full control. I´l sometimes work an edit for a day to get it right. No joke! Calyx is just as bad..:)
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Originally posted by significance
thanks again, fantastic tunes, i'm both inspired and jealous 
--Thanx for listening.. An artist is nothing without his fanbase:)
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Dogs On Acid > The Grid > Q&A Session 22: Teebee
04-06-2009 11:14 AM
Can I remix any of your tracks? 
