Lemon D & Dillinja: Drums & Breaks Production

Back again with another artist breakdown series. This time covering the two Valve Soundsystem legends Dillinja and Lemon D.

Part 2 on making fat basses in the EMU & DAW coming in the next day or two. ✌️

Sample Packs

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Lemon D - Get Dirty
Lemon D - Going Gets Tough
Dillinja - Nasty Ways
Lemon D - 125th Street
Dillinja - Hard Noise
Dillinja my weapon of choice
Lemon D _ I’ll find a way
Dillinja - All Aboard

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Intro: (00:00)
My Demo Track: (01:46)
Drum Referencing: (02:29)
Snare Layering: (03:27)
Drum Layers: (04:58)
Reverb Snare FX: (05:55)
Fills & Variations: (06:23)
Break Swapping: (07:52)
Developing the Drums: (08:23)
Drums Pre & Post Bus Processing: (09:30)
Drum Bus - Noise: (09:53)
Drum Bus - Compression: (10:44)
Drum Bus - Reverb & Saturation: (11:38)
EQ and Filtering: (12:17)
Limiting & Clipping: (13:26)
Drum Breaks Processing: (14:55)
Phasing, Comb Filtering FX: (15:42)
Full Drum Elements Demo: (16:55)

[DeCetUK]

There's a secret sample pack at the end of Lemon D 'TwoTechniques' (Dillinja Remix) from 1999. It has a lot of their drums and splashy percussion from the era.

[fastswimming]

man this is so informative with the filter explanations, thank you so much! Beat turned out sick, keep up the great vids!

[Artersa]

Great video!! Love this dutty style. Would love an early-mid 00’s Renegade Hardware type video! Vicious Circle type stuff.

[Dubdamain]

Looking forward to the bass section in this series

[Carlwatkins]

I fancy getting on a ship and going through a portal of experimental sound design. That sounds like fun.

[squarelanguage]

I used to listen to drum and bass mixes on cassette tapes a lot which really softened the drums, which I liked. When you filtered the top end, it reminded me of this.

[Blaketownselecta]

Brilliant stuff. I was all about Big Bad Bass when it came out and would follow the Valve Soundsystem around anywhere and everywhere. I'm going to be coming back to this video a lot I feel.

[forestsunset]

Love these guys, Dillinja is one of my heroes

[Carlwatkins]

Great video. Thanks for the detailed walk through. I like the phasing FX. There is a Jimi Hendrix track called Bold as Love from the album Axis:Bold as Love and it has an incredible phasing on the drums. I think it was created by running 2 versions of the same drums on 2 different tape tracks and the subtle time differences created a natural phasing that was constantly moving. I can't remember exactly where I heard about it but I think Eddie Kramer was talking about it in an interview. I remember trying to recreate the effect with tape emulation plugins and I got some interesting sounds. I think Mitch Mitchell has some amazing drum fills. I have often wondered if they have ever found there way into Jungle or drum n bass but I haven't recognised any so far.

[Ezi]

0:09 I was there at that rave. So so dope! 🔥 🔊 🔥🔊🔥🔊 thanks for another wicked vid. Looking forward to part 2

[QWLMusic]

Should be Groovin King at this point! Solid video and super slick tune!! Thanks for always sharing your knowledge.

[John_dBj_Brown]

Made my day G! I can’t wait for part 2!!! 🔥🔥🔥

[richgreenmusic]

I love the test seties and the test white series some seriously dope tunes on that label. Rapture is lush.

[farben_]

My favorite Dillinja technique is when he would filter cutoff the crash cymbal at the end of the amens and it would sound something like 8:18.

[flyoverfredusa]

Lemon d - pursuit thru the darkness. One of the best tracks

[Carlwatkins]

I quite often have a layered snare that goes on every other snare in the background but also I sometimes have a snare layer that follows the pitch of the chord changes. If the chord goes up by 7 semitones then my layered snare goes up 7 semitones. It's subtle and in the background but it adds to the changes.

[liamhansell]

Apparently Dillinja used to run his mixdowns to DAT so loud that the noise floor would be almost running red 🤣😂

[anyme]

This is great earned a sub I have the emu 6400 and 1604 cr that is the easiest way to achieve there sound relatively speaking but this is a really good solution for those on a budget or lack of space great work

[endlessnameless]

Trying so hard to learn Renoise just now and your channel really helps mate! Just wish I found it as easy as I used to find Screamtracker back in the day lol

[richgreenmusic]

So you went to the Bristol Valve gig in feb, it was sick as