Daniel, <IMG SRC="
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http://www.interruptor.ch/cgi-bin/discu ... /happy.gif" ALT=":)">, heh heh But not the "SHAKER" !!!!! hah hah, the shaker is actually a real thing - it's a two-bucks plastic egg-shaker, I have two of them in the studio ...rofl. <BR>True, I have often lately used some pretty much 'uncool' sounds here and there in newer productions. I have a reason for it, but really if I start to explain it why, it would make much sense, because common sense would lead producer to looking for some "new" and "cool" or so-called "up-to-date" sounds, which I feel like, - I've got over it. Here's simple explanation: imagin, if you are trying to create(or say, imitate) the sound of some reggae-performing 'small-town'-band, then you can imagin, that this little band may not have any "cool sounds in the pocked", so what will this band sounds like? Maybe something, like simple bass, drums and some "cheap synth", e-pianos and alike. See what I mean? <BR>****** <BR>About vocals. <BR>Everything on this album - 100% Dr. ZEE, heh heh, - means me <IMG SRC="
http://www.interruptor.ch/cgi-bin/discu ... /happy.gif" ALT=":)"> Every track on this album have some voicing, some speaking, some barding and some actually may I say 'singing' - I am a lousy singer, so man, I would not really call it singing... I call it voicing <IMG SRC="
http://www.interruptor.ch/cgi-bin/discu ... /happy.gif" ALT=":)"> Well, couple of songs on this album are actually written songs with mini-poetry-lyrics ("In The Middle Of Nowhere", "Jah Gave Me Space", "Tonight The Sun Will Shadow It's Eyes" (this song is actually a hybrid of pop-song and trip-hop with reggae-based base-line)). <BR>******* <BR>Vocals on "Wicked Roots Dub". <BR>Yeah, these vocals are 'wicked', I guess, and what you hear in the track is the result of pretty 'wicked' technical chain. Shorty: First I was really randomly "singing" various "oyyee-haaaa, ahhhhaa, ohhhoo(s)" etc.... I was singing it through Digitech Studio-Quad processor (some combination of digital phaser/slicht pitch-shift/delay). But I was recording to analog Cassette tape (Dennon-770R). Dennon-770R has 12%-pitch control, so then I've played it back while playing back drum/basse-line sequence, so I could adjust the pitch(speed of the tape) to the point when voice is sort-of tuned to the bass-line. <BR>Next, I've recorded some fragments from the tape to the computer (to the Cakewalk ProAudio sequence), also while recording I was turning tape's pith knob up/down here and there (you can hear some of this actually at the begining and at the end of the track, where it feels like voices accelerate and at the end - slow-down). <BR>Then I did allots of digital cut, create clips, move takes around on screen etc... so the random recordings would line up as it is a sort of "singing to the riddim". This kind of manipulation only can be done in midi-sequence/audio Computer application. <BR>Well, at the end, I plyed all this combo back - all the sounds going through groups on analog mixing desk, so I also could apply some final eq-ing etc, also was sending vocals and some other portions of the mix through delays here and there in real time while mixing down. <BR> <BR>btw, You can listen to HiFi or download the track, here is the direct link: <BR><A HREF="
http://artists.mp3s.com/artist_song/3141/3141396.html" TARGET="_blank">WICKED ROOTS DUB Play HiFi LoFi Download</A>, <BR>these vocals sounds to me like some sort of fusion of american indians and some mid-east type of stuff - or really hard to say... <IMG SRC="
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