making my music "heavier"

[ehbes]

tape distortion on sub bass

if been thinking about trying this with scream 4 is it really that effective?

[hutyluty]

definitely- get a 909 kick drum and play about with the settngs on scream, i have damage control at about half, and you'll hear how much fatter it sounds

[ObscenityDubstep]

HAM VST will make your bass as fat and heavy as you ever wished.

[JTMMusicuk]

HAM VST will make your bass as fat and heavy as you ever wished.

[ehbes]

definitely- get a 909 kick drum and play about with the settngs on scream, i have damage control at about half, and you'll hear how much fatter it sounds

[Crosano]

HAM VST will make your bass as fat and heavy as you ever wished.

The first time i heard of HAM i spent about 2 hours looking. this is no nice joke >:(

[Samuel_L_Damnson]

Gabber kicks on beat.

[Brisance]

Put 4x4 big ride cymbals on top. That ought to do it.

[Killamike49]

Make sure you're using Parametric EQ 2 in Fruity loops. EQUO is more for EQ effects, like formants and shit, than actual mixing eqing.
Oh, and read the manual if you haven't already. It's full of precise information about your exact set of tools. It goes into the details of what EVERY knob, button, or switch.

[Crosano]

Make sure you're using Parametric EQ 2 in Fruity loops. EQUO is more for EQ effects, like formants and shit, than actual mixing eqing.
Oh, and read the manual if you haven't already. It's full of precise information about your exact set of tools. It goes into the details of what EVERY knob, button, or switch.

I found out that bit about EQing the hard way. Trial and Error are my two new best friends lol

[Jas0n]

Maybe think about spending some money on some good plug-ins like camelphat, psp's vintage warmer 2, sausage fattener & some dynamic plugs aswell, there a lot more powerful than standard DAW plug-ins

Once your happy with your EQ's/levels look into things like parallel compression, resampling & frequency splitting

Hope this helps

WHAT?! This is absurd.

For one thing, the plug-ins in FL Studio are generally extremely capable.

For another, until the capacity of one's plug-ins are understood and mastered, it's senseless to add more ingredients.

For yet another, if this guy is new to the arts and he's already dropped a couple bills on FL Studio, there's no reason at all to ask him to buy more stuff; if an additional plug-in is needed, cost-free options abound and should be considered first - IF an additional plug-in is needed.

Next you're going to tell him to get Massive so he can make better wobbles? Good grief. What shitty advice you give.

[ehbes]

if you really want it fat and heavy feed it McDonalds for a week....

[Crosano]

Maybe think about spending some money on some good plug-ins like camelphat, psp's vintage warmer 2, sausage fattener & some dynamic plugs aswell, there a lot more powerful than standard DAW plug-ins

Once your happy with your EQ's/levels look into things like parallel compression, resampling & frequency splitting

Hope this helps

WHAT?! This is absurd.

For one thing, the plug-ins in FL Studio are generally extremely capable.

For another, until the capacity of one's plug-ins are understood and mastered, it's senseless to add more ingredients.

For yet another, if this guy is new to the arts and he's already dropped a couple bills on FL Studio, there's no reason at all to ask him to buy more stuff; if an additional plug-in is needed, cost-free options abound and should be considered first - IF an additional plug-in is needed.

Next you're going to tell him to get Massive so he can make better wobbles? Good grief. What shitty advice you give.

I already bought massive as well

[Crosano]

if you really want it fat and heavy feed it McDonalds for a week....

I tried this... but it seems to prefer taco bell...

[ehbes]

if you really want it fat and heavy feed it McDonalds for a week....

I tried this... but it seems to prefer taco bell...

ahh so your going for a latin groove to it ok i feel you..

[Artie_Fufkin]

^I got dibbs on naming the moombahtron gabber variant. It will be called cuntplextro.

I feel obligated to also post something constructive now, so heres something I just thought of: slowing down the tempo can make a tune feel heavier. Or just creating more space/rest. Or you could go to a half time feel. But if you're already doing a half time feel with snare on 3.... Put the snare on the 5 out of every 8 counts! I've heard this in metal songs actually...

[Killamike49]

^I got dibbs on naming the moombahtron gabber variant. It will be called cuntplextro.

I feel obligated to also post something constructive now, so heres something I just thought of: slowing down the tempo can make a tune feel heavier. Or just creating more space/rest. Or you could go to a half time feel. But if you're already doing a half time feel with snare on 3.... Put the snare on the 5 out of every 8 counts! I've heard this in metal songs actually...

Yeah, but in metal, at least the kind i play and write (tech death), it's usaully at a BPM of like, 220+.

[Artie_Fufkin]

True, but if you take the half time feel of that, 110bpm, and then half time of that, you get 55bpm. Of course the difference would be that usually a drummer playing at 220bpm might just play the double kicks still at 32nd notes haha. The example in my head is Nile. That drummer will play blast beats and then switch to snare on 5 sometimes and that contrast is really heavy in my opinion.

[Killamike49]

True, but if you take the half time feel of that, 110bpm, and then half time of that, you get 55bpm. Of course the difference would be that usually a drummer playing at 220bpm might just play the double kicks still at 32nd notes haha. The example in my head is Nile. That drummer will play blast beats and then switch to snare on 5 sometimes and that contrast is really heavy in my opinion.

Yeah, when deathcore bands go from tremelo picking with blasting to a really heavy break-down with half time drums, it's hilarious to watch everyone catch the groove. "I don't know why i like this breakdown man! It's just soooo heavy!"
Zomboy does this pretty well in dubstep i think. I don't even really like him, but going from snare on 2 and 4 to one snare on 3 is pretty much guaranteed heavy feel. I've been working on a song with a 2-step (is that where the snare is on 1 1/2 and 4, kinda like moobahton but half time?) drum pattern, that goes into dnb, then dubstep, then a glitch-hop pattern. Syncopation to the snare is way more important than i originally thought, it seems.

[Eskimo]

Maybe think about spending some money on some good plug-ins like camelphat, psp's vintage warmer 2, sausage fattener & some dynamic plugs aswell, there a lot more powerful than standard DAW plug-ins

Once your happy with your EQ's/levels look into things like parallel compression, resampling & frequency splitting

Hope this helps

Camelcrusher is free I believe and does the same distortion, just doesn't have that random inbuilt eq