the "shimmer" in le knight club tracks...

[Roulade]

does anyone know what the root of that "punch & shimmer" on a lot of tracks by le knight club (along with the buffalo bunch and however many other crydamoure acts) comes from? a prime example being "gator"

is it the natural compression/distortion etc that happens on a sp-202 or sp-303? or is it moreso a particular filter unit / filter + compressor combo?

nb: i am not talking about lush cs-80 samples thrown in to pad out the disco samples, specifically just how they manage to spark up the samples on their own.

thanks in advance

[Yoozer]

Do you have any mp3 fragments or good quality Youtube links (e.g. no cellphone or camera mic c**p)?

[Roulade]

the buffalo bunch "music box"
[youtube][/youtube]

le knight club "cherie d'amoure"
[youtube][/youtube]

le knight club "rhumba"
[youtube][/youtube]

sedat "the turkish avenger"
[youtube][/youtube]

deelat "wetness anthem"
[youtube][/youtube]

le knight club "soul bells" although this one is a bit closer to the discovery-era daft sound
[youtube][/youtube]

le knight club "coral twist"
[youtube][/youtube]

[Roulade]

ok so the youtube embed tag doesn't seem to work...

the buffalo bunch "music box"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-AI7LkXHzs

le knight club "cherie d'amoure"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNetiEMSbNI

le knight club "rhumba"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0vmf2zE3z4

sedat "the turkish avenger"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw0avFzjTsc

deelat "wetness anthem"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bCeEZ8r9g0

le knight club "soul bells" although this one is a bit closer to the discovery-era daft sound
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdTOir1mhrk

le knight club "coral twist"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLqf_hnMp68

[Roulade]

ps. is the crydamoure medallion just a photoshop "emboss" effect or could it actually be a real thing?

[Roulade]

pps. some of the stickers were great too

[Yoozer]

ps. is the crydamoure medallion just a photoshop "emboss" effect or could it actually be a real thing?

Photoshop, you can see the smudges on the bottom.

What you call punch and shimmer is better known as sidechain compression. The concept is that one audio signal (for instance, a single kick drum) "punches" the volume down of another audio signal (for instance, a complete song).

- Youtube and Google both have videos for pretty much all the software out there, since it's a very overused, tired effect by now .

[pricklyrobot]

ps. is the crydamoure medallion just a photoshop "emboss" effect or could it actually be a real thing?

Embossing would have the design raised above the main surface, this looks as if it's meant to resemble engraving. And yes, definitely Photoshop, whoever did it could use a bit more practice too.

[Roulade]

What you call punch and shimmer is better known as sidechain compression. The concept is that one audio signal (for instance, a single kick drum) "punches" the volume down of another audio signal (for instance, a complete song).

- Youtube and Google both have videos for pretty much all the software out there, since it's a very overused, tired effect by now .

thanks for that. i am, however, pretty aware of sidechaining and how played out it is (in my opinion mostly due to the ableton generation, et al).

what i'm talking about is not the sidechaining/ducking. for example, the guitar at the start of (and throughout) "cherie d'amoure". it is pretty crisp yet has a little bit of grit to it (which is nicely complimented by the glowing cs-80 chords). by the "punch" in "punch & shimmer" i mean how it comes through the mix with mids and highs yet doesn't sound harsh or tinny.

the opening of "soul bells" is another example but like i said it's a bit more daft so i think is probably more down to active bitcrushing and a mutator or some other glammed out filter

[Yoozer]

for example, the guitar at the start of (and throughout) "cherie d'amoure". it is pretty crisp yet has a little bit of grit to it (which is nicely complimented by the glowing cs-80 chords). by the "punch" in "punch & shimmer" i mean how it comes through the mix with mids and highs yet doesn't sound harsh or tinny.

Ah, well, that's what you get with language - it can be ambiguous .

For guitars, try splitting the signal in two - one lowpassfiltered, one highpassfiltered, in such a way that having these play at the same time results in the original signal. Put the highpass filter cutoff frequency around 7-8khz, and apply a subtle distortion. This will create more higher frequency sounds without completely distorting the rest of the signal.

"Air" in vocals is often a subtle boost around 12khz.

[Roulade]

thanks for that

[Hellhound]

Nice to see someone else who likes Crydamoure tracks.

[Roulade]

nice to see the Blow Up EP -era logo/artwork instead of fluoro-shirted dudes at a festival going "MY PEOPLES MAAAAAATE!"

[Hair]

Honestly, I think most of the Crydamour stuff is a product of old 12-bit samplers aliasing and sampling direct from vinyl, similar to the way a lot of old hip hop records were made (maybe MPC60, SP-1200). If you don't have a hardware piece, there's a windows VST called JB Time Machine which emulates the characteristics of old samplers which might get you halfway there: http://www.jeroenbreebaart.com/audio_vst.htm (bottom of the page)

[Roulade]

Hair, excellent, thank you very much for that, some solid info