Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy (Reason 4.0 Cover)

[konjunktion26]

oh come on people this song isn´t that hard to cover all afx songs are made very simple they just got a lot detail but its not hard to re-create them

[HAZARDOUS88]

@konjunktion26 And your point is If a song is simple it's somehow bad?

[konjunktion26]

@HAZARDOUS88

no the opposite is the case because the best songs are always the simple ones. of course cylob and afx and the rest sounds simple but they ad a lot detail to it by complex beats and stuff but the basic song idea is simple. just listen to "window licker". its a simple song but expanded with a lot detail and fx so its like a double figure. i think plaid called their album double figure because they are aware of what i talk about. i love your cover! ;o)

[HAZARDOUS88]

@konjunktion26 I see what you mean. Thanks.

[keelozest]

@konjunktion26 its not the tracks that are difficult to recreate, its his sound that is impossible to insanely difficult to recreate. anything made by richard d james has that special feeling in every detail that makes him so frikkin awesome

[Lukieo20]

wow!

[HAZARDOUS88]

@Lukieo20 Thank you. :)

[xoio]

NICE!

[HAZARDOUS88]

@xoio Thank you!

[TheAPC91]

Can someone please....please...(before i freak the fuck out!)...make a fuckin tutorial, on how to make those kind of drums? yaay thank you ._.

[HAZARDOUS88]

@TheAPC91 I could try, I'll keep you posted.

[serinity1993]

WOAH! nice!! :DD

[HAZARDOUS88]

@serinity1993 Thanks!

[vanjuxa]

simple but nice 

[HAZARDOUS88]

@vanjuxa Thank you.

[amart7]

WTF!! i've always wanted to do drums like this but never had the patience to sequence the hits... how did you do it?!?!

[HAZARDOUS88]

@amart7 It's not as hard as it looks. Once you get a basic rhythm down you just fill the gaps with snare rolls and buzzes.

[dudesons441]

Excuse me?

[HAZARDOUS88]

@dudesons441 Yes?

[dudesons441]

@HAZARDOUS88 This is damn good. I can't even fucking sequence in Reason.

[HAZARDOUS88]

@dudesons441 Thank you for your kind words.

[dudesons441]

@HAZARDOUS88 You're fucking welcome ^.^

[Opock]

My respect!!! damm man u are facking good! :)

[HAZARDOUS88]

@Opock Much appreciated!

[stickmister321]

The main bass is done with midi-guitar thru mixer to change the sound. the drums are real ones and afterwards used stretching or then drum-machine and stretch. Scream is put thru mixer as well to get the atmosphere feel.

It's easy to copy, expect the drums.

[IchDerComputerFreak]

nice!

[HAZARDOUS88]

@IchDerComputerFreak Thanks!!

[aidaniscariot]

great job on everything, i've never heard anyone attempt this song before, but hands down..amazing.

[HAZARDOUS88]

@aidaniscariot Many thanks!!

[irnybru]

Fucking killer drums, man, great job :)

[HAZARDOUS88]

@irnybru Thanks a lot :)

[ANDREYASHER]

Good job!

[HAZARDOUS88]

@ANDREYASHER Thanks a lot!!

[Decon89]

W00t, really cool remix! :) Could easily have been on the EP if you ask me.

[HAZARDOUS88]

@Decon89 Thanks, I really appreciate that. :)

[SirMichaelShay]

TEACH ME HOW TO DO DRUMS LIKE THIS IN REASON!!! PLEASE!?!?!

[HAZARDOUS88]

@SirMichaelShay It's a bit complicated but not too hard when applied properly.

[carbonC0RE]

I would call this a remix more than anything else. Regardless, excellent job.

[HAZARDOUS88]

@carbonC0RE Yeah I guess. Thanks for the comment anyway :)

[KINZOisHERE]

good job, specially the drums

[HAZARDOUS88]

@KINZOisHERE Thank you very much

[nsputnik]

Great job. I would use a bass guitar sound for the main bass/lead line, and then run it through the the Scream 4's distortion and then a low resolution setting in the section on the right.

[HAZARDOUS88]

@nsputnik

That could work too.

[Ebonyzer]

I'm quite impressed. I really like your drums as well with the time-stretching. They really sound like the original. Will you consider going into more detail about how you achieved those effects? You said you took a drum sample into Cool edit, repeated it, and used it as a sample in Reason? Did you stretch it out at all or further affect it once it got back into Reason, or did you just trigger it? I'd love some further explanation if you didn't mind.

Great job!

[Needlefeet17]

Fucking WIN!

[HAZARDOUS88]

I guess you like it then, haha.

[Needlefeet17]

@HAZARDOUS88 Yeah man. That was FANTASTIC

[duckotaco]

Uhm, well, what I need to know is how to make those drums! Since they were easy to you...can you point me to some resource in order to understand? Reason or anything else. I need to know how to randomize drums in a similar fashion...What did you use for these ones? Single drum loop mangling or are they coming from a synth? Cheers.

[HAZARDOUS88]

I used simple note placement and that's it. I then just put in between drum hits at certain points, A sample of the same drum but time-stretched to give it a buzzing sound. Of course I put some distortion on the drums as well.

[duckotaco]

Note placement for a loop with different starting points modulating at pitch or for single drum hits? I wouldn't be able to draw the drum pattern hit by hit. I would, but I would fall asleep first...but the first method qould be quite random so, I'm confused.

[HAZARDOUS88]

Single drums hits. I don't use loops. It might seem time-consuming, but it's worth it.

[kinglynx]

@HAZARDOUS88 could you do a tutorial on time-stretching drum notes.. and also do u mess with the velocity or pitch as u stretch?

[HAZARDOUS88]

@kinglynx

There's really not much to it. I just took a group of notes placed in 64th time and then just stretched it in Cool Edit Pro. No pitch change, or velocity.

[kinglynx]

@HAZARDOUS88 hmm, well theres a stretch thing in FL studio (fruity granulizer), but i dont get how to use it properly... thanks anyway! sounds great

[afdba]

@HAZARDOUS88 wait, did you say cool edit pro works for stretching? give me some info please! ive been attempting it for ever!

[HAZARDOUS88]

@afdba

It has it in the menu.

[afdba]

@HAZARDOUS88 what menu? :D

[slackdave]

@kinglynx

andadnb has a video on that aptly called aphex twin time stretch

[afdba]

@slackdave link please?

[thenightmareakatsuki]

nice love that kick but i am only usin earphones gonna have to lisen to it tommorow on speakers but sounds great keep the good shit up :) i've just finished makin a remix of to cure a weakling child the contour regard version think its one of the best songs by aphex twin

[HAZARDOUS88]

Thanks for the comment. I really like "to cure a weakling child". Great track.

[HAZARDOUS88]

I know what you mean. I should probably go back and try to make it dirtier and mastered better. Which is actually possible now that I have decent speakers. I appreciate your honesty.

[eyesintheroad]

hahaha, that's great.

[HAZARDOUS88]

Glad you like it.

[KaunisRoheline]

Amazing dude.

[HAZARDOUS88]

Much appreciated.

[sullybags1984]

Nice!!  added to stumbleupon....

[HAZARDOUS88]

Much appreciated.

[mellflores1]

Wow, this is amazing. Drums...easy? Not for me :\ I'm still trying to figure out how to get them to sound like that. Great job.

[HAZARDOUS88]

Thanks for the comment. Keep at it!

[1981chrismartin]

Fucking amazing man, good job!

[HAZARDOUS88]

Thanks a lot mate!

[Erbser]

You've reduced the song to the essential, without this scary stuff. Nice job man!!! 5*

[HAZARDOUS88]

Thank you very much. Nice analysis.

[delnaja17]

Wonderful!!!...can i have the .rns file?...lol...

[HAZARDOUS88]

If i gave it to you, i'd have to give you a whole bunch of wav files too....

[bubnjarovski]

5 stars

[HAZARDOUS88]

Much appreciated.

[ytjessaie]

Very good job, now take out a drum & do it xD

[HAZARDOUS88]

Thanks.

[KubriksMonolith]

Just listened to the stereo version of this production and it is superb. Incredible!

[HAZARDOUS88]

Thank you very much.

[KubriksMonolith]

Brilliant!

[HAZARDOUS88]

Thank you very much.

[juggaspark]

this is amazing!! can u do a tutorial for the drums?? PLEASSSSSSEEEE!!!! ??

[HAZARDOUS88]

Thanks for the comment. I'll try to put one together.

[juggaspark]

Ahh man i cant thank you enough AFX is GOD!!

[miuziqa]

Sweet!

what do you mean the drums were easy to do? what did you use ?

[bigbigsound]

and also put your sounds into groups (buss's) ie all the drums,bass,synths1,synths2,vox etc...and try the compression,plugins etc on the groups..another example..do that 8th note bass thing as mentioned b4,once that happening put it and the main syth thru the same group,distort,the 2 sounds will be fighting each other in the distortion..compress these together...do get what im on about "grouping"? im pretty baked so might not be totally clear :-)

[HAZARDOUS88]

Yeah I get ya, Thanks again!

[bigbigsound]

sorry but im not into it.

You might have a sound-a-like thing on the go here but you've not captured the mentalness of the original at all....it sound like a gm midi file..

Soz.

[HAZARDOUS88]

No problem!

I'm glad you criticized it, helps me more.

[bigbigsound]

hey you replied..hahahaha glad i didnt totally troll you hahaha...

ok...try lots more distortion/overdrive on the drums and compress them heavily...get a bass guitar playing the main riff as well chugging away on eight notes..again heavily distort this..try finding the sweet spot witha "fuzzface" type distortion....also get some "bit crushing" on the go..bring out the top end glitch on the drums...and compress the whole mix much much harder..it should thrash thru the speakers.. :-)

[HAZARDOUS88]

Oooh, some nice techniques there. Thanks for all the help! I appreciate it, mate.

[MustNotRead]

bigbig: you have a point. it doesn't have the "energy" of the original. but you dismiss what Hazard has done here too easily. I would say it was maybe EASIER for Aphex-Twin to create the original then it is for someone to try to recreate that original.

im guessing that a lot of the magic in Come to Daddy happened by "accident". to try to recreate those accidents from someone else's song is very difficult. if you get what i mean.

[theraveman01212]

@MustNotRead thats a really good point definetly true with all music

[KaslarProductions]

@MustNotRead I agree. that is only true in electronic music though.... Recreation in any other genre is as easy as taking a shit... ;)

[elARTEdelPOOP]

@KaslarProductions You forgot the remixes.

[imababyshark]

@MustNotRead are you a producer yourself? what you said is absolutely correct. i make accidents all the time when i produce and half the time those accidents made me go "hmm, i never heard/expected anything like that before, but that sounds good!!!"

[EvilBeatsmith]

wow man really well done on this...first i've seen from u but I'm subscribing right now this is FIRE!!!!

[HAZARDOUS88]

Thanks!!

[NocivaProject]

i really like..

good work..

full respect

[HAZARDOUS88]

Thank you very much

[nikito370]

This is good! Recreating this kind of music is a task I don't know even if their own authors do!

[HAZARDOUS88]

Thanks for the comment!

[Problembeing]

Bloody hell. You did that from scratch, or is that from a midi file? Incredible. I'd love to play around with that :P

[HAZARDOUS88]

Yep, did it from scratch.

[MagnitudePerson]

Dude, post tihds up as an remix so more ppls will watch it, even if its a cover its still ABOUT the original track, rename it whith audio only and some aphex or whateverp ic, best mix ever!! (Even thugh its not techincally a REmix is still a MIX cover) and it sounds different so eah, best cover mix i have heard yet.

[HAZARDOUS88]

Thanks for the comment! I'll take that into consideration.

[MagnitudePerson]

If i knew that you were gonna reply back to me that first i would have bothered my time on typing the typos and text out better, sry.

[HAZARDOUS88]

Doesn't matter, mate. I can still read it. :)

[MagnitudePerson]

lol you surpise me, but thanks.

And you really should put it up as an Remix(or just MIX) because ppls will like it if they see off an extended version edition. You might wanna edit it a it(e.g: all the lyrics, more complex beat constructure, more basslines, ahh i really dont know)

[HAZARDOUS88]

Hmm I have thought about that. But once a song is done I like to leave it alone and get on with making another, haha.

[kinglynx]

how did you know the notes?, and also, how do you put the audio clips into reason? like wav/mp3 format? 5/5 sounds brilliant

[HAZARDOUS88]

I learned the notes by ear. There's only 3 in the main part. Then 3 different ones in the break, it's not that hard really. Thanks for listening!

[kinglynx]

coool

[Stubby325]

how'd u do the timestrech snare effect?

[HAZARDOUS88]

Glad you noticed. I made the sample in Cool Edit Pro and the just put it into Reason.

[BeautyAndPinkPonies]

how da fuck did you did it???

[HAZARDOUS88]

I learned the keys by ear and then just made up the drum beats on the spot. Then just recorded my voice and put it in :)

[BeautyAndPinkPonies]

o yea so easy

[HAZARDOUS88]

it is ;)

[BeautyAndPinkPonies]

sureee...!!!

i cant do anything there!!

[MaRqu3e]

it's very very good man

great job! 5*

[HAZARDOUS88]

Thanks a lot

[Aphex1son]

that was fucking good man

[HAZARDOUS88]

Thanks a lot!!

[t3k4y]

Perfect! :) 5*

[HAZARDOUS88]

Thank you very much.

[ares106]

Dare I say?... that I like this almost as much as the original

[HAZARDOUS88]

Wow, that's quite a call....I'd have to disagree, but then again it's not up to me to say if my music is good or not. Thanks for the comment!

[sheatheman]

you really went all out on those drums, that is very impressive.

i have been using reason for 2 years and i have always been confounded with its approach to beat making. i prefer working with a sequencer and samples. i still use the redrum frequently, but because i have never really read anything on how to use reason, i have my own really messed up approach to putting the beats in.

i assign patterns to keys and switch them on the fly in an improvisational manner, as opposed to inserting them.

[HAZARDOUS88]

Thanks for the comment. The approach I like to take is this: When I want to make some simple beats I use the Redrum, but when I have a song like this that has a lot of different rhythms then I use the NN-XT. But your method is pretty good, too.

[DynVec]

Very VERY cool ! big up !!!

[HAZARDOUS88]

Thanks!!!

[BurBarBar]

Unfortunately "I will eat your soul" is missing too :(

[HAZARDOUS88]

Yeah, looking back, I maybe should have put it in.

[DynVec]

yeah it's an important part of the song.

[BurBarBar]

Oh, no! Verry bad intonation on the words "Come to daddy". And no scream at the climax point of the song. I dont hear, that "DADDY" is calling me! That what it's all about.

[HAZARDOUS88]

Well I thought it was pretty good at the time. But the scream I synthesized pretty well i think. Thanks for listening, though. :)

[tayloro508]

yo what are those drums? are those stock sounds because they're fucking sweet

[HAZARDOUS88]

The drums are some I got from a Drum and Bass pack, then I just added effects to them.

Thanks for listening.

[Tehmuumi]

Wicked! Good job man!

[HAZARDOUS88]

Thank you very much!

[ComatoseCA]

Great cover!

[HAZARDOUS88]

Thank you!

[pi0tr313]

what a big work !

[HAZARDOUS88]

Thank you!!

[WretchedArt]

You did a very good job. really. this is wicked.

[HAZARDOUS88]

Thanks a lot.

[kevinxmamama]

That's wicked!

[HAZARDOUS88]

Thanks!!!

[Outgunned]

just...AWESOME,great work,keep it up

[HAZARDOUS88]

Thanks so much.

[dmtworld]

Word

[HAZARDOUS88]

lol, thank you.

[JeffGraw]

You should do a cover of flim. And is there any where to download the reason files?

[HAZARDOUS88]

Well I could give you the Reason file. But there are a lot of sounds in the file that are not in Reason.

[Valjii]

Sounds good. Great work =) btw mb u can modulate ur vocal a little bit ?

[HAZARDOUS88]

Thanks. I wanted to keep the voice distorted so it fit the track more.

[alexisnum1]

sooooooo good

[HAZARDOUS88]

Thanks a lot!!  :)

[burnthemausoleum]

perfect

[HAZARDOUS88]

Thanks!

[Brom24]

just my oinion but doesn't reason 4 just suck in comparison to 3? i dunno im not very experienced, but I feel its a lot easier to record with those vertical red lines than ver4's bars...The metronome throws me off on rsn4 too...I have NEVER had trouble with rsn3's metronome...

[HAZARDOUS88]

Reason 4 is better in ever way, in fact it's pretty much exactly the same. It is also impossible for the metronome to throw you off, it's the exact same time signatures.....Not to mention 4.0 included feature of tempo automation. So Reason 3 might work better for you, but there really is barely any difference.

[Brom24]

i tried recording with rsn4, i really did but i felt a lot more comfortable following the metronome on rsn3 i dunno why probably cuz it was easier to follow the screen so i knew when the measure starts/ends. And yeah i think that the features on 4 are amazing.

[ItLiesInTheProles]

That's pretty awesome dude. Doesn't Mr.James himself use reason too.

It's a good cover dude, it's like the same song but totally reworked, still as scary, but I could actually play this and people would dance.

Good Job

[HAZARDOUS88]

Thanks very much for your comment, I'm not sure if Mr RDJ uses Reason. :/

[staticpulse909]

I love reason - you did an excellent job here!!!! I'v been getting these visions lately of a reason MIDI controller rack , i just think working with thor or ReDrum physically on their surfaces would be great - do you?

[HAZARDOUS88]

Thanks for the comment, I know what you mean, I think about using Reason's synths as hardware all the time!! :)

[DDRpwnerer]

Fantastic! I have horrible trouble with Reason, so pulling something off which is as complex as this is simply remarkable. Well done.

[HAZARDOUS88]

Thank you so much.