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A simple terminology tutorial


Anu Katariina

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Hello everyone! To most of the forum members terminology of production is self-clear. I have been interested in it, am interested in it, but since I don't have a patience to find e.g. YouTube tutorials, I'd really appreciate if ya ppl would explain me some ground terminology. It bothers me because I don't often understand "tech-talk": It is needed for example to make a review. So if you wise ppl are willing to help me: give some good examples of what is a "kick", "percussion" etc. etc. If you post e.g. an YouTube video to explain a particular feature, I'd like to know the spot at which minute this feature appears :)

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So, a kick is as we hear @ 0.40-0.53 and percussion is @ 0:55? Yeah, I am using AB as an example, sorry for those who ain't comfortable with that :)

 

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percussion is @ 0:55?

i wouldn't refer to the hihats as percussion. hats are hats, even if they're technically percussion. in electronic music they fulfill a different role than other percussion instruments (drums, shakers, ...).

but what people refer to as percussion can vary a lot. i've even heard someone talking about the kick as percussion...

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i wouldn't refer to the hihats as percussion. hats are hats, even if they're technically percussion. in electronic music they fulfill a different role than other percussion instruments (drums, shakers, ...).

but what people refer to as percussion can vary a lot. i've even heard someone talking about the kick as percussion...

Necessary clarification :)

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Let's not turn this thread to Filipe, please. I have had enough of that drama. Music is good and goes for an example.

 

I am interested in how you ppl describe the "vibrato" in the first 14 seconds of this track. Does this kind of a sound have a term?

 

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It's a vibrato ;) Or may be a trancegate, hard to tell what exactly was used because of the reverb tail.

 

Vibrato is a very fast steady pattern where the sound doesn't dissapear completely but smoothly fades between the loud pieces, trancegate is more abrupt and may have more compelx pattern.

A trance gate in purest form is here at 1:57 (sorry for extreme cheese)

 

 

Oops, I guess I'll now have to explain what is reverb tail :unsure:

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Vibrato is a very fast steady pattern where the sound doesn't dissapear completely but smoothly fades between the loud pieces

Nope, that's tremolo, or amplitude modulation as a technical term. Vibrato is pitch modulation.

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I am interested in how you ppl describe the "vibrato" in the first 14 seconds of this track. Does this kind of a sound have a term?

A perfectly ordinary "trance gate", an effect where the sound turns on and (probably not completely) off in a rhythmic manner. There are numerous ways to do this but I won't get into them now (and I probably don't even know of all of them).

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Nope, that's tremolo, or amplitude modulation as a techical term. Vibrato is pitch modulation.

Indeed, in English vibrato refers only to pitch modulation, I was confused by the Russian word which sounds the same but may mean both pitch modulation and amplitude modulation (tremolo).

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This trance gate is so nostalgic to me. Used to listen to lots of normal trance in late 90's/early 2000's and used to love this specific feature: now I know what it is called!

 

@ recursion loop: you don't need to explain what is a reverb tail: I know what is a reverb, falsely called echo, but echo bounces back and comes towards a person and reverb is like "acoustics" of the room continuing the sound.

 

I'd like to know what is a lead. Because that term is so frequent: leads are like this and leads are like that :)

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Lead is usually a synth which plays the main melody or the main riff.

Makes sense :)

 

Still a few questions left but this night is devoted for football-not-soccer :P

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Makes sense :)

 

Still a few questions left but this night is devoted for football-not-soccer :P

football-not-soccer; is that hand egg or Ozzie rules?

In both Europe and America now, I thought it was all Football (is soccer) :P

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In this tutorial I am using stuff that I am familiar with..soo..this bonus track The Unkonwn Helions Guard is more than familiar to me..auxiliariaris appear e.g 1:14:38, even though this same "sound element" is merged at least a couple minutes before

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-P3W4W8bds

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