Avoiding the white noise build cliche

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Chris Page
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Re: Avoiding the white noise build cliche

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This is something i've battled against as well. White noise, and rising tones are the things that plagued techno for a while. I think lots of people (especially the big players) are getting bored of it as you don't hear it too much now. Although I like using it as a live effect!

Something i've been experimenting with is delay tails. Lots of people use reverb tails, but try this.

-Take you climactic noise, and reverse it.
-Then run it through a cool sounding delay with a long release. If you use ableton, use something like grain delay as this has 'spray' on it. If not, automate a distortion unit or something to open up as the tail carries on.
-Then, turn what you've just made to audio, and reverse it.

Now your climactic noise is the right way round again, and it should have a repeating version of itself, that builds up to it. Each one slightly more constructed and less destroyed that its predecessor.

With a lot of playing about, you can yield some pretty cool results.

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Re: Avoiding the white noise build cliche

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good tip chris.

although white noise is cliched it can still be used tastefully live. i have a relatively recent (1/10/11) sandwell mix where they thrash the ass off of white noise throughout the set and it sounds really good.

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Black noise! Thats what we need :)
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ICN wrote:Black noise! Thats what we need :)
It's call Hip-Hop! ;-)
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Re: Avoiding the white noise build cliche

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I only use noise nowadays to create an "industrial mist". For build ups perhaps noise hits with filter mod. delay and reverb.

I think you can still use noise. but not with that terrible sweep in it.

Totally agree on the fact that a million tech-house producers claimed white noise.. filter notch on it and go.. some congas, bongos and here and there a snare does the trick.. i'm not really a hater on other styles, but i can not say anything else than that it is easy to reproduce the same thing over and over again.

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Patriek wrote:
ICN wrote:Black noise! Thats what we need :)
It's call Hip-Hop! ;-)
now now,no need for that hombre:-P


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