Paul Maguire wrote:
quoted 6 lines I disagree. It does. It's impossible to get the 'jungle-break-feel' with a> I disagree. It does. It's impossible to get the 'jungle-break-feel' with a
> drum machine (or sampled single hits) and a sequencer with straight
> quantization. It needs to 'lag' just a bit at times or else it sounds like
> a dull, rigid techno groove. I does have a swing of sorts. Those
> tambourines that tingle over a lot of breaks aren't staight quantized. They
> 'lag'. In some breaks the snares 'stutter'. Know what I mean?
Actually, after listening to a mixtape the other day, I noticed on a couple
of tracks did have swing (which is not the same as syncopated, as someone
pointed out earlier) beats, at least the kick and snare parts. The
tambourine parts are another matter though - some of the 'lagging' might be
due to the sample used, i.e. one that comes from real tambourine playing
(or at least a good facsimile thereof) where you get that swishy sound from
the cymbals riding up and down on the rods that keep them in place. This
makes the 'downbeat' part of the rhythm sound different from the 'upbeat'
part - you end up with chin-ka-chin-ka-chink instead of
chink-chink-chink-chink-chink. I've tried swing 16th tambourine patterns
myself, and they just don't sound right. Sometimes, though, it sounds like
the breaks utilize delays, which can produce a 'lagging' effect if the echoes
don't line up with the beats just perfectly - and it's very difficult to get
a swing beat to sound uncluttered when treated with delays.
GD