TECHNIQUES TO FILL OUT SILENT PARTS OF A TRACK

[Depone]

if it needs silence, leave it silent.

[paradigm_x]

[nicetrick]

get a really crackly old drumbreak, do noise reduction on it, very heavy settings, but monitor/bounce whats removed rather than the NR'd break. Get lots of nice crackles etc but its also nicely rhythmic, without any obvious beats.

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[wayoftheworld]

[nicetrick]

get a really crackly old drumbreak, do noise reduction on it, very heavy settings, but monitor/bounce whats removed rather than the NR'd break. Get lots of nice crackles etc but its also nicely rhythmic, without any obvious beats.

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nice one

also sidechaining and modulating the crackle for rhythmic interplay with other instruments

[JFK]

[nicetrick]

get a really crackly old drumbreak, do noise reduction on it, very heavy settings, but monitor/bounce whats removed rather than the NR'd break. Get lots of nice crackles etc but its also nicely rhythmic, without any obvious beats.

[/nicetrick]

Holy Shit........

Just tried this. Fucking brilliant.

[Sharmaji]

really really really short transient sound

bitcrush

bandpass

reverb

bounce

delay

bounce

different reverb

bounce

different delay

bounce...

repeat until you have a huge wash of sound

[Plasticsun]

Bounce down your pads and incidentals and melody-lines. Have a go with extreme stretching/reversing, and the obvious reverb and delay. I like to keep my atmosphere as processed parts of my tune, like a reversed and stretched out bell hit, for example. It just adds a nice touch to the tune. But yeah, i usually have like, 10 audio tracks, which are just reversed/stretched and processed parts of the sounds and samples i use for my tune.

[BLAHBLAHJAH]

Doss about with automatic double tracking
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_double_tracking
Very crude start is to duplicate a layer, then position it less than a 32nd/64th note, in order to have two seperate tracks that may only be interpretated as one track due to faults with the way a mind processes duplicatives... Gives that 'fullness' that you can't put a finger on

[Plasticsun]

Doss about with automatic double tracking
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_double_tracking
Very crude start is to duplicate a layer, then position it less than a 32nd/64th note, in order to have two seperate tracks that may only be interpretated as one track due to faults with the way a mind processes duplicatives... Gives that 'fullness' that you can't put a finger on

Yeah, this is a great trick. If you're using logic you could mess around with the sample delay plugin, does kind of the same thing.