If you need presence in bass, distort.
If you want a clean bass sound with presence, layer with the bass in a higher octave, then boost around 5k+ if needed.

At college we did a class using Illmatic where we dissected the songs and reconstructed them using the original samples and such. It was such a good lesson. Illmatic is one of the best albums out there.
I might still have the folder on my hard drive somewhere.

When I can be assed to do remix comps I use http://www.indabamusic.com/

You mean the DAW you're using has absolutely no string/brass synth presets or sampler presets?

Find some free samples on the internet and use those.

May 7th? Sounds like plenty of time to master it. The record label will most definitely master it themselves. Give it the best master you can - compress, EQ, compress/multiband, limit. Mastering, as we all know, is an art of it's own so the label&judges aren't expecting something of incredible m...

Getting a 'wide mix' depends on a few things. Really, using a stereo widener wont do a whole lot. If you apply to much of it, you'll notice warping. You need to just pan your instruments intelligently. If you want a single instrument to sound wide then you should try frequency splitting and panning/...

I think summer is the beast, and easiest times to produce! Summer makes me inspired and upbeat. Doesn't mean I will be sitting indoors in front of a desk all day. Can take the set-up outside or go completely in the box.

Layered a reese with a sub and added some reverb to an insert track, not amazing but anyone got any tips on making my reeces sound grimier and heavier? Or VST's that have a similair effect? https://soundcloud.com/jackwoodyisherwood/more-processing-for-dubstep What you need is a lot of distortion on...

https://soundcloud.com/ieatfunk/reese-resampling/s-kyPCo This is my first real attempt at making a decent reese. The first is the dry and the second is the wet. It has about 7 stages of resampling. If people want to know how I did it, including the Massive patch settings, let me know :) I'm pretty ...

mromgwtf wrote:I don't hear any arpeggios here. Maybe that's because I know only a little of music theory.

There are certainly some arpeggios from 0:40 onwards

You are correct.

Daft Punk's new album is gonna be the best album since their Homework album

https://soundcloud.com/ieatfunk/reese-resampling/s-kyPCo This is my first real attempt at making a decent reese. The first is the dry and the second is the wet. It has about 7 stages of resampling. If people want to know how I did it, including the Massive patch settings, let me know :) I'm pretty ...

^^ I use freesound.org for every sample I want

http://www.freesound.org has loads of royalty free samples. I often use that for all of my samples like that.

I use the same reese as a starting point. I use differences in resampling or change the sound design a tad. Using 'the same' patch over and over again is what develops your personal sound. I often use the same samples again, to give listeners a familiar feel when listening to my tunes. Often the sam...

Hm, upload the sample so we can have a listen. The only thing I can think of is clip distortion. Did you check it wasn't clipping?

Haha yeah, as people said... Arpeggios up the arse using the first and fifth chord of their key. To someone that understands music theory it's not beautiful melody, it's two or three chords, most probably arpeggiated with an automatic arpeggiator set to random then built upon. That's how I'd make ar...

Looks like he has some cool videos - more than your average 'H0w 2 maeK d15 b455 in Mase3v'. Not that sound design tutorials are bad, but, I'm fed up of 'Skrillex growl in Massive' vids everywhere.

you want to EQ boost in the higher freqs, since when you pitch it down, you lose a bit of high end. Around 2.5-4khz mostly, and even possibly above to bring some more presence back. this ^ In the first SoundCloud track, the voice sounds really breathy to me (listened on shitty laptop speakers at lo...