[Jungle] Do these 'bell' sounds come from the Amen Break? *update* Chopping The Think Break Help

[lug00ber]

Do you think having bigger slices with more than one hit will make EQ harder, though?

Depends on how anal you want to get with the processing. What you can do is bounce out the break to audio again, and then spread the different stuff on different tracks. Say kicks, snares and "the rest" on three different tracks, and then tweak different eq settings for those tracks before joining them again in a bus/group channel (whatever it's called in your DAW of choice) to apply processing on the break as a whole.

But before you start processing your break (or anything else) to death you should have a clear objective of what you want to do, and why.
Use your ears, and ask yourself: Does this sound good? Does it work in the mix? If it does, leave it alone and work on another element of the track.
If there's a problem, figure out exactly what it is, and then try to solve that problem. Don't just apply processing aimlessly in hope of hitting gold.
And remember that it's futile to listen to an element in solo to figure out if it works in the mix. The important thing is how an element sounds together with the other elements of the track, not how it sounds on its own.

Lastly, when you're trying to balance a mix, you do it in this order:
1. Volume
2. Panning
3. EQ
4 Dynamic processing
5. ..other stuff.


I'd say your think break sounds good now, so I would leave it as it is and continue writing a tune if I were you

 

[strove]

Absolutely sound advice! [pun not intended LOL]

Yeah, I think you are right. I've got enough fundamental skills down-pat to chop up some breaks.
Its time to start arranging and adding other fun things...like a bassline!

Then once I have some-what of a track happening I can then worry about doctoring problem frequencies and what not

I'll keep you posted with all of the fun shit I come up with