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Dub Techno Tips

The document provides a comprehensive list of tips for producing Dub Techno, emphasizing simplicity, effective use of chords, and the importance of effects like delay and reverb. It encourages experimentation with sound modulation and layering to create depth and movement in tracks. Additionally, it highlights the significance of sound processing and maintaining a unique character in the final mix.

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Dub Techno Tips

The document provides a comprehensive list of tips for producing Dub Techno, emphasizing simplicity, effective use of chords, and the importance of effects like delay and reverb. It encourages experimentation with sound modulation and layering to create depth and movement in tracks. Additionally, it highlights the significance of sound processing and maintaining a unique character in the final mix.

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Same as technodude69 here, but he already explained the feeling

and concept of Dub Techno pretty well, so I just stay with a list of
tips :) Could talk about this forever, because this genre can be so
so complex in it's sound creation and getting the right quality.

However, here are some basic tips and things that I usually use
when producing Dub Techno:

1. Try to keep it rather simple and work with the few things you
have (see point 5. to 10.)

2. find a not so basic, but strong and deep sounding chord (mostly
in A or D) although basic trichords are of course also working.

3. Create a groove/melody with putting the chords into the


sequencer OR just a few chords and setting the delay time right
till the desired result is there.

4. Lots of effects:

1. Most important: delay, reverb, distortion

2. Give it a special character with phaser, chorus or flanger

3. Experiment with chaining effects

4. As mentioned before, the delay time is pretty important, so


everything sits right in the track/groove

5. The cutoff/filter is my most used tool probably, cause I just love


to play with it around for hours :) So try to make some good
sounding live modulations to bring movement/tension, a groove
or even a melody to your track.

6. More movements and changes through filter/amp envelope


modulation. Can be also done by duplicating the loop multiple
times and changing the velocity of the notes.

7. Layer your sounds with the same sound, but different effect. So
e.g. you EQ just the high-mid to high frequencys from your
mainchord and put a lot of delay with panning which gives you
something moving around in the room.

8. Fill the emptiness in the track with some nice crisp dusty noise.
Even a pretty quiet noise will make your track sound much fuller
although it's not noticeable at all. When listening to many dub
techno tracks you'll realise that it's one of the main components.

9. LFO on the lowpassfilter and clock sync. Try to look for the right
LFO-tempo depending on the sound you're using it on (short
chords work e.g. really good with reverse sawtooth waveform on
a 1/16 frequency). Then play around with the LFO amount and see
which is forming your sound the best for you.

10. Play around with the effects, like e.g the feedback of the delay
(here you can e.g. create super nice noises or pads if you turn it
up - which you can record and reuse with an other effect chain
again)

11. Use a chorus and/or phaser with a high wet signal. Record like 1-2
minutes as audio, because you'll get random unique sounds. Then
afterwards you can cut out your favourite part(s) and use it solo
or layer it on the original sound without the chorus/phaser you
used before. Now the layered original sound can be modulated,
while the sample adds more width to it :)

12. sample pads and just make short dubchords out of them with a
short envelope and some effects added.

13. Using a hardware tape recorder or tape emulator (or other effects
like e.g. a bit of distortion) on the master channel. I think this is
one of the big factors of not sounding too modern, clean and
boring as technodude69 already mentioned. Most of the old
Deepchord and Basic Channel stuff was probably run through big
effect racks in the finalising stage and then recorded on reel to
reel tape. All of this will give you in the end this beloved
saturated, warm, dusty and characteristic sound.

14. Play some chords and just sample the tail of the delay and cut out
the resulting groove which you can then put in the background.

15. Dub Techno is not really about drums!

16. also important:

1. Absolutely essential is that you get the real feeling for it, so just
experiment around with effects and modulation that you think
might work and learn from it. Record most modulations live and
don't click it.

2. it's all about the sound processing (through effects and


everything) to come to a good sounding dub techno sound

3. there should be always movement in your track although it's just


a short loop

4. finalise everything with the right tools (e.g. compressor,


saturator, distortion, tape, amp)

17. In the frequency spectrum my dub sounds fill everything from the
higher lows to lower highs. Lowend is just a kick with a bit of bass
that adds to the groove. The Highend is filled with a few hihats
and noise. But this also depends, sometimes I like to make it
more technoid with more drums and dubchords just filling the mid
range.

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