that photek break

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Ive set up a really minimal and poor youtube vid about that break :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKmNfWOMq4o

Grin

Funny, I know, but please link/embed it everywhere Grin

We will discover that sh/t Grin !!!
As you maybe now, I wont give up.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/jwm5r8

Check this link please, everything is from a well known break, except the kick...
And honestly, this kick is sh*t...

Could you recommend me a good kick pack (for exs Grin).

And NO, I did not discover the break, just did not finish any tune in this year...I spend all of my studio time to design my own photek break, recreate it etc.
So this one is a well known break, but you wont believe if I tell you which one...

Lot of eqing, compressing, sequencing, etc...lot of work...

Just that damn kick Icon_sad
i could really like your break if the dominant snare was less scratchy/distorted. Smile maybe try tightening the envelop on the kick and pulling it down in volume a tad. the kick is a bit synthetic feeling, what about replacing the 200 hz and lower range with kicks from old sweat or alligator boogaloo?
The snare will stay, cause I really do not have the original one GrinGrinGrin

The kick is synthetic yes, but will take a look in my library Grin
wasn't saying the snare needed to go. just eq a tad or take off the distortion. that's all i meant Wink
otherwise, get to making something with that sweetness Xyxthumbs
TVG Wrote:wasn't saying the snare needed to go. just eq a tad or take off the distortion. that's all i meant Wink
otherwise, get to making something with that sweetness Xyxthumbs
That is what I mean under I do no have the original Grin
I started tweaking this break 3-4 months ago :S
In case I really dont know what have I done on it GrinGrinGrin
Anyway, Ive a cleaner version, and put it with a cleaner channel strip in logic, and found a nice kick on Soniccouture's Konkrete pack.
Ive add recently a stereo tremolo, with a very small dry/wet %, and just on the higher part of the break...and now its soooooooooo bright and "open" Grin
Hahm...

go back to the studio, clean the dust from my k-station, and tweak some bass...and back to my friends dusty old attics to find more jazz piano stuffs Grin
snaper Wrote:So this one is a well known break, but you wont believe if I tell you which one...

which one? it sure sounds like the photek break! :P
scart ridge Wrote:
snaper Wrote:So this one is a well known break, but you wont believe if I tell you which one...

which one? it sure sounds like the photek break! :P

Guess which one...you have 3 shots, and after I will tell ya' Grin
snaper Wrote:
scart ridge Wrote:
snaper Wrote:So this one is a well known break, but you wont believe if I tell you which one...

which one? it sure sounds like the photek break! :P

Guess which one...you have 3 shots, and after I will tell ya' Grin

amen? LOLOLOL
scart ridge Wrote:
snaper Wrote:Guess which one...you have 3 shots, and after I will tell ya' Grin

amen? LOLOLOL

Nope...Okay, its from James Brown...
is it by hoochie and the blowfish?
Fada Wrote:is it by hoochie and the blowfish?

Nope, Its from James Brown, its the soul pride break.
whoa Eek i know it's probably not the one, but that's so close!
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Abend Wrote:Sapo - Been Had

Sexy!

record is out of my price range though:

http://www.discogs.com/sell/list?release...6149&ev=rb

going to have to keep my eyes open Smile
Yes, you can make your own photek break, but in case the break what we searching for is one lopp from a record Icon_sad
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I see.

I think I know what you mean. It is possible to add some extra hits from other break, but the snare the kick the hihats, is from one breakbeat loop. (Read back a few pages or just check the tune called DustBall from Fracture, the ONE who knows the source of that breakbeat...I believe him Grin)

Anyway, of course its possible to recreate it, check the sample what Ive linked above.

Sick breaks at all Grin
I am looking forward to hearing your crime rhodes photek inspired tune... seems like you have a clear idea what you are after...
Quote:I've got my own photek breaks, YES, I've recreated almost 100% the "clangy one" from rigns around saturn, and ufo. Trust me, its not based on that break what Fracture discoverd. Just slow it down (from smoke rings), you will realize that its from Lyn Collins. Just check the tamb sounds.

I sort of gave up on searching for this break a while ago, hell, I probably wouldn't use it in a track anyways. There's not much sense in recreating something another bloke did 14 years ago Wink

Quote:Then load up your copy of the think break, and play with freq/pitch shift, and timstreetch...

trust me Grin

Lol I really wanna trust you (I do!), but I can hardly believe it's the Think break... If so, there's FAR more being done than simple timestretching/pitchshifting. The kickdrum actually has that certain ring to it.

What about posting the snare of your Photek break? I'd really like to hear if they're really (almost) identical Xyxthumbs
Ashtonron Wrote:I am looking forward to hearing your crime rhodes photek inspired tune... seems like you have a clear idea what you are after...

I did no finished that tune Icon_sad
Im just boring with dark themes, and last month I discovered that I already have a lot of synths in here Grin
Now Im working on an old skool good looking like stuff...but how knows...maybe I cant finish that too...maybe I should give up producing for while and play PS2 all day long GrinGrinGrin
what an epic (and entertaining thread..)
snaper- big ups for your persistence!!! CoolCool

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