STBB #708

[per.du]

Bigups to all of you, been laughing my ass of listening to your beats!

Had the mix ready yesterday time, but all of a sudden Live crashed and - of course - I forgot to save. The restore feature kinda worked, but all the settings on VST FX were gone, so I had to get back to the start of mixing. Pretty happy how it turned out nevertheless, specially since I though I started an impossible challenge in the first place.
Came back to the project this afternoon and thought I’d better write down my approach to make it more understandable how I got this thing together, so below is a list of all the tracks besides the non sample-drums in this beat:

Sample Use
DRUMS: 2 Layers of The „Duck playing drums“ Samples
BASS:
⁃ Main Bass is the Lynx Cat Sample, heavily distorted, filtered and some rbass.
⁃ Bass Layer 1: Walrus Sample, pitched, eq’d and a phaser
⁃ Bass Layer 2: The acapella part in the end, pitched and eq’d
LEAD/„KEYS“:
⁃ The organ-like sounding chords is the walrus sample again (~0:26) made to a synth with simpler, then some eq, played in midi
⁃ Drone sounding lead is from the Walrus Sample again, but a bigger chop,
⁃ The alarm sound is actually the same sound described in the point above, however different FX and pitch
⁃ there is a barely audible hit in the melody that came from the hyena laugh
⁃ Last but not least, the plucky sounding beat thing is the lynx cat sample from 0:08 with fx and played in midi
Well and of course there are the acapella vocal chops.

Hope you enjoy!

 

[ruedenz]

This was an exciting but stressful one! As soon as I heard that walrus, I was instantly like "man this sounds like a stupid skrillex dubstep bassline....wait a minute...". No way out from there on. Haven't done this kind of music in ages. I had a bit of a dubstep phase around 2007-2010, when it was still kinda young and fresh (at least for me). "How do I get that wobble sound!? Aaah, LFO. Wait, what is that?" Definitely learned a thing or too. Really liked all that earlier dubstep stuff, benga, skream, distance, rusko...but that sounded really different then what that "next dubstep wave" brought with it. not hating, judging or anything.
Anyhow, the buildup, mixing, sounds, everything seems so different from hip hop tracks, so it was a real pain in the ass to get something going. Also, you need tons of bass, synths, and fx. pretty much everything we were NOT allowed to use. So I put some energy in getting lowends of the samples. made synths by microsampling. even recorded my voice (phew, thanks per.du for allowing that at least ) for transition sounds. super exhausted now but happy I got something. Attention: It might sound really crappy, but it's supposed to do that I guess. Well, great challenge, haven't had that much fun and inspiration in a minute, thx for this heavy setup!

So here we are, back to the roots:

 

[JoaGymshoe]

yoww.. popek made this dope beat and sent me the stems.
I didn't have too much time this week so I added an existing aca..worked on the mix and made some little changes.

it's wild 'n fun!

 

[LarryByrd]

This ended up being kinda fun actually.. I used:

-- the cat meow to make the transition sound
-- the Walrus "whistle" to make the main instrument in the chorus
-- the Hyena "sigh" to make the bass

 

[keiths lard]

It was fun but an absolute mess ha. 1 micro chop & a couple of the animal sounds.

 

[Lalaina]

At first I was like "WTF?!" and now, I feel like I just have play to lego.

Here the monster. Thanks for the cool chalenge, and the accap !

There a walrus for the bass, and a lynx for keyboard

 

[frenchfrywill]

This was a wild one! Had a lot of fun trying to make those samples usable. Mostly played with the Lynx, a bit of the Hyena, sampled my own voice for the bass, got a bit of both duck samples deep in there and of course the Boy. Thanks for the challenge.

 

[Godall]

That was hella fun love twisting samples up like that

 

[Granny David]

Congrats Per.du. This was a very different and interesting challenge!

Thanks to Mzfk for carrying me through this week!

 

[Renzo Garcia]

Yo.. Its been a minute.. Hope everyone is doing alreet

Wish I started this earlier/had more time.. Big ups for the rules & recordings Per.Du.. right up my street..Hard challenge, learnt a lot and really enjoyed the process. Computer kept on crashing every 2 minutes.. haha even when bouncing and disarming :lol:

Shyeeet.. Better hurry up or I'll miss the deadline.

Only outside audio used were drum breaks and found-sound/foley for my beat all bass and pads were from all of zi animals and humans


Bless up you lot x

 

[Crufro]

Oh no! I had finished this on Monday. Forgot to post it. ;-;
Here's a late submission. Would appreciate it if you gave it a listen. Can't wait to hear all your tracks!

Microsampling of audio files provided. No external drum sounds/synthesizers used.