I’d really like a tutorial on how to make the Tensnake style sound. I’ve checked out the Aeroplane one and it’s not really the same. I’m really interested in how to get that mid nineties house style that he incorporates.
Tensnake - Something About You (Official Video) - YouTube
Tensnake - Coma Cat - YouTube
Even some advice on what kind of drum samples I should be using would be great, should I be using Analogue style drums?
Thanks
Alan
This is from an interview he did about comacat
How did the track begin?
The idea with ‘Coma Cat’ was to recreate an old memory, the exciting moment when you discover a really great tune for the first time. The kind of track you play 20 times a day and when it’s over you play it again. As far as I remember it took three days to produce – from the very first idea to the final mixdown.
How did it come together?
I produced it in my really basic home studio, using Ableton Live as a sequencer. The beats were programmed with Native Instruments Maschine, except the finger-snap, which is a very characteristic drumset sound from the Korg M1. (I used the plugin version, not the original synth). The M1 was used on many house tracks from the 90s by the way; the piano is also great. The bassline is from a Moog Voyager; as far as I remember I used a factory preset and tweaked it a little. The lead sound is actually a layered sound. I used the Jupiter 8 Arturia soft synth to get the old-skool analogue bell/steel drum sound and doubled it with a Marimba-like preset sound from my favourite FM synth, the Yamaha TX81Z. The vocal sample is from some random r’n’b sample CD, I just cut it and added some harmonies using Melodyne.
How did you get it to sound so old?
In the 90s people couldn’t afford a compressor for each track; the sound was way more open, but also also kind of rougher sometimes. I used the UAD 4K SSL plug-in on the main stereo signal to tighten things a little. The mix-down was also done in Ableton Live. I didn’t use too much compression so it would sound quite original.
Thanks for the reply.
I’ll check the plug ins he mentions.
A tutorial would still be great though!!
Ant can you copy the link to the interview mate…
[quote]L_TRAIN (25/06/2011)[hr]Ant can you copy the link to the interview mate…;)[/quote]
I don’t think it is online, it was from Mixmag, I got emailed the copy from a friend who did the interview. What I copied was the whole text, it was from the “Get that sound” section in the magazine, which is only quarter page I think.
no problemo…