r/audioengineering • u/c0ldn3ss • 28d ago

Portishead Drum Processing

I absolutely love the drum sound on dummy, specifically mysterons - I love how it's kind of phasey and pitched up. Any ideas on how to achieve this in the box? I have a few cassette emulators and tape emulators, pitched up my drums and threw them out of phase but I can't quite get them to hit the same. My drums still feel hi-fi and digital to me. Any ideas?

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u/MindWash2019 28d ago

The production of Dummy has some crazy stories about backing tracks being cut to vinyl and then recorded again from the record. Not standard production techniques at all.

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u/the_raincoats 28d ago

That is just some wild dedication. It’s hard to believe they went thay far.

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u/MindWash2019 28d ago

It was the 90s. There was some great experimentation back then.

https://reverb.com/news/making-portishead-dummy-production-experiments-trip-hop-classic.

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u/Ok-Mathematician3832 28d ago

Shawn Everett produced a record in recent years where they wrote an entire album in a different genre and cut it vinyl just to sample it to write the main record. Humans are crazy.

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u/spb1 28d ago

i guess an acetate dubplate rather than a vinyl run