Skol303 Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 (edited) To cut a long story slightly shorter... we've had the builders in at home and as a consequence my desktop 'puter and other gadgets have been boxed away out of reach. In the meantime, I've been tinkering with some of the music apps on my iPhone and ended up producing this little ditty. It basically started with a simple (and repetitive!) riff that I'd been playing with one evening. I recorded several minutes worth of this using the Amplitube app, playing to a click, and then set about adding some percussion, samples and vocals over the top - all brought together using an app called Nanostudio. I did admittedly have to splice and adjust the pitch/tempo of the vocals and other samples manually using Audacity on my laptop, and then faff around loading them back onto my phone...but other than that it's a bona fide iPhone production! The vox themselves are - ahem - 'borrowed' from Biggie Smalls and Mos Def: not my favourite rappers if I'm honest, but they seemed to fit the swing of the track. The project took roughly 3-4 hours from start to finish. Overall, the quality ain't great, there are plenty of bum notes in my playing and the tune itself is kinda one-dimensional... but I'm quite pleased with it nonetheless - for something made on a mobile phone!! Anyway, enough waffle. Have a listen if you're interested. [CAUTION: the vocals come with a 'parental advisory' sticker, in case you were thinking of sitting down and listening to this with your nearest and dearest over a nice cup of cocoa] [url="http://soundcloud.com/skollob/hypnomatics"]http://soundcloud.com/skollob/hypnomatics[/url] All feedback welcome: like it or loathe it - let me know. PS: for anyone interested, the shonky bassline is played on a self-defretted Hohner Rockwood LX90B... that's pure quality right there! Trades for Alembics or similar may be considered Edited May 25, 2011 by Skol303 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatgoogle Posted May 30, 2011 Share Posted May 30, 2011 Really liked it. Can i asked how you removed the vocals from the original tracks. Or did you get hold of samples of them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skol303 Posted May 31, 2011 Author Share Posted May 31, 2011 Cheers fella! Nope, I cheated with the vocals and used acapellas from my collection. You can probably find them on YouTube if you're interested in doing something similar. Another very useful resource I've found for acapellas is this website: [url="http://www.acapellas4u.co.uk/"]http://www.acapellas4u.co.uk/[/url] (obviously for non-commercial purposes only!) I have made some DIY acapellas in the past but it's not easy, as I'm sure you're aware... I found that it helps to have some fairly hefty EQ software, or alternatively, an instrumental copy of the track which you can then use to 'chop out' the instruments using a process called phase cancellation (which is very fiddly but by far the best method). Anyway, glad you like the track. I'm still tinkering with a few other iPhone efforts which I might post here once they're finished. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urb Posted May 31, 2011 Share Posted May 31, 2011 Rockin' man - really like it - the bass is cool too M Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skol303 Posted May 31, 2011 Author Share Posted May 31, 2011 ^ Thanks, Mike! That's praise indeed coming from someone with your skills. The bassline is a bi-product of me listening to a lot of jazz recently, inspired by the thread on Basschat no less! I'm going to re-record the track once I get my desktop 'puter set up again. I'll post an updated copy here when I get round to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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