| none of the above mentioned things...
industrial music is more of a conceptual attitude so to speak than a production method. the same basic production methods you would use for recording a jazz trio or a death metal band apply equally well. what i mean by this is if you are recording a guitar you concentrate at the guitar as to what it sounds like and at the mixer, recording device as to how to go about to best capture that sound.
industrial music is more about how you feel about something your writing about than any specific sound source or effect etc...
industrial can cover scraping and banging on actual industrial appliances ala
einsturzende nuebauten
or lyrics portraying a drab and bleak lifestyle in a modernized world ala
nitzer ebb
it can range in actual musical style from trance to euro disco to metal to jazz or be a combo of any or all of those.
first thing you need to do is worry about the song you want to write, then worry about how to portray it the way you want (or as close as you can get within your budget)
there is no magic item that will "sound industrial". you can take a casio keyboard and a cheap free vsti effect and get it to make industrial music. |