emusonacid! legacy

hey fellas,

i heard that dilinja would record his bass synth notes to DAT and then keep on sampling & recording over and over again until he achieved the level of warmth he was looking for.

i don't know how accurate that rumor is but this prompted me to do some testing so i tried dropping some simple juno samples to tape. slightly redlined them so it kinda gave a nice ass feel to them. then re-sampled those bitches into the e-mu and HOT DAMN, that shit sounded so nice.

anyhow, i was really impressed with the results but i was kinda curious if you all had your own preferred methods of resampling your tones and what not... anything using tape (hell, even casette tape) certain pre-amps, etc...

the experimentation with sampling has made me really appreciate the richness of the A/D converters and the over-all sonic characteristics of these e4 babies. i might even try sampling a finished tune into the e-mu prior to running some of the waves mastering plug-ins i've been really fond of recently. it might not be the best idea but what the hell, you don't know until you try i guess.

HOLLA

I recently rediscovered my old s1000...That sampler can't do much but the recording engine as an exponential (my guess) amplitude response that made all my synth sound usable. When i recorded those sample back into the emu...the magic gets buffered out. The emu kind of gave an image that is a bit more brighter but the voodoo contour dissapeared. Maybe that what's happening with tape...You acheive an natural attack and decay...one that looks like that ) (


the recording engine of the emu is not capable of doing that.

maybe it can when the gain is at -18 and it receives a loud signal

these emus certainly have their distinct flair and character when it comes to affecting samples (or not affecting them in some cases)

i know what you mean about akai's tendencies...

an aspect that i really like about emu's is that they really do a good job of coating the sound and enriching the lower end of the spectrum. so much that at times i end up using my asr-10 as a dedicated drum module if i want that crisp ass in your face kind of feel that at times can be hard to achieve.

anyhow... i'm dying to get a really nice preamp to warm the fuck outta my sounds and continue the sample/resample experiments.
ahhh, it's so easy to waste away hours in front of my baby on the quest for wicked sounds.
what a fucking geek i've become!! ahaha

Gotta love the DILLI!

I hear now he's all software'd up... maybe with a G5 or something and said that now 'what you put in is what you get out'. I took it to mean that for the first time you (the artist) will have that original vibe stay intact even when mixed down. That was always my problem, that when I transferred it to the computer for editing/mixing, it'd lose something. A better soundcard helped but not much. the x factor, whatever. Grooverider was with him on this point too, loves the G5.

Anyway, it's all good but I love the way the original junglists would go to certain measures to get a sound, even if painstaking by today's standards. I'm MR Painstaking, LOL! Anyway I bet Dilli has those old sounds now locked down as samples on the new system, whatever it is.

Wonder how the ED Rush and the Op use theirs? They have two (by the looks of it on the "The Original Dr Shade" sleeve. RFX? You boys out there? He heh heh...prolly on the knocking out another classic. Mmm...better get me a Gasmask for the Bacterias..........