Ancestors

Written by Doktor Lond on 2024-11-10 at 20:23

This Friday I was part of this spectacular release. Which I completely missed because I was convinced I was on disc C! Argh.

I've been told that there was some interest regarding the production of my track at the listening party. On the technical side. Which I love to babble about.

Generally I toot this kind of stuff under the tag #DubUnderConstruction

https://bonkknobrecords.bandcamp.com/album/not-what-i-call-bonk-wave-volume-003-disk-b-bonked-and-unbonked

So let me explain a couple of basic stuff in this thread

[#]BonkWave #dub #MusicProduction

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Written by Doktor Lond on 2024-11-10 at 20:29

First of all. Everything is recorded and mixed on my analog desk.

In the track in question the kick drum and the "bonk"-backbeat is programmed but everything else is hand played 64 bar loops.

I do this to get a live feeling and to make the groove interesting and organic to listen to even if it mostly consists of ostinatos.

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Written by Doktor Lond on 2024-11-10 at 20:33

Secondly the mix is totally improvised on my analog desk. It's run from a computer but everything is just running all ostinatos together. I have 16 channels out of my sound card so the different elements goes to different channels on the desk. So All form and structure and things coming in and out is just me moving my faders and knobs. Free style improvised live dub mixing. The track is simply the main output from my desk.

Simple. One puff, press record, go!

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Toot

Written by Doktor Lond on 2024-11-10 at 20:40

Then there was some interest in my delays.

So. First. All effects are outboard gear fed from and mixed into my desk.

The delays in particular is done in a classic dub style setup. Repeats/feedback (whatever it's called) on the delay machine itself is turned all down so. Then the delay is feed from and aux and output goes to a channel on the desk. I control repeats on the channel simply by sending output from the delay back to itself. Small adjustments on eq will colour the sound to taste

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Descendants

Written by Doktor Lond on 2024-11-10 at 20:52

In my current setup I have 3 delays.

As a primary classic dub tempo delay as used on the skanks I have a Yamaha E1005. It has a wonderfull warm sound but needs some eq tweaking to be really usefull for my purpose. As all analog bucket delays it goes very dark so I compensate for that on the desk.

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Written by Doktor Lond on 2024-11-10 at 20:57

For longer delays I use the simplets and cleanest digital delay I could find. A TC Electronic flashback (version one). I then feed it through a compressor in the loop to give it some character. Depending on how you set the compressor you can get some quite interesting effects out of it. On the track in question I didn't press it too hard in the compressor so it still sounds relatively clean.

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Written by Doktor Lond on 2024-11-10 at 21:02

Hmm and the third delay. I don't think I used that at all on that track. Ha ha. Technically it's also the least interesting. It's a strymon brigadier. A fine sounding machine. But it won't work feeding it through the desk. Not all delays will work for that. It's will pick up some ugly digital noise in the loop. Same thing with another strymon delay i've tried, El Capistan. A good sounding delay with a sound that fits good into dub fx. But It wont work if you feed it through the desk

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Written by sknob ⏚ on 2024-11-10 at 20:48

@doktorlond really enjoyed your track. Killer bass line and percussion.

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Written by AxWax on 2024-11-10 at 20:57

@doktorlond Sweet, I've got an E1010 here myself!

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