Soft Cell - Tainted Love - Remake

Ajbbklyn · Post by **Ajbbklyn** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 7:24 pm

Everything old is new...

Gloria Jones - Tainted Love (1965)

glitchrock-buddha · Post by **glitchrock-buddha** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 7:42 pm

oh, CR78 eh? Ah yes, more like it. I forgot about that one!

I should have gone and listened to the track before I made my claim! It's been a while.

But at least it wasn't a 909.....

dom · Post by **dom** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 8:23 pm

momentuk wrote:Ahh dudes im loving the talk.. but umm where's the help :-( drums are covered now, thanks for that one dom :D umm its an exact remake of the soft cell version by the way, no things can be changed to our taste.. e.g not a remix..

the synclavier was used to make nearly everything, how can i target these sounds through abletons.. e.g for the horn, swells, pads, and that feking beeep beeep sound!

c'mon, the rest is not as hard: dig through synclavier sample libraries to see if there are any matching factory sounds (it wasn't the synclavier II, imho the II was also released after the record) but the sounds are all pretty standard, so you should find suitable stuff in a random bread&butter soundlibrary.

the beep beep: i'd start with a percussive square wave from whatever synth you can find, tweak the envelopes, drown it in reverb/delay.
if you aim for the last bit of authenticity get yourself the same old deltalab d4 that mike originally used for the sound: http://www.audioproz.com/AP.php?Prod=Delays

am i doing your homework here, son?

;)

dom

madlab · Post by **madlab** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 8:26 pm

Recently heard a reggae cover that was great !! but don't know the name of the artist...

dom · Post by **dom** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 8:29 pm

grand magneto.

Crash · Post by **Crash** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 8:38 pm

dom wrote:dom

Ooh, baby, baby
Where did our love go?
Ooh, please don't leave me
All by myself

lola · Post by **lola** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 8:40 pm

No offence but..
Damn, can't you just write a song yourself as good as tainted love ? so people in 20 years have still some inspiration from the past left to remix from good songs made in this era?
Looks like all good composers have left the building and only some re-mixers with software are left to remix 70's , 80's,90's music.

Would like to hear a new generation of good composers so get supriced again, instead of recycling all these 70's 80's 90's hits. we have enough from them

Be creative and innovate

Sorry for my in your eyes maybe negative post.

rozling · Post by **rozling** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 11:14 pm

Come on, be nice!

momentuk wrote:i have to remake soft cells tainted love for my music technology coursework at school

Obviously it's a technical excercise. As for useful comments on how to do this... well I don't really have any, except maybe the obvious auto/evelope filtered white noise for the intro. Organ seems to be fairly standard basic synthesized thing too.

Ajbbklyn wrote:Everything old is new...

Gloria Jones - Tainted Love (1965)

Never knew that was a cover! Brilliant, I'm delighted to find that

knotkranky · Post by **knotkranky** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 11:19 pm

Heck, don't recreate, create. Freak it man.

jamief · Post by **jamief** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 11:26 pm

heres some background for you

http://www.stereosociety.com/taintedlove.html

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 11:34 pm

Ajbbklyn wrote:Everything old is new...

Gloria Jones - Tainted Love (1965)

nice call!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSehtaY6k1U&fmt=18 <-- same song as above, just on youtube.

is that close enough to "Good Thing" by Fine Young Cannibals to call shenanigans on FYC?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrOek4z32Vg&fmt=18

dom · Post by **dom** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 1:57 pm

Actually i'm pretty curious how this one turned out...

*shameless bump*

Cheers,
Dom

ChiDJ · Post by **ChiDJ** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 2:16 pm

I personally prefer Coil's remix on their Scatology album. Dark and Sick. Love the pitched down clav sound.

rozling · Post by **rozling** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 2:16 pm

jamief wrote:heres some background for you

http://www.stereosociety.com/taintedlove.html

Thanks Dom, finally got a chance to read this ^

I really like this bit:

The mixing sessions were also a pleasure, aside from the 3am finish (remember, for me this was the second of two parallel projects). Although the track was long, most of the mixing and effects generation was done in real time. It was almost a theatre piece: lunging across the room to tweak a sound as the tape was whizzing by. You might think it set up for some gallery of performance art if you were looking on. I remember so clearly our focusing on the mix and then suddenly noticing that all of us in the control room were dancing as we were working on our feet, completely spontaneously and without being aware of it.

dom · Post by **dom** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 2:31 pm

rozling wrote:
jamief wrote:heres some background for you

http://www.stereosociety.com/taintedlove.html
Thanks Dom, finally got a chance to read this ^

I really like this bit:
The mixing sessions were also a pleasure, aside from the 3am finish (remember, for me this was the second of two parallel projects). Although the track was long, most of the mixing and effects generation was done in real time. It was almost a theatre piece: lunging across the room to tweak a sound as the tape was whizzing by. You might think it set up for some gallery of performance art if you were looking on. I remember so clearly our focusing on the mix and then suddenly noticing that all of us in the control room were dancing as we were working on our feet, completely spontaneously and without being aware of it.

Yepp, software just doesn't cut the mustard in this area without a bunch of proper controllers :-) There's nothing like performing your mix in a free dance...
You should see Robert putting on his dancing shoes before even touching the monodeck - check minute 1:30 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0cL8oxsZpA

Cheers,
Dom

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