First off, Donuts was FINISHED in the hospital, not done completely there.Ģnd! Side-Chain compression is not adding compression to a whole track to make the super loud kick duck down the whole track. unfortunately, there's actually a lot of weird superlative mythologizing surrounding dilla which can be fairly misleading. Just saying this so that the discussion doesn't get constrained to the sp303. one of the stones throw guys says dilla was mostly editing on his laptop and in some documentary on YouTube a while back i recall some other dude saying that a rather small percentage of the finished product was done in the hospital with the 303/portable record player. There are conflicting accounts about what was going on in that hospital though. The answer is simply aggressive mix-bus compression. Sampler-related forums are littered with ducking threads ("how do you get that ducking sound on an old-school sampler?"). And so obviously anything that is happening at the same time as the kick is going to get pulled down as well. What I know for sure is that if you compress an entire tune and you have a fat kick then the compressor is gonna be extremely sensitive to the kick (or any low-end). If it is indeed true that Donuts was made in a hospital bed and Dilla was using hardware samplers, then there probably isn't proper sidechain compression on Donuts (I don't own an MPC but from what I know of them this wouldn't be a feature I own an SP-303 and there isn't a proper sidechain feature it is possible he used something else, of course). Otherwise it sounds like you're just talking about side chain compression? Or am I not following what you mean? Wait, are you assuming the kick drum is part of the original track? Software Plugins/techniques most appreciated. I realize that hardware compressors and an mpc would probably be more authentic, but try to avoid gear recommendations in the thread.
#J dilla produced songs how to
It seems simple on the surface but in my efforts to try and recreate what he's doing it never sounds as good.Īnybody have success trying to make plundered/sample based music like this? I remember watmm user Blicero posted some of his Donuts like beats once and they sounded really nice, but I havent seen him post here for at least a year.Įdit: In general I'm looking at how to do this entirely on a computer. Most of the time it has a very nice coherency where it feels as if the bass was part of the original track. My question is basically how did J Dilla manage to get such nice bass and meat off of the stuff he was sampling from? It sounds to me like on almost every song he's sampling a bass drum from something else and using it to side chain compress a background layer. So I've returned to Donuts recently and the production is very impressive.
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