Really cool interviews with Luke Slater & Donnacha Costello
LS [url]Feature articles & interviews ⟋ RA
DC http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1065
Have a lot of respect for Slater after reading that 
Hi, i’m from Moscow,Russia, this place is very cool )) my english is very baaaad, but i want to be here : D you are posting cool techno tracks in this thread? i really need some tips, my techno is not sounding like good studio tracks : ( but i love techno music so much, detroit techno, “right” dub techno (Rod Modell, Basic Channel), tresor label, minus and more more )))
Hey Man…
Welcome to the forums… hopefully we’ll see a bit more of you around!
Your english is fine Mate 
For Dub Techno stuff - Check this Guy:
[url]http://www.youtube.com/user/atabeylive[/url]
He’s got lots of vids on the subject - watch them all! :D
Also do a search on YT for Dub Techno tutorials… there are quite a few. Theres a few in Reason, FL & Logic which are pretty impressive.
Also… some others here:
[quote]BAC9 (27/06/2011)[hr]Hi, i’m from Moscow,Russia, this place is very cool )) my english is very baaaad, but i want to be here : D you are posting cool techno tracks in this thread? i really need some tips, my techno is not sounding like good studio tracks : ( but i love techno music so much, detroit techno, “right” dub techno (Rod Modell, Basic Channel), tresor label, minus and more more )))[/quote]
Welcome mate
As ICN said yeah check those out here we have a few threads too
For tracks
[url]http://forums.sonicacademy.com/Topic48306-13-1.aspx[/url]
[url]http://forums.sonicacademy.com/Topic30075-13-1.aspx[/url]
Been a little quiet posting here recently as very busy
Also these for tips and general madness
[url]http://forums.sonicacademy.com/Topic31980-33-1.aspx[/url]
[url]http://forums.sonicacademy.com/Topic64841-33-1.aspx[/url]
Also if you post your tracks here someone if not myself will give you advice or guidance
[url]http://forums.sonicacademy.com/Forum11-1.aspx[/url]
If your new to production I would really recommend you subscribe as the vids are all very informative regardless what genre you like - but there are a few techno tutorials but you can even find useful tips in other genre tutorials
[quote]ICN (27/06/2011)[hr]Hey Man…
Welcome to the forums… hopefully we’ll see a bit more of you around!
Your english is fine Mate
For Dub Techno stuff - Check this Guy:
[url]http://www.youtube.com/user/atabeylive[/url]
[/quote]
i just found that youtube channel today and was gonna post the links tonight but you beat me to it lol:D
deffo worth checking them out;)
found these tonight not had chance to browse through them yet but thought i’d post the link anyway:)
http://spunkfacesamplers.com/sample-packs/underground-minimal/
i know everyone loves free samples lol;)
[quote]chris17 (27/06/2011)[hr]
i just found that youtube channel today and was gonna post the links tonight but you beat me to it lol:D
deffo worth checking them out;)[/quote]
Yeah… he’s a really nice Guy as well. I’ve chatted to him a couple of times & he’s v.cool.
If theres anything you want to see - drop him line through YT… If he can do it, he’ll oblige.
[quote]ICN (27/06/2011)[hr][quote]chris17 (27/06/2011)[hr]
i just found that youtube channel today and was gonna post the links tonight but you beat me to it lol:D
deffo worth checking them out;)[/quote]
Yeah… he’s a really nice Guy as well. I’ve chatted to him a couple of times & he’s v.cool.
If theres anything you want to see - drop him line through YT… If he can do it, he’ll oblige.[/quote]
Tell him you will buy him a big bag of weed :P;)
haha!
I DL them & play them 30x :laugh:
[quote]ICN (27/06/2011)[hr]haha!
I DL them & play them 30x :laugh:[/quote]
Or make a very large pot of tea and a very long spl**f;)
Thank God I found a Tut on YT on how to make Meth from around the same time as these
Picked up a Space Echo today… Cat hasnt got off it since I brought it home, she’s fkn jealous. Just cos I was away for a few hours - Seriously! 
Absolutely beautiful thing. I havent even seen if it works apart from turning it on (The Space Echo, that is… 
) - But I dont give a fk if it does or not… Its fkn class.
Its a little wrinkly - but its been working. Thats to be expected.
Turns out that it used to belong to a Guy that my Dad worked with years ago. Small world. Would be interesting to know the all the fkn connections that you dont know you have
And btw… thats a Basil Plant
Wow that is beautiful! Congrats on the find!
I’m new to the forum as well, I hail from Chicago. I love techno, mainly the harder/darker stuff like Liebing, Beyer, Surgeon ect ect ect. I’ve been making techno for 14 years as a side hobby but never put much effort into it. Lately a bunch of people have been pushing me to get serious so here I am!
I’ve already improved ten fold just from watching the tutorials, things like mastering escaped me and now they are finally making sense!
I’m a huge CLR podcast fan and try to get out and see Chris and Co. every time they are near and just wanted to say hi to those in the thread! I’ve been going back through and reading everything in this thread as well, some real cool tips for sure!
I guess I need a question somewhere in here so here it is… in many “modern” techno songs there are pads or synths or post FX stabs that come in very rarely that are literally louder than the whole rest of the track, yet they don’t sound out of place.
Sometimes it’s a minor chord pad sound, sometimes it’s a “stressed-metal” sound, but they are always SEARING above the rest of the song. They usually have a long tail of reverb/delay… but mine never sit in the mix right. I’ll either make you deaf or it doesn’t have the impact I’m looking for.
The sounds are punctuated somehow, and sound “hyper real” if that makes any sense. I’m gonna go scour soundcloud to find an example now… but either way cheers, this forum/you guys rock!
welcome to the forum man, youve found the right place!!
post up some youtube vids of the stuff you mentioned above
oh and youll need to get yourself an avatar :hehe:
I know this was posted last year about the beatelite templates but id thought id share my experience. I went ahead and bought the progressive house one but when I got it, it didn’t sound that clean and sounded very gritty and not finished. So I sent an email just stating i was giving feedback and this would help them develop better templates in the future.
I got a quick reply and it basically said something like, they think its a excellently mixed track and the guy who made it is massive in dance music. Not the sort of response i was looking for!
Also be aware that you only have 5 days from purchase to download them and they expire, so make sure you back up on a hard drive or somewhere else just in case. You are also only allowed 3 downloads. I asked about this and why only 5 days etc and as of yet I havent even had a reply and its been well over a week now so looks like they have my money and dont really care about the service now, so just be aware guys…
So are they sh!t Darren, or great?
[quote]ICN (31/07/2011)[hr]So are they sh!t Darren, or great?[/quote]
Well, i would say ive maybe learned a couple of things but for the price your better off with Sonic Academy, at least the videos teach you, as opposed to Beatelite, all you get is a template, no videos teaching you, i suppose you could just tweak the settings, eq’s etc but every track is different so unless you wanna keep buying templates for each genre id say stick to SA.
There’s already templates on the ableton website for minus as well as a lot of other stuff -free. It was a nice peak into how they make their tunes, have tried to incorporate what they’re doing into my tracks now.
pokes head in
Haven’t been on SA for aaaaages and am back in the studio!
How’s my techno militia buddies then?
[quote]nohero (16/08/2011)[hr]
How’s my techno militia buddies then?
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Sweet as nut mate