Anu Katariina Posted June 12, 2016 Posted June 12, 2016 Hello everyone! To most of the forum members terminology of production is self-clear. I have been interested in it, am interested in it, but since I don't have a patience to find e.g. YouTube tutorials, I'd really appreciate if ya ppl would explain me some ground terminology. It bothers me because I don't often understand "tech-talk": It is needed for example to make a review. So if you wise ppl are willing to help me: give some good examples of what is a "kick", "percussion" etc. etc. If you post e.g. an YouTube video to explain a particular feature, I'd like to know the spot at which minute this feature appears Quote
recursion loop Posted June 12, 2016 Posted June 12, 2016 Kick is a bass drum, in most psy/goa tracks you hear it hitting constantly - it defines the beat. Percussion is (broadly) all drums which are not the kick, or sometimes it specifically refers to ethnic/tribal or noisy/metallic/industrial drums 3 Quote
Anu Katariina Posted June 12, 2016 Author Posted June 12, 2016 So, a kick is as we hear @ 0.40-0.53 and percussion is @ 0:55? Yeah, I am using AB as an example, sorry for those who ain't comfortable with that Quote
recursion loop Posted June 12, 2016 Posted June 12, 2016 So, a kick is as we hear @ 0.40-0.53 and percussion is @ 0:55?Yep. 1 Quote
Anu Katariina Posted June 12, 2016 Author Posted June 12, 2016 You made my day @ recursion loop. Thank you from the Bodom of my heart <3! Quote
Padmapani Posted June 12, 2016 Posted June 12, 2016 percussion is @ 0:55? i wouldn't refer to the hihats as percussion. hats are hats, even if they're technically percussion. in electronic music they fulfill a different role than other percussion instruments (drums, shakers, ...). but what people refer to as percussion can vary a lot. i've even heard someone talking about the kick as percussion... Quote
Anu Katariina Posted June 13, 2016 Author Posted June 13, 2016 i wouldn't refer to the hihats as percussion. hats are hats, even if they're technically percussion. in electronic music they fulfill a different role than other percussion instruments (drums, shakers, ...). but what people refer to as percussion can vary a lot. i've even heard someone talking about the kick as percussion... Necessary clarification Quote
Starkraver Posted June 13, 2016 Posted June 13, 2016 "How dare you spread my music via YouTube. I will sue you" 1 Quote
Padmapani Posted June 13, 2016 Posted June 13, 2016 "How dare you spread my music via YouTube. I will sue you" did i miss the latest filipe drama? Quote
Starkraver Posted June 13, 2016 Posted June 13, 2016 did i miss the latest filipe drama? Not much, few (read a lot of) posts on FB, playing around with Bandcamp. Goa sucks, removing all his albums from Bandcamp and Kunaki and oh this https://www.psynews.org/forums/topic/72040-submoon-records-new-promotional-emails/?view=getnewpost Quote
Anu Katariina Posted June 13, 2016 Author Posted June 13, 2016 Let's not turn this thread to Filipe, please. I have had enough of that drama. Music is good and goes for an example. I am interested in how you ppl describe the "vibrato" in the first 14 seconds of this track. Does this kind of a sound have a term? Quote
recursion loop Posted June 13, 2016 Posted June 13, 2016 It's a vibrato Or may be a trancegate, hard to tell what exactly was used because of the reverb tail. Vibrato is a very fast steady pattern where the sound doesn't dissapear completely but smoothly fades between the loud pieces, trancegate is more abrupt and may have more compelx pattern. A trance gate in purest form is here at 1:57 (sorry for extreme cheese) Oops, I guess I'll now have to explain what is reverb tail Quote
Paul Eye Posted June 13, 2016 Posted June 13, 2016 Vibrato is a very fast steady pattern where the sound doesn't dissapear completely but smoothly fades between the loud pieces Nope, that's tremolo, or amplitude modulation as a technical term. Vibrato is pitch modulation. 2 Quote
Paul Eye Posted June 13, 2016 Posted June 13, 2016 I am interested in how you ppl describe the "vibrato" in the first 14 seconds of this track. Does this kind of a sound have a term? A perfectly ordinary "trance gate", an effect where the sound turns on and (probably not completely) off in a rhythmic manner. There are numerous ways to do this but I won't get into them now (and I probably don't even know of all of them). 1 Quote
recursion loop Posted June 13, 2016 Posted June 13, 2016 Nope, that's tremolo, or amplitude modulation as a techical term. Vibrato is pitch modulation. Indeed, in English vibrato refers only to pitch modulation, I was confused by the Russian word which sounds the same but may mean both pitch modulation and amplitude modulation (tremolo). Quote
Anu Katariina Posted June 13, 2016 Author Posted June 13, 2016 This trance gate is so nostalgic to me. Used to listen to lots of normal trance in late 90's/early 2000's and used to love this specific feature: now I know what it is called! @ recursion loop: you don't need to explain what is a reverb tail: I know what is a reverb, falsely called echo, but echo bounces back and comes towards a person and reverb is like "acoustics" of the room continuing the sound. I'd like to know what is a lead. Because that term is so frequent: leads are like this and leads are like that Quote
recursion loop Posted June 13, 2016 Posted June 13, 2016 Lead is usually a synth which plays the main melody or the main riff. Quote
Anu Katariina Posted June 13, 2016 Author Posted June 13, 2016 Lead is usually a synth which plays the main melody or the main riff. Makes sense Still a few questions left but this night is devoted for football-not-soccer Quote
abasio Posted June 13, 2016 Posted June 13, 2016 Makes sense Still a few questions left but this night is devoted for football-not-soccer football-not-soccer; is that hand egg or Ozzie rules? In both Europe and America now, I thought it was all Football (is soccer) Quote
Anu Katariina Posted June 14, 2016 Author Posted June 14, 2016 football-not-soccer Richpa's tags in EURO 2016 thread Quote
Anu Katariina Posted June 14, 2016 Author Posted June 14, 2016 Any good example what are "auxiliaries"? Quote
recursion loop Posted June 14, 2016 Posted June 14, 2016 Could you give some context on this one? I can only think of "aux" channels in a mixer but I doubt this is what you are asking about. Quote
Anu Katariina Posted June 14, 2016 Author Posted June 14, 2016 Yes, i can.. but need to go some groceries shopping first Quote
Anu Katariina Posted June 14, 2016 Author Posted June 14, 2016 In this tutorial I am using stuff that I am familiar with..soo..this bonus track The Unkonwn Helions Guard is more than familiar to me..auxiliariaris appear e.g 1:14:38, even though this same "sound element" is merged at least a couple minutes before https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-P3W4W8bds Quote
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