I came across this artist Victor Rice:
MySpace.com - Victor Rice - São Paulo, SP - Reggae / Dub / Ska - www.myspace.com/victorrice
He makes wicked dub style tracks, and tours the world with his sound system!! Nice... Turns out, he's here on the forum. I asked him if he would answer some questions, hope I can do that here in the "so little time" section...
He Victor, it seems you got your 70ies type dub productions skills down. Wicked! I hope you can answer some of my questions:
- Looking at the youtube video's... You structure the tracks before you put them on tape. You do that on the computer? You track the songs first digital, and then put them to tape? Or am I hearing samples?
- If it's real drums and bass, can you tell me a little how you track and/or mix them? I'm asking for I have tried to get some of that king tubby phatness into my mixes (like you seem to have in the VR_Drum Thief_mp3 from your website), but allways when I turn up the kick or the bass too loud, the mid/highs suffer... you know... Do you have a lot of vintage stuff, or not so much? Using dynamic mic's on the drums?
Like you stated before there is no one way, and it's allways different... just wanted to know how you think you get that driving punch. Might be the mixer... might be the fact that you are from Brazil.
thanks,
miqer