TR-505 thorough BOSS METAL ZONE samples

I'm glad finally someone replied to my call for material for the blog
Today Dj Quartzlocker sent me these samples he made running a Roland TR-505 thorough a BOSS METAL ZONE pedal

The MT-2 Metal Zone™ is one of BOSS' most popular pedals. This stompbox provides some of the most over-the-top, insane distortion tones in the world—with huge mids and lows and an ultra-saturated sound. 

The 505 works well with a computer and sequencer or as a stand alone drum machine. It is extremely basic and unexciting but does make a good starter or play-along drum machine. Vince Clarke and Aphex Twin has used the 505.

I'm happy of this combo because I used to own both devices but not simultanously so I never had the chance to make any samplekit with them. This also confirms what I said about pedals in the past.

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Reverb in Industrial Music

Reverberation is a key effect in Industrial Music, it has the double purpose of both clean or dirty up the sounds.

Research in Industrial Music is often performed through deep distortion and heavy processing of sounds which sometimes lead to inconsistency, lack of harmonics and general dullness: characteristics that make the sound itself easily masked in the mix by other, more powerful, instruments. Here a good reverb can help the sound be perceived again.

The other employment is quite the reverse process, by reverberating some sound and adding distortion afterwards it's possible to dirty up material otherwise too clean for the Industrial freaks.

Personally I am using both analog and VST reverb units because for an effect of such importance I need a choice as wide as possible.

As outboard I got an oldschool ALT Multiverb LTX:

which has the harsh sound I am looking for. It works with just presets but once found the good ones it's ready to rock. Indeed it's connected right after a Spring Reverb, developing a nice metallic sound.


On the ITB side I've tried thousand different VST but at the moment in my opinion two are the best: the Omniverb 2.0.2

and the reverberation section from the Space Echo VST


They both work great as a pre-distortion processing technique but the Tape Echo works a bit better than Omniverb for post-distortion.

Utterly distorted Japanese vocal samples

Obviously my PSX emulator needs some fixes on the sound driver configuration. Obviously I’m not going to fix it, because it creates some stunning distortions!



I realized this when I tried to run an old Japanese videogame, the music was ok but the voices were all gritty. The misconfigured audio driver had a “save to disk” option so it was easy to obtain a .WAV file with all the sounds recorded. A DC-Offset removal was definitely needed to be able to normalize the samples.

So I compiled this collection of utterly distorted Japanese vocals that will sound perfect in any Industrial composition.

DEMO

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AZ-ROTATOR FX samples pack FREE

A nice collection of sampled sounds FX from AZ-Rotator, quite useful for Industrial music making.



I found very effective the "VOCALS" folder with lot of vocoded and deeply resonating voices.

I've always dreamed with to put some sounds over some film or animation. Past year I was recording different sounds and processing them. I imagined some images on my mind and tried to put sounds on it.

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Delfy Creations hand-made electronic musical contraptions

These guys from the UK develop some really nice hand-made synthesizers and effects.

We have a range of 'Delfy Originals' which we sell all the time, and we also sell one-off items, ranging from original circuits to circuit bent toys and instruments!

The boxes look great with those industrial-like cases and they're quite cheap, altought the SSVC-1 v2, my favorite, costs a little more than the others.

The SSVC-1 v2 consists of two parts, one being a circuit bent voice changer, and the other a squarewave oscillator circuit, using the same circuitry as the Delfy SS-1 with added features like a photoresistor you can use like a theremin!

The SS-1 is also worth checking, being the cheaper and most straightforward in use.

The SS-1 is the most popular of all our creations. It's very hands-on and easy to use, while also capable of a huge variety of squeals and squelches.

I'm sure these little tools are great for Industrial sounds! The guys should really send me one over for a review :)

http://www.delfycreations.com/

Alesis SR-16 through BOSS OVERDRIVE samples

As promised in this post this is the first Industrial samplekit made with the Alesis SR-16 thru a BOSS Turbo Overdrive OD-2r pedal (a classic!)



The noise "problem" of my unit sounds great when distorted and this can be heard clearly on every single hit. The best sounds came out of Toms and Snares.

I sampled the whole instruments list using this great editor:


Enjoy!

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Rhythmus rhythm machine VST

This is a nice rhythm machine VST but beyond its normal use I have found the sounds blend lovely after a few layers of distortion.

Rhythmus is inspired by an old rhythm machine. There are ten buttons available, each button can play two different rhythm sections so essentially there are about 20 different rhythmic loops offered, such as samba, mambo, tango, waltz, rumba etc.

Even if Mamba, Rumba or Tango have not much to do with industrial music the mixture of the sounds in the kits have a coherence which is the reason of the nice blending.


At the end this plug-in is good for adding a bit of groove to some heavy kickdrums.

Surprisingly, it's been developed with Synthedit!

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