rekid dirty sound

zakary · Post by **zakary** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 8:52 am

I'm really fond of rekid's lo-fi, slow mo house stuff. Would there be any tips on achieving such a dirty sound ?

Bitcrushing, degrading, compressing plugins ?

cheers

ilynx · Post by **ilynx** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 5:56 pm

i'm not sure about the specific effects you're talking about here, but a company called izotope has a FREE program to help in what you're trying to achieve. it's called Vinyl and you can find it here:
http://izotope.com/products/audio/vinyl/

SimonPHC · Post by **SimonPHC** » Sat Nov 08, 2008 1:20 am

Matthew Edwards is a productions genius. I'm sure he just uses his ears and his talent with something obvious as say Logic or Live.

Plus he's a vinyl collector, a mad one too. So the chance some mad sound is actually just the right sample with just the right amount of whatever on top is very big.

zakary · Post by **zakary** » Sat Nov 08, 2008 10:34 am

Yep Matthew Edwards must be a production genius, i really like the character of his dubby sound. I like his quiet village project as well.

Dudes like him, Moodymann, Theo Parish, Idjut Boys, Dj Harvey sample like hell so i guess part of their sound comes from the original recording.

I suppose experimenting will get me there, anything i do has a very "clear" sound.

cheers !

morerecords · Post by **morerecords** » Sat Nov 08, 2008 6:01 pm

his engineer plays a big part too. Most pros use a pro engineer and a real studio for mixdown

zakary · Post by **zakary** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 10:26 am

morerecords wrote:his engineer plays a big part too. Most pros use a pro engineer and a real studio for mixdown

great engineer if he's using one, everything "sits" in the right place

morerecords · Post by **morerecords** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 3:17 pm

thats the analog console- even a behringerwill help you out greatly in that regard...

zakary · Post by **zakary** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 2:39 pm

just found this article of matt talking about his studio work

http://www.xlr8r.com/features/2007/09/s ... tt-edwards

lola · Post by **lola** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 2:58 pm

morerecords wrote:thats the analog console- even a behringerwill help you out greatly in that regard...

lol

Considering the headroom and it's bad bad preamps it won't.
Btw...vst in is vst out, it's about the source , what you put in.

tw1nstates · Post by **tw1nstates** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 3:37 pm

fruity loops and buzz eh?

I wonder if he's come on over to our side yet?

That was a while ago that interview. . .

ollyb303 · Post by **ollyb303** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 3:54 pm

lola wrote:
morerecords wrote:thats the analog console- even a behringerwill help you out greatly in that regard...
lol

Considering the headroom and it's bad bad preamps it won't.
Btw...vst in is vst out, it's about the source , what you put in.

LOL. I have an old Eurorack console and I like it!

forge · Post by **forge** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 5:09 pm

tw1nstates wrote:fruity loops and buzz eh?

I wonder if he's come on over to our side yet?

That was a while ago that interview. . .

Toby Tobias on Rekids is a good friend of mine and we even released a track together some years back - he uses Ableton - I'm usually the one setting it up on his machine!

it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of those guys use Ableton

he's a big sample user - from all kinds of obscure 70s and 80s disco/funk records, so a lot of the grit in his case is from the original vinyl - can't say about the others, but could probably ask

SimonPHC · Post by **SimonPHC** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 6:03 pm

morerecords wrote:thats the analog console

I call bs. He just uses Cubase and mixes 'in the box'.

morerecords · Post by **morerecords** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 7:38 pm

and then he sends the stems to a pro mastering engineer who assembles them

zakary · Post by **zakary** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 7:45 pm

tw1nstates wrote:fruity loops and buzz eh?

I wonder if he's come on over to our side yet?

That was a while ago that interview. . .

he's doing alright !