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jahknow

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yellow springs, Ohio, United States
Joined : 6th May 2007 - 18 years ago
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jahknow
jahknow 26th Jan 2011 18:26 - 14 years ago

on lava flowz feat Natty Warrior by arkeyetexture
hella good. feels rite for underground mix...
arkeyetexture
arkeyetexture replied Unknown
Mid-west Massive underground sound!
Bless Up!
jahknow
jahknow 24th Oct 2010 03:36 - 15 years ago

on DarkDubMatter by Dubmusiclover
That"s beautiful stuff right there! Good going you guys both!
jahknow
jahknow 24th Oct 2010 03:31 - 15 years ago

on Too Long Six by Dubmusiclover
Yes I you got it hooked steppah! Gimme lickle jungle flow and wop, it'a hittin. Big Up bredda. I wanna here that mix u lay over computer malfunction dub. yes I.
jahknow
jahknow 7th Sep 2010 13:14 - 15 years ago

on Not a hit song by baiiz
NOT a hit song! LOL like that title quite a bit.

Nice song, there's a whole lot going on here. It may be just me but in my phones I detected a few spots where the levels get blown out here and there. Right at the bigining, those subs sounds seem to be clashing with the deeper pad synth sound in the background. Makes it hust a bit muddy in places where those freqs are clashing.

My tip here, maybe trim just a smidge off your sub bass db level and be sure it compressor limited to at least -6 db in your over all mix. You may need to readjust some pad levels after you do that, but I think in the end you'll have a mix that is a bit more clear.

Nice work here for sure.
jahknow
jahknow 22nd Jul 2010 13:00 - 15 years ago

on medical grade froots by arkeyetexture
Beautiful throughout Sir. This was a nice start to my morning practice. Still workig on yur pazer top.
arkeyetexture
arkeyetexture replied Unknown
thank you bredd! like i was telling someone just a moment ago, i have really never worked around lyrics before. glad you liked it. means alot to hear that from you. theres a 320 mp3 with your name on it if you like.
Blessings most High!
jahknow
jahknow 4th Jul 2010 17:14 - 15 years ago

on The storm outside (V2) by StephenPotter
A man after my own heart. I love that arpegiated key riff. That makes for a nice song in itself. Like the minimalism you kept in tact here. Ambient doesn't need a femal Enya vocal overdub or a cheesy string pad played over it all. This weird ambience that I love a lot.

Nice work mate.
StephenPotter
StephenPotter replied Unknown
Really, this is the first song I've made that I've kept simple, the rest of my songs have a lot more layers in. As for cheesy string pads, I normally love them, but I didn't think they would fit in with this one, so it looks like I did a good thing there.

Thanks for the review! I still like dance before the throne, its still a song I want to listen to a lot, but I don't want to fill your play thing with my face. I'd happily buy it.

Ste :)
jahknow
jahknow 4th Jul 2010 17:09 - 15 years ago

on Mirrorball ft Minette by Cybertooth
That was a cool 50 minutes in your studio sir.
Cybertooth
Cybertooth replied Unknown
thanks jah
jahknow
jahknow 14th Jun 2010 12:46 - 15 years ago

on The Joy in Little Things by n0mad23
[This Review and below are to working draft v0.2]

I agree. Phasers are phun. Top notch Madness.
n0mad23
n0mad23 replied Unknown
I'm finding it really hard to do a short and sweet version of this one, so the next is basically "extended get it out of your system mix." Glad you appreciate the sonic weirdness here. I find it both very trippy and happy at the same time. Great, great fun!
jahknow
jahknow 14th Jun 2010 12:35 - 15 years ago

on Slow It Up now with added BASS and extras by KSwissBandit
You've programmed a good bass line in the mid range, but how bout throwing 1 sustained lo sub bass note under all that. Try it. Find your root key and play just a sustained sine wave style deep bass note. Eq it just right so it doesn't clash with your bass drum and see what that does for this tune!

...bet it helps.

cheers
KSwissBandit
KSwissBandit replied Unknown
Thanks mate :)
jahknow
jahknow 16th May 2010 19:28 - 15 years ago

on DownTown DUB by Itegrator
WHA? Big tunes gain from the ITE! Bless up on this track. Beautiful all round. Beat fits real nice over that instrumental. Well done Tiz.
Itegrator
Itegrator replied 2nd Nov 2011 - 14 years ago
Hive Thanx, John...still-&-everLiving DUB-Master!
jahknow
jahknow 16th May 2010 02:14 - 15 years ago

on Perception by thnknde
That chording is simply gonna be a problem all across. It seems as if the same effect could be attained using a different bass sound w/o using chorded harmonics. It will almost always seem cloudy against a clean pad line.

Coney may be right in saying that your bass freq is clipping the bass out as well. Maybe clip the bass kick sound to something around 150-180 Hz. That large drum beat sounds unlike a pop and more towards a house and even dubstep line.

Good going and keep it on spot.
thnknde
thnknde replied Unknown
Thanks for the feedback. I wanna keep it fat as hell but clean when the subs are pumping, so the chords are gone, I'm gonna play with the harmonics in sytrus, and take the eq/comression advice. Lol, and I know nothing about genre's so it's kinda hard for me to define. Thanks for the correction though!
jahknow
jahknow 2nd May 2010 13:45 - 15 years ago

on theorem dubwize by arkeyetexture
Beautiful what you did here Ark. You've taken us to another place with this tune, I like it here/hear. Taking things up a notch seems to be your best skill set these days. Very well done!
arkeyetexture
arkeyetexture replied Unknown
thank you Bredd! a very healing dub session this one here/hear. very happy you caught this one! most definitely one of my better pieces to date. your kind words really mean alot! Big Up midwest Massive!
jahknow
jahknow 22nd Apr 2010 13:48 - 15 years ago

on NWA (one11one Dub Remix) by helven
Well Jah will help you if you are willing to go forth into the darkest regions of your mixing desk. Helven, you are onto a nice theme w/ this tune, the flute, piano elements are supreme. The mix needs some serious work though. ALL bass freqs are torn to hell. Even at half volume in my good headphone it's so distorted that you loose nearly all elements of mid range and hi melody. You structure for patterns is a keeper, but if you wanna make this tune go big on ANY speaker system, let's work the mix some.

Here's gonna be my general tip. Draw all your levels way at least -5db! At least! especially the sub bass and kick drum. Make absolutely sure that all the channels are eq'd to isolate the specific freq. range you desire (cut out the mud) and you HAVE to have a compressor on the sub channel. It can have a long slow release, but be sure to side chain it thru the drum kick so that they don't collide w/ each other in the mix.

After all that, if you have about -6db headroom as it goes into the master channel, add an analog sturation type boost on the final master line. This hould get you close to clear sounding hits, while maintaining a bumpin' sound that can be cranked up real hot on the system amp.
helven
helven replied Unknown
Thanks for the tips!
you are now my best friend ;P
jahknow
jahknow 8th Apr 2010 13:35 - 15 years ago

on The Predatory Ruminations of the Leaping Razor by n0mad23
Unreal. will be back to post a real response after another 10 listens.
n0mad23
n0mad23 replied Unknown
One of those tracks, to be sure. If it was a painting, it'd be classified as "Maximillism." I do think it's got an interesting vibe, and intensity reminiscent of Industrial music. [edit] As per your suggestion, I've moved this to Trance now. Thanks jah.
jahknow
jahknow 1st Apr 2010 03:06 - 15 years ago

on Butterfly Opens - Titanium Handles Lock Fast by n0mad23
Holy cow man! Blow my mind would you?! This was totally unexpected and I love it love it! You've captured something in this mix that is absolutely crucial. An underbelly riddim that just pulses with heartbeat. Very well spaced reverbs, delays, phasing etc. You've just impressed Jah MAJORLY with this dub.

If you get a chance rip a 320 mp3 for me and send it priority Jah Know reggae Dj. ;)

blessing...
n0mad23
n0mad23 replied Unknown
Well, the launching point and inspiration is from the loops you gifted me, so I'm hoping my "vision" is a nice surprise. I'm thrilled you hear that heartbeat riddim - it's one of the symbolic components as it's Life. Creation and destruction=right hand and left hand of life itself. Still drafty draft #1, but even I hear potential dripping red.

I love Dub. I mean really, really love Dub. I never imagined I'd make it dance for me - lol.

Thank you again my friend!
jahknow
jahknow 25th Mar 2010 12:18 - 15 years ago

on BioFlip by morphx99mq
Nice layment of the sounds here. Feels like a bigger tune. Curiously noisey in a good old fashioned nasty way. Liking the darkness as it fits the overall reduced feel here. good work sir.
jahknow
jahknow 19th Mar 2010 02:25 - 15 years ago

on Falcon by Birdy
jessica h kristos

revised. RThat song kicked me in the tenders so hard all I could spit out was a name that sounded something like out lord's name in vain. Brilliant production once again Birdy. fabulously filthy and in your face dubstep once again.
Birdy
Birdy replied Unknown
Wah?!?
revised. Thanks for clearing that one up man :D
jahknow
jahknow 16th Mar 2010 12:38 - 15 years ago

on The I-tegrator meets JAH Know on a MOUNTAIN-DUB by Itegrator
This a blessed tune indeed my friend. Peace to all! These tunes are going to turn some heads for sure. Beautiful horn parts. So big the mountain, so big the dub.

blessings!
Itegrator
Itegrator replied Unknown
I give Thanx over & over, fe di Blessed CoLabs I&I Create!
jahknow
jahknow 15th Mar 2010 12:40 - 15 years ago

on Duck Toast by Chud37
Up down up down up down. love the stenchman influence. Bass is all Chud though! Massive mekkon!

Filth is your arena. You been pimpimg labels that sign the filthy stuff yet?

Krypled Brain recordings. All filth - has signed, Davr, Richie August, Borgore et al. I have a buddy who's a label dj. I'd love to pass some of your stuff on to him. He spins out of Miami Florida. Does weekly ustream shows, and plays out tons.

This needs to be heard!!!!
Chud37
Chud37 replied Unknown
Mate your quite welcome to pass my music on to anyone you think might be interested, after all its online all the time anyone can listen. Its not that I havent tried to contact labels or anything but just not really had a response. Obviously i would love something to happen, but it hasnt yet.

:S

lol

Thanks for the review though mate.
jahknow
jahknow 15th Mar 2010 12:29 - 15 years ago

on dubstepper trekker by rrinsa
REal nice sound usage. Curious to know what you did to the samples and what remained as is. I would absolutely love to know you resampled and programmed those basslines. You have a serious sound happening init. No doubt you've listened to nuff dub to know what you wanted here.

I can vibe well with this sound.

Keep dubbing strong, we need the presence!
rrinsa
rrinsa replied Unknown
hey thanks man for big upps thats the first track that i posted and i didnt know what sort of review i was going to get im all new to this i mainly used abelton with the main layout with the track used wav samples for the drums and found a random sample pack in my libary and jst choppd it all up ive nearly finishd another dubstep track il post it when im finishd.........
jahknow
jahknow 15th Mar 2010 11:40 - 15 years ago

on Galaxy the Beast [Badman] by SovereignKonceptz
Very nice Konceptz. I like where you went with the bassline.
Here's what I coul dhear happening. Use that lickle dub skank sample a bit mor ein a break down, cut everything out into the dub style outro, just for about 8 bars, then drop the dubstep bassline and beat back in. Makes for a serious skank.

Also think that maybe modulating the bass sound after the 2nd drop might add some interest, maybe just opening the lpp cutoff a slight bit in the 2nd part of the tune. I'm really glad to hear this quality after yesterday's little blow up thread. nice work,
SovereignKonceptz
SovereignKonceptz replied Unknown
thanks man,
i get kinda lost wiv my
structure, on all my tracks lol.

i appreciate this review m8

cheers
jahknow
jahknow 12th Mar 2010 12:52 - 15 years ago

on Lovers Who Uncover (DUB remix) by celestial1157
My rig is down right now, but I'm gonna do my magik on this track as soon as I'm up again.

Couple of artists you may need to investigate.

diplo - dubtop raning cd w/ santogold!
modeselektor - boogey bytes
eskmo - almost anything

This sound has something init got you that you've overlooked in the rest of your dubstep....? It's something to do with the raaw drum kit in it's natural environment that makes this track so badass. I would seriously look into that one aspect more and see how you could spread the idea across your tunes collectively. A bit more analog dirt, reverb, saturation in the master mix for that old school recording with volume and minimal headroom.

Love this...
celestial1157
celestial1157 replied Unknown
that sucks about your rig homie :/

and as far as the drums in the natural environment, it was honestly me just not knowing as much as i do now. lol. but yeah that snare is pretty dirty!! i been recently thinkin about that.
goin for different drum kit styles over different tracks. give some the dirt, give some the shine!

well let me know when you are up and going and ill send you the loops!

-celestial
jahknow
jahknow 11th Mar 2010 12:07 - 15 years ago

on I Want to be your star by CSoul
I kinda love this track. Sp much that it geserves some further investigation. I see obvious influences that maybe could be tapped even more.

Massive Attack produced by Mad Professor - it's the mad professor part that I'd look into. This dub pushes towards electro trance in the Massive Attack, Bjork, Portishead way. All of which are great artists to research while refining your sound.

Arrangement is spot, I might want to re arrange some instrumentation for a truer dub sound as the elctronica aspect starts to overpower the atmosphere. Especially the 180 bpm hard style drum beat at the end... now it's not dub it's rave, diva rock. The feel changed so much from the beginning to end I am now confused as to why you chose dub.
CSoul
CSoul replied Unknown
Thanks jahknow for your very detailed review as a guide.I know , what you said about genre,you are right.Chosing a genre for some tracks can difficult preffering sometimes.I usually working with my feelngs and they can changing at the making process.Your opinion about re arrange it is charming for me.Pls write me your email adress.I will send all off parts in it.
thanks again , peace
jahknow
jahknow 23rd Feb 2010 11:51 - 15 years ago

on Oblivion by Mhyst remix 2a by victormusic01x by victormusic01x
1st review Victor and I gotta say for your 1st trance track you have a nice thing going. I recently remixed a trance song (outta my genre for sure) and trued to put my spin on a trance track structure. It was fun. I like the way you kept the drums in front, expecially the kick. If you're at all curious check out my remix of Azoic's - Corruption tune. Started with raw midi date to create a dubstep style version of a trance track. I can hear similar influences happening here. You could play that cut time hi hat riddim way up in this and start playing with the groove across the snare and bass drum, me thinks.

Pretty dope sir.
jahknow
jahknow 16th Feb 2010 18:47 - 15 years ago

on Dubstep 1 by Apieceoftofu
There are places where your clipping out. Take a look a final limiter on the master chain. Seems kinda squelchy here and there.

Really super good track. Kept me listening all teh way through.
Apieceoftofu
Apieceoftofu replied Unknown
legit. thanx for the tip! i will check out the limiter although ill probably have to check out a couple tutorials on using the limiter cause ive never really looked at it lol. i know its important and i really have no excuse besides being lazy. appreciate the feedback!
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