Hip Hop Lesson, Part 2

[dariusk]

I felt like putting together another lesson, so here we go.

LESSON 2: FILTERED BASSThis lesson is about a technique that was popular in the early to mid '90s (the golden age of hip hop, in my opinion). Referred to by some as "filtered bass", this is essentially where you take an old soul record and apply a low-pass filter to it, making the bass

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[dariusk]

It's the Google Reader embedded mp3 player. Just copy the code from source and replace the mp3 URL (like I need to tell you that).

Two things to note: it's really finicky with layouts, which is why there's weird spacing around the player. I haven't figured out how to fix that. Also, you need to make sure that within a single post, you give a unique embed-id to each thing you're embedding (although that's an LJ thing, independent of this mp3 player).

[dariusk]

Oh and it's like THE ONLY THING that I can find that reliably embeds mp3s on LJ that I have uploaded to my own hosting.

[bambina_cricket]

That sounds pretty awesome. I would also find the frequency range of the vocals, and turn those frequencies down in the other tracks to give the vocals more of their own space in the mix. They're getting a little masked.

It's interesting what a huge difference it made creating a separate track for the horns and then adding them in.

That video is awesome.

[bambina_cricket]

Ah! It's the horns. The vocals are right out in front of everything else, then when the horns come in, they get a little covered up.

[dariusk]

If I were really putting some thought into sequencing the song I would save the horns for the chorus.