Mr. Kahn, you are doing a great work for the reggae community and the legends who influenced the world over in every modern genres. This community support and openness will become the next great movement in the Rastafaria and reggae community. Big ship breddah!!
I honestly don't even think I know enough good words for how good I feel about this, so nice sonically, thoughtfully described and respects the foundation players! I would seriously love to be involved with something like this.....
Man, you're genius! Great work!!! Keep on dubbing Mr DM Kahn!!! You should recreate some Jackie Mittoo or King Tubby's work, or even Scientist or Prince Far I! hehe greetings!
I am moving, I just packed up and am beginning a new studio build. I’m definitely going to show how I set things up in the new studio! God Bless you man
Very interesting mixing process and although at first it may seem over-processed compared to the much simpler way roots reggae was mixed back in the days, at the end the sonic results speaks for itself and that is all that matters. Great job brethren, big up yourself!
I appreciate that. It’s a lot harder nowadays to get that sound because back in those days the equipment they had very much dictated the sound whereas in the box it’s so clean. They ran thru transformers of the console and through tape multiple passes, then to the mastering desk (more transformers) and ultimately to vinyl. So it’s actually comparable to the amount of plugins I’m using here! Bless up
DM Kahn With regards to you sending $ to the great Jamaican musicians, the respect is all yours. Anyone who knows anything about the history of reggae, will know that the early artists and songwriters were often paid no royalties for their work. We can't change the past but we can show (those that are still with us) the respect that the are due.❤️
The diff between gates and expander is simple ....The gates open at a certain threshold and lower the volumes below that threshold while expanding raise the volume at a certain threshold. .. all with attack/ release /etc... you don't have to cut 100 percent all the time. most gates have the option of the amount of db's you wanna gate. Always good video from Dm Kahn.
once again, extremely interesting video. Thank you sincerely for sharing all this with us, I learned so much thanks to that !! really ! NUFF RASPECT from France
Just having fun, so nice to have quality stems to work with. Don’t stop now lol! It’s great to dub a song I’ve loved all these years, thanks for your works!!
Bless up and respect for the teachings Kahn. Each one teach one ! iv even made notes ! i saw in another video of yours that you were selling drum samples, are they still online somewhere. just purchased the stems - love that you are sending the money to Freddie and Flabba. Keep on dubbing -Alliance Sound System !
Well done. We can avoid copyright and compare to the original outside of UA-cam. Now set all those plug ins in stone and just play in more original rhythms.
Yeah, I rarely do covers… I mostly do originals. I also don’t set my settings in stone. It’s better practice to try to recreate this sound every time . However if I were doing an album I would probably set it and forget it for sake of continuity!
Recreating songs teaches the chords and patterns but also the production/mixing techniques. We need to let you loose in a studio with a tape machine and analogue hardware. I want to do the same thing as you but utilise analogue hardware for mixing. Maybe an upright piano is in your future. For some reason I am intellectually averse to using plug ins. As if it is a fake mathematical degradation and compromise. Causing a build up of faux warmth. It was good to hear the bass drum and kit end up sounding more solid. When you were EQ'ing everything in fine detail I couldn't help but think that Scientist may have left more of the sound in instead of filtering out everything making it super clean. I do remember reading that he claims to have never used compressors. I think he called them a volume turner downerer. But of course tape can compress instead. Next try to emulate rough kick and snare like fussin' and fighting by Tristan Palmer or Bing Bunny - Me and Jane. @@DMKahn
Obviously you wouldn't want to do it here but have you ever tried talking into a guiro as you scrape. some have a closed bottom, some don't. Can make for an interesting effect.
Hey man! I have a question about your drum recording levels. Do you set your input levels so that all mics match? Like, your snare top and bottom input levels match? Hope this question makes sense. Thank you!
Typically I have the snare top the loudest and then snare bottom a bit lower. Hope that helps! Kick is a little lower than snare top, hi hat is considerably quieter because of its high frequency content is louder in comparison
You often contrast reggae with rock, particularly in the context of rhythm. It would be interesting to see/hear you discuss and demonstrate what a standard rock rhythm would sound like in an otherwise reggae-composed song.
The main difference is that the kick and snare on a rock song typically would be twice as fast and opposite as the slower reggae feel. It’s a good idea for a video, thanks for the suggestion!
You could do both. I haven’t watched the vid in awhile. Coulda been two reasons, first most likely is the gain staging into the plug-in’s preamp section. The second is, well, maybe I could have because it would have been the exact same thing.
I was always taught that any master bus processing should be used fully wet yet you're using compression at 20 something %? Have I been doing it wrong all these years???
Yeah I’m not selling the stems to Big Ship anymore. That was for a limited time as the monies went to Flabba and Freddie. It would be too difficult to track the monies given the fact I sell other stems of original music so I decided to stop selling them after the sales trickled out. Bless
Mr. Kahn, you are doing a great work for the reggae community and the legends who influenced the world over in every modern genres. This community support and openness will become the next great movement in the Rastafaria and reggae community. Big ship breddah!!
I am with you, this man is my hero. ♥️💛💚
Thank you brother for the love, I sure hope you’re right about the support and openness being the next great movement!
Im a simple man. I see DM Khan, I upvote. EDIT - cheers for sending the $ to Freddie & Flabba!
I honestly don't even think I know enough good words for how good I feel about this, so nice sonically, thoughtfully described and respects the foundation players! I would seriously love to be involved with something like this.....
A true master at work... 👑 your passion shines.. big up bredren... I appreciate you Rasta
More Radics Remakes!!
Wow... this is great. Thanks Brother Khan! You are the master of both the art and science of reggae. I love and really enjoyed this. Blessed Love.
Bro I wish you would've put an ad for every chapter. You are doing so much good for the community bro! Can't believe this is free!!
Appreciate that man. I do it for the love of the music. I do also sell some sample packs as a way for people to support what I’m doing here. Bless
I have watched hours of mixing on UA-cam and this is by far the best I've seen and heard! Many thanks for you insight.
Really appreciate your comment man, thank you for spending time here 🙏
Woah that Bettermaker!! Very accurately named unit.
Had me dancing thru the whole video! Pram Pram Pram!
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Man, you're genius! Great work!!! Keep on dubbing Mr DM Kahn!!! You should recreate some Jackie Mittoo or King Tubby's work, or even Scientist or Prince Far I! hehe greetings!
Haven't been this excited for "the next episode" since game of thrones, thank you so much for everything you're doing!
Lol much appreciated man bless you
"Peace Of Mind" 😍
Aloha from Hawaii, Master Kahn! Be safe and Mahalo for all the wisdom you are sharing! Respect!
Respect brother
Big up Mr. Kahn! Have to watch it again to digest all the information...thank you again for sharing!
Thank you very much for the insights Kahn! One Love
Respect 🙌
Can you please make a video touring your studio and gear? I love your channel and would love to know how you set up your studio!
I am moving, I just packed up and am beginning a new studio build. I’m definitely going to show how I set things up in the new studio! God
Bless you man
Great initiative Man. Flabba surely needs it and this is a really great move. Congrats.
Big Up yourself DM Kahn! Thank you for your amazing work! you are an inspiration!
Great man. I watch from start to finish and I am very impressed, I don't have all those plugin but I am truly inspired and motivated
😎respect
Very interesting mixing process and although at first it may seem over-processed compared to the much simpler way roots reggae was mixed back in the days, at the end the sonic results speaks for itself and that is all that matters.
Great job brethren, big up yourself!
I appreciate that. It’s a lot harder nowadays to get that sound because back in those days the equipment they had very much dictated the sound whereas in the box it’s so clean. They ran thru transformers of the console and through tape multiple passes, then to the mastering desk (more transformers) and ultimately to vinyl. So it’s actually comparable to the amount of plugins I’m using here! Bless up
A masterclass from 'Dub Master Khan' Nice information on your workflow. Big up.🔥🔥🔥🇯🇲🇬🇧
Respect Allen :)
DM Kahn With regards to you sending $ to the great Jamaican musicians, the respect is all yours. Anyone who knows anything about the history of reggae, will know that the early artists and songwriters were often paid no royalties for their work. We can't change the past but we can show (those that are still with us) the respect that the are due.❤️
The diff between gates and expander is simple ....The gates open at a certain threshold and lower the volumes below that threshold while expanding raise the volume at a certain threshold. .. all with attack/ release /etc... you don't have to cut 100 percent all the time. most gates have the option of the amount of db's you wanna gate. Always good video from Dm Kahn.
Great explanation, way better than my fumbling words haha! Maybe I should prep more. Then again, that’s not my style haha, from the heart!
Great video. Learned a lot, contrary to my previous comment on your channel. Respect Mr DM Khan
Thanks Jak. I don’t remember what your comment was but I appreciate your kind words here!
once again, extremely interesting video. Thank you sincerely for sharing all this with us, I learned so much thanks to that !! really ! NUFF RASPECT from France
Respect! Thanks for watching and commenting man
wow, thats VERY close to the original. Good job!
Thank you and respect 🙏
Great video man, thanks for sharing the whole process. I just picked up the stems, gonna check them out now, bless up!
Your version is so good bro, thanks for making that!!
Just having fun, so nice to have quality stems to work with. Don’t stop now lol! It’s great to dub a song I’ve loved all these years, thanks for your works!!
I’ll put it simply. Thank you for making these vids. Bless! 👍
My pleasure bro
Incredible strategy man psyched to work with this
sound great awesome recreation of old reggae thing
Bless up and respect for the teachings Kahn. Each one teach one ! iv even made notes ! i saw in another video of yours that you were selling drum samples, are they still online somewhere. just purchased the stems - love that you are sending the money to Freddie and Flabba. Keep on dubbing -Alliance Sound System !
Da King !! Thx a lot for this video. I’ve learned a lot, Big Up :)
Respect brother
Sick. Such a classic song. Learned so much!
Wow im impressed. Great job.
Great info, lets keep in touch!
Cheers man, for sure!! Enjoy the TLM103!!
@@DMKahn I live in the land of Dancehall, so we may be able to work together.
Cool watching you work!
Thanks for the visit
Thank you!🙌🏽
Wonderful work !! 🔊🔥
Thanks my brother !!! 🎹
Great video, thanks!
Great works 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽❤💛💚
Respect due 🙏
Bunny’s rock n groove LP made me a radics fan.
Such an amazing album
Great mix! Just wanted to know why you did not use your Sound Skulptor TS500?
I wanted to keep it more in the box so people that don’t have a particular hardware gear wouldnt be excluded
We did the “chh-chh-chh” at the same time 😂
Another great FREE lesson! I hope to ditch FL Studio one day and be as great as you.
Greetings from Steenkoud (your friend on Soundcloud)
Long time Steenkoud! Maximum respect 🙌
Nice ! Thanks & Bless up 🔥
Respect big drummie 🥁
Well done. We can avoid copyright and compare to the original outside of UA-cam.
Now set all those plug ins in stone and just play in more original rhythms.
Yeah, I rarely do covers… I mostly do originals. I also don’t set my settings in stone. It’s better practice to try to recreate this sound every time . However if I were doing an album I would probably set it and forget it for sake of continuity!
Recreating songs teaches the chords and patterns but also the production/mixing techniques. We need to let you loose in a studio with a tape machine and analogue hardware. I want to do the same thing as you but utilise analogue hardware for mixing. Maybe an upright piano is in your future. For some reason I am intellectually averse to using plug ins. As if it is a fake mathematical degradation and compromise. Causing a build up of faux warmth. It was good to hear the bass drum and kit end up sounding more solid. When you were EQ'ing everything in fine detail I couldn't help but think that Scientist may have left more of the sound in instead of filtering out everything making it super clean. I do remember reading that he claims to have never used compressors. I think he called them a volume turner downerer. But of course tape can compress instead.
Next try to emulate rough kick and snare like fussin' and fighting by Tristan Palmer or Bing Bunny - Me and Jane. @@DMKahn
Obviously you wouldn't want to do it here but have you ever tried talking into a guiro as you scrape. some have a closed bottom, some don't. Can make for an interesting effect.
Haven’t tried that! Thanks for the idea
What if you add a Bubble Organ to the mix, it would really make it a truely unique version of big ship
I was about to say this shit sound real af lol
Thanks for this ♥️ 👌 Grüße aus Wien 🇦🇹 ✌️
Respect
Top! Lindell is life for you!! ;)
Its so intuitive and sounds amazing.
@@DMKahn 🤘👊🏽we have all our favorite plugs👊🏽🤘
Kickin it raw
Link broke. Love the content
Awesome 👏🙌🏿
Thanks brother
Men, listen Los Cafres, an argentinian reggae band, this sound its like this, classic reggae roots
Hey man! I have a question about your drum recording levels. Do you set your input levels so that all mics match? Like, your snare top and bottom input levels match? Hope this question makes sense. Thank you!
Typically I have the snare top the loudest and then snare bottom a bit lower. Hope that helps! Kick is a little lower than snare top, hi hat is considerably quieter because of its high frequency content is louder in comparison
You’re referring to your actual tracking level? Not mixing level... thanks man!
Actually both. But while tracking there’s nothing wrong with having them the same level. As long as it’s a clean signal you’re good
Awesome thanks so much
So amazing. Would you ever be down to listen to one of my songs and let me know how the mix sounds?
You often contrast reggae with rock, particularly in the context of rhythm. It would be interesting to see/hear you discuss and demonstrate what a standard rock rhythm would sound like in an otherwise reggae-composed song.
The main difference is that the kick and snare on a rock song typically would be twice as fast and opposite as the slower reggae feel. It’s a good idea for a video, thanks for the suggestion!
Hi how set vocal lead slap delay ? Thanks
Try 130ms as a starting point
Why didnt leave the OHs at unity and turn down the OH Aux vs Vice Versa?
You could do both. I haven’t watched the vid in awhile. Coulda been two reasons, first most likely is the gain staging into the plug-in’s preamp section. The second is, well, maybe I could have because it would have been the exact same thing.
I was always taught that any master bus processing should be used fully wet yet you're using compression at 20 something %? Have I been doing it wrong all these years???
Many ways to skin a cat. How’s it sound?
@@DMKahn I guess that's the only question that matters really.
hey ! I would like grab the stems but the link is no longuer available !
Yeah I’m not selling the stems to Big Ship anymore. That was for a limited time as the monies went to Flabba and Freddie. It would be too difficult to track the monies given the fact I sell other stems of original music so I decided to stop selling them after the sales trickled out. Bless
50:30 what piano are using for this track? Cheers
Cuba plug-in by native instruments
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Are you using your Midas F on Windows 10 DM Kahn ?
No on Mac OSX Mojave
Do you mix songs for artists?
Not currently no
Like :D
How can i reach to you? Email? Fb?
Thekahn@gmail.com
What type midi you have?
Sorry can you rephrase the question? I don’t understand. Do you mean what piano sounds? Or what midi keyboard am I using?
That thing you’re using to play your sounds.The hard ware in front of your computer.
It’s an analog mixer with FireWire I/O. I mostly use it for recording and dubbing. It’s also my interface. It’s the Midas F24, a dying breed haha
@@DMKahn I appreciated DM Kahn.Thank you so much and keep up an amazing work for the reggae world.🙏👍.
@@DMKahn oh sorry not the the big mixer,the small keyboard or piano looking thing.haha.I’m looking for a midi to buy right now 😀.