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| 551.1 | If It's Padded It Ain't Real... | ERLANG::FEHSKENS | | Fri Oct 24 1986 10:56 | 15 |
| Generally (I'm inferring from my own experience, I have never seen
this term defined or its origin explained) "pad" patches are soft
ethereal kinds of things. They have slow attacks, dense textures
with a lot of "internal motion", "soft edges", sort of like the
pads on cats' paws. They make nice background fillers (to "pad
out" the overall sound?) and provide thickness to the overall sound
without intruding or calling attention to themselves. They typically
sound like they're drenched in chorus and reverb. The generic formula
includes triangle waveforms (very sine-like), filter closed way
down, slow attack and release on the EGs, moderate amounts of detune
on paired oscillators, no sync, stacking of voices in the patches,
etc.. Think thick, slow, quiet, soft.
len.
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| 551.2 | throw a towel over it,pablo | JON::ROSS | BOZONICS | Fri Oct 24 1986 22:23 | 9 |
| To me Pad is usually background chord accomp.
Dont know where the term came from.
My favorite terms are "vamp" and "comp".
Any guesses?
ron
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| 551.3 | Back from vacation... | CANYON::MOELLER | SWS,where the rubber meets the road | Tue Nov 04 1986 16:26 | 12 |
| Back when I was an honest-to-God PAID Studio Musician, we first
used to lay down the 'bed', which was the original rhythm trax,
usually drums, bass, acoustic guitar, and piano. Then after the
guitar leads and, occasionally Clap Choir (this was before synthoclaps)
I would play the String Pad. So I would lay a Pad on the Bed...
As Len and Ron said, the Pad was usually a sustained smooth sound
that followed the chord changes. At first I played full chords,
but later became adept at using 4 separate lines on 4 separate tracks.
I think I learned this about age 27.
k moeller
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| 551.4 | I ask you that to ask you this... | AKOV68::EATON | PERSONAL_NAME="string" | Wed Nov 05 1986 08:41 | 6 |
| Thanks, all, for the info.
Now in the mix, would this Pad be 'buried' or would you really
be able to distinguish it from the rest?
Dan
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| 551.5 | Come on, guys, dintcha see the other question? | AKOV68::EATON | PERSONAL_NAME="string" | Thu Nov 13 1986 11:32 | 1 |
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| 551.6 | Any My Hands Never Left My Wrists... | DRUMS::FEHSKENS | | Thu Nov 13 1986 13:07 | 12 |
| You begging for examples? Or asking about prominence in the mix?
I can't give you any "real life" examples off the top of my head
(too hairy, huh?).
Re prominence in the mix; well, not totally up front, but not
"buried" either. Sort of in the background, so you don't notice
it unless you listen for it, but if it wasn't there you'd complain
about something missing.
len.
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| 551.7 | Thanks, Len | AKOV68::EATON | PERSONAL_NAME="string" | Thu Nov 13 1986 15:36 | 8 |
| That was what I was looking for.
I'm thinking of a time (the only time) I was recording in a
studio. We had laid down the basic track (the bed?) and the producer
told me to go out on the keyboard and just hold down the basic chords
as they progressed. It sounds to me like that was a 'pad'. In
the final mix it was not noticable, but added real depth to the
overall picture. Have I got that right?
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| 551.8 | Aw, Shucks, It Was Nothin' | DRUMS::FEHSKENS | | Thu Nov 13 1986 15:58 | 6 |
| Sounds good. I'm just making this up as I go along...
I learned that from Tom, last year sometime.
len.
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| 551.9 | Are Pads for Today? | STOHUB::TRIGG::EATON | | Tue Feb 26 1991 11:46 | 10 |
| Since Brian opened a topic on pad voicing, a thought occurred to me (it
doesn't happen often, so I'm recrding it here for posterity). Rather than vear
that topic off on a tangent, I thought I'd ask about usage here.
Are pads still used today in popular music? I mean, the trend in
recordings lately seems to be more of a live sound, "in your face", as it were.
Do pads still fit or do they dilute that vitality and excitement that recordings
seem to be grasping for?
Dan
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| 551.10 | My concept of "pads" | DREGS::BLICKSTEIN | I'll have 2 all-u-can-eat platters | Tue Feb 26 1991 13:39 | 23 |
| > Are pads still used today in popular music?
Moreso than ever.
> Do pads still fit or do they dilute that vitality and excitement that
> recordings seem to be grasping for?
I don't view them as having any effect on the "vitality and excitement"
of recordings. They mainly give you a fuller sound. In fact, I think
they are used almost like a psycho-acoustic effect. You probably
wouldn't know they were there unless you listened for them.
I used pads (although somewhat unconventional pads - i.e. not strings,
"ahh" sounds, etc.) in a few places in "The Low Calorie Blues" (on
COMMUSIC VII) where I felt the sound was kinda thin.
There's some under the organ solo (after the fast riff) and there's
just a sorta flat "bass pad" to fill in the bottom end on the ending
of the song.
They are actually fairly loud in the mix, but they blend in behind
things so you don't really "hear" them.
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