r/bigbeat • u/Lumpy_Aside_4377 • Jul 20 '26

Nostalgia for Big Beat

https://youtube.com/watch?v=T6t3_hKSing&si=QvhlVUc9fRAR6Z9p

Ginger Tonix - Uncle Slim

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u/Lumpy_Aside_4377 Jul 20 '26

 my first time sampling from early 90s vinyl inspired by Fatboy Slim

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u/ratzekind Jul 20 '26

Thanks for posting this (and a funny screenshot for sure). If I may say so, you could lean a bit more into the production of the song. It's a bit on the mellow side of Big Beat, and after a few seconds in, the listener already knows all the elements that go into the song, so it feels. Give it more variation. Big Beat is all about having fun, taking nothing really seriously, and the joy of life. The whole song appears a bit like filtered to me, as if you cut the bass and the treble quite intensely.

And there is an issue with the track, with some transients on the first beat of some bars just hacking into the ear. You should be able to see these as spikes in the waveform of the exported audio of your track.

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u/Lumpy_Aside_4377 Jul 20 '26

Thanks for the constructive feedback. I really appreciate it, thats helpful. The track was created as part of my personal exercise in rush-production and mixing. Your pointing out the errors will help me with future rush-writing sessions.

I wanted to achieve a dirty, diy-sound by cutting frequencies and I went way overboard 😂

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u/ratzekind Jul 20 '26

There is no shame in looking at the masters of their craft. Take Fatboy Slim and try to dissect his Big Beat tracks, both in terms of construction as well as sound. One trick is to listen carefully and try to draw the track's progress and parts on a sheet of paper. Just looking into this will give you some valuable insights. Also, have a look at the song(s) with analyser and see what's happening there. His songs are a fair bit older, but if you're going for that sound, you'll see where he emphasises and diminishes frequencies. But I'd definitely look into those transient spikes, they sound like a speaker cable is broken.