Dubkasm Dub Tips 07 - Printing your Echo Tone

Printing your Echo Unit’s Tone

Another way of using delay units is to record the 100% wet signal at lowest feedback so that only one repeat occurs. With no dry signal present, you should hear a signal with all the characteristic degradation / frequency loss character but with no actual echo effect. You are using the echo unit in a similar way to an EQ/compressor but are capturing the tone of your echo and any artifacts such as wow/flutter, high/low pass filtering and saturation. Here we have used a vocal from our single ‘Jah Victory’ featuring Luciano, chaining three different delay pedals each adding its own form of sonic degradation, ranging from subtle lo-fi to overdriven crunch.

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Dubkasm’s top 10 Dub Tips is a series of short films aimed at producers wanting to experiment with some classic dub reggae production techniques. Dubkasm comprises DJ Stryda and Digistep who presents the series from the Dubkasm studio in Bristol, UK. They offer this series as a thank you to supporters of their music and the scene, marking 20 years since their first vinyl release in 1996. Whether you are completely new to dub and reggae, or are an experienced producer, we hope they provide inspiration for your own productions regardless of genre. These approaches can be applied to any style of music!

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Equipment used for this session:

Soundtracs CM4400 Mixing Console
Strymon El Capistan
DMB Lunar Echo
Line 6 DL4
Unity Audio ‘The Rock’ monitors
Metric Halo 2882 Audio Interface
Logic Pro 9

Video produced by Joe Bainbridge - Ordeo Clothing.

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