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Vitalism
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 Posted - 2008/02/13 : 05:20:49
everyone would agree that older hardcore has a different sound than the stuff today.
does anyone know what kind of programs were used to get that older sound, or what kind of technology was used?
i've just always wondered about that because computers kinda really sucked back in the early 90's
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clarke101
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Posted - 2008/02/13 : 07:57:41
Computers rocked in the early 90's, just like they rocked in the 80's.
A lot more hardware was used compared to these days were a lot of it is software based.
Atari ST's were popular for music production, other than ST's it would have been the usual mac's and pc's
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Vitalism
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Posted - 2008/02/13 : 16:30:57
i guess this really could be considered "video game music" then.
i will look that up. thanks.
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Vitalism
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Posted - 2008/02/13 : 16:33:11
oh, another thing i've noticed, when cueing up some older records, you can hear a really quiet beat in the background where there is normally silence.
anyone know what's that about?
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Hard2Get
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Posted - 2008/02/13 : 22:30:39
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Originally posted by alex_e:
oh, another thing i've noticed, when cueing up some older records, you can hear a really quiet beat in the background where there is normally silence.
anyone know what's that about?
If it's a section of vocal then it may be the track the vocalist used to keep in time to, which would have been picked up by the mic from the headphones.
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Hard2Get
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Posted - 2008/02/13 : 22:32:28
The 90's sound has nothing really to do with what computers were used, other than they weren't used as a sound source like they are now. Everyone worked with hardware and that is the major difference between then and today's Hardcore, and is why it used to sound so much better than it does now :P If you want me to list some commonly used peaces i can do that.
There was also a great deal of either analogue synthesis used, or samples of analogue synths. The main sound for example of Hardcore back then was that of the Alpha Juno 1 or 2, and that is an analogue synth (technically analogue/digital hybrid, but it still sounds nothing like virtual analogue).
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Brian K
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Posted - 2008/02/13 : 23:44:05
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Originally posted by clarke101:
Computers rocked in the early 90's, just like they rocked in the 80's.
A lot more hardware was used compared to these days were a lot of it is software based.
Atari ST's were popular for music production, other than ST's it would have been the usual mac's and pc's
amiga's too
computers didn't suck they just weren't user friendly yet
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Edited by - Brian K on 2008/02/13 23:45:05 |
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