Yet Another Tattoo Example...

Oh, you love it. Admit it. This is, by a country mile, the most complex product we’ve made, at least internally, and I have to spend a lot of time beating on it, which is how you end up with all these audio examples in the first place. I’ve been doing essentially nothing else for the past couple weeks.

Anyhow, in this installment, I’m demonstrating how it sounds when used in the current practice of making old tracks more modern so they’ll fit in a current DJ set. (For the record, I would have done Mr. Roboto, except psy-trance makes me want to kill myself.)

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Naej Yllib by Chris Randall

In this example, I’ve EQd the bottom and the top out of the original track (except for the intro bit, where I just compressed all the life out of it), jacked up the tempo to a somewhat more modern 130, then ran it through the H8000’s “Dimension D” preset in order to widen the soundstage and give the added shit some room in the middle to do its thing.

I doubled the original bassline throughout (again, except for the intro and outro) with a sound that is Massive for the sub and a DSI Tetr4 for the mids. I also doubled some of the more obvious string parts in order to make them more present. The Tattoo pattern consists of the foot, hat, and a snare pattern with Snare9 and the clap, and occasionally Snare8 makes an appearance.

I recorded the summing buss with a slight clip, as is appropriate for this type of thing, and then squashed the life out of it with Sonalksis MaxLimit. I won’t win DJ Of The Year awards for this or anything, but for a quick example it should give you a fairly good idea of how Tattoo will work in this context. The internal sounds have a lot of attack to them, so they can really cut through in a situation like this, and you can leave the original sounds, for the most part, to fill out the spectra.

Anyhow, happy Thanksgiving to all my American peeps. Going to stuff dead fowl in to my pie-hole now.