Dabbler - Ali Baba (Dub)

[dabbler]

http://www.nwdnb.bc.ca/user/csquared/Dabbler-AliBaba(Clip).mp3

[Skip EZ]

Not workin Jay fuck get it straight.

[dabbler]

is now

[dangamouse]

nice summery jump up vibs man

is this geting a release?

[dabbler]

not signed yet, hoping it might get picked up, still shoppin it around.

[Van Tek]

sounds kind of like Congo Natty's old tunes, but with less little sound effect fills than he'd use
the bassline sounds nice and thick for sure... is it a sine wave with heavy compression?
good work overall :D

[miSsy_chriSsy]

SICK SICK SICK!

i go jogging to this track <3 :)

[C_squared]

ahhh junglist!

big ups dabbs, totally feeling this tune. Hope it gets signed man.

[dabbler]

Originally Posted by Thanatos

sounds kind of like Congo Natty's old tunes, but with less little sound effect fills than he'd use
the bassline sounds nice and thick for sure... is it a sine wave with heavy compression?
good work overall :D

double detuned sine, very little compression, lots of dist(wet/dry mix) and filters

-and the breaks sound far better than any congo natty. :P
(congo natty stuff sucks, really shoddy production overall)

[decypher]

Nice and crispy drums, whats that really high end shaker type sound from the R field. Almost sounds like a little chirp/scrape.

A real groovin tune man, feelin this for sure.

[mapleleaf4ever]

Nice! Time for a chair Groove... :D *flails*

[dj_soo]

still waiting for my copy :D

good shit

[dabbler]

^^msg me when you are able to accept a file then!

[Lady Dame]

i like it. It makes me smile.

[(val)Liam]

sampled flutes and guitars?

[dabbler]

yup, it's a riddim by john holt recorded in 1976,
a song called (obviously) "ali baba"

[B.Traits]

no matter where i am, every time i play this tune it goes off!!!!
Its coming to the UK with me, dont u worry, EUROPE INVASION

[inside]

Great Summer tune! I like this one much more then your last one=)

[TheCooker]

Great track, makes me want hot summer weather!!

[Ryan Ross]

nice work man, well put together for sure. Funk-ay!

[dabbler]

thnx, it's getting pretty good reaction everywhere, by far the best thing i've done yet. more dubby goodness forthcoming this summer, and some deeper stuff too.

[Van Tek]

really shoddy production overall

I won't disagree with u there, but I like his shit despite that... it's got a nice vibe to it and I like some of the fills he uses, even if they're simple things like the sound of a kazoo being blown, but pitched up a bit

did you program your drums from scratch or did you cut up drum loops and reprogram the hits to your liking? I find that a combination of the two can sound awesome :D

nice work on that bass sound... I gotta try something like that for some breaks... what kind of tool did you use for the distortion? generally I use either Guitar Rig or Cubase Quadrafuzz... I'd like to bring some more original style sounds into my tunes... sick of all the detuned square waves and saws... there's only so many ways u can use that shit til u wanna throw ur computer out the window, LoL

[dabbler]

the drums are a combination of approx 8 breaks, maybe 9 or 10, can't really remember, i mixed multiple breaks together into "master layered breaks" and did that a few times until i was happy with the sound. as to bass effects...
in logic, in order on bus 1 (bass) is
low cut (36 hz)/autofilter/compressor/overdrive dist./expander/fat eq

then on a really low mix of wet/dry (i mean REALLY low) bus 4 has
another low cut (120hz) and dist.

the breaks only really came together the week of the final mixdown, took me a LONG time, and they still don't sound quite the way i wanted them to :(

[Van Tek]

yeh I know all about having beats not come out the way u intend... it's hard to make good drums that really move with a track in the right ways

[dabbler]

yeah, i'm trying to get that shy fx feel, really high energy, still working on it.