How To Sound Like Skrillex & Make Skrillex Bass

[Electric_Head]

http://soundcloud.com/randorando/im-bac ... ist-teaser

[hookey]

http://soundcloud.com/randorando/im-bac ... ist-teaser

Thats decent but nowere near SMANS. Lots of harmonics and sound missing. It suffers from that "cow" effect from modulating the EQ, like Dan's take on Youtube.

[Today]

y u so obsessed with one track... there's so much good aggressive electronica out there

[Attila]

I know it wasn't directed toward me, but the reason im interested is that-despite its popularity and everything-it still has one of the most ridiculous and incomprehensible drops I've ever heard, and that after two years no one has come close to explaining what the hells going on during it.

For virtually every other sound someone could ask about, some sort of vague direction could be given (modulate blahblahblah on a Reece, etc), but the best direction anyone can give so far for smans is "uh, there might be someone complex fm synthesis happening" which is like asking for the rough blueprints of a building and being given a sheet of paper that only says its made of brick. Its the mystery behind something that complicated.

[Today]

everyone's on about synthing a growly bass note with FM8 then modding formants with a parametric EQ. Which is fine, and not even difficult. but to be honest it still sounds like m-talk wavetable modulation to me.

There's plenty of ways to get a vocal gurgling growly sound. the better question is what's it good for. The only thing making scary monsters or really anything else a "big tune" is they way all the sounds work together. layering and context.

[RandoRando]

hooky why are you in the skrillex thread.

tunes like this are my fav, not skrillex, its in my top 20 tunes of all all time.

[elyhess]

why do people want to sound like skrill-dog-chillionaire?

[Augment]

everyone's on about synthing a growly bass note with FM8 then modding formants with a parametric EQ. Which is fine, and not even difficult. but to be honest it still sounds like m-talk wavetable modulation to me.

There's plenty of ways to get a vocal gurgling growly sound. the better question is what's it good for. The only thing making scary monsters or really anything else a "big tune" is they way all the sounds work together. layering and context.

The growl in smans does not at all sound like m-talk, trust me

[mthrfnk]

why do people want to sound like skrill-dog-chillionaire?

Probably because he's getting money and hos.

[mthrfnk]

Also lol:

[spoot088]

http://soundcloud.com/pitches_and_hoes/ ... -eq-is-all

who thinks they got closer?

[spoot088]

added more EQ

http://soundcloud.com/pitches_and_hoes/crappy-monsters2

[Sechah]

added more EQ

http://soundcloud.com/pitches_and_hoes/crappy-monsters2

Wow, you got it. This is the closest I've seen anyone get to it.

Mind making a tutorial? I want to see the synth and the formants you used.

[spoot088]

fa sho'

i'm actually in the process of trying to put out some stuff so hopefully i'll include a few tutorials when i do

[narrator]

added more EQ

http://soundcloud.com/pitches_and_hoes/crappy-monsters2

That sounds really nice man. I'm intrigued.

[hookey]

hooky why are you in the skrillex thread.

tunes like this are my fav, not skrillex, its in my top 20 tunes of all all time.

Yeah why I am on a Skrillex production thread talking about Skrillex's production?

And that track further proves my point. Skrillex set the next level in agressive midranges. Everyone is trying but everyone sounds dull. When you think thats close, you A/B it with Scary Monsters and you see you are still miles away in harmonic content and the general body of the sound.

That tune is good, but the midrange work is so stale. It got those disonant fm tones to it and not much more.

BTW, noticed how Skrillex has never used that patch again and his stuff is starting to sound like more generic brostep? Compare the Scary Monsters midrange work to this recently leaked tune from his new album:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSmjttXQHPg

I don't like at all those annoying ass high pitched noises he's making lately.

[ehbes]

oh hai

Soundcloud

[elyhess]

Skrill-dawg-chillionaire

[RandoRando]

hooky why are you in the skrillex thread.

tunes like this are my fav, not skrillex, its in my top 20 tunes of all all time.

Yeah why I am on a Skrillex production thread talking about Skrillex's production?

And that track further proves my point. Skrillex set the next level in agressive midranges. Everyone is trying but everyone sounds dull. When you think thats close, you A/B it with Scary Monsters and you see you are still miles away in harmonic content and the general body of the sound.

That tune is good, but the midrange work is so stale. It got those disonant fm tones to it and not much more.

BTW, noticed how Skrillex has never used that patch again and his stuff is starting to sound like more generic brostep? Compare the Scary Monsters midrange work to this recently leaked tune from his new album:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSmjttXQHPg

I don't like at all those annoying ass high pitched noises he's making lately.

you are THE hooky who made that track right? i know he posts here but your usernameis hookEy so im unsure.

and that SC link up there from spooot, its distorted as hell and doesnt really have clean harmonics and tone to it like SMANS. you got the pitch pretty much spot on, but the sound could use work.

i didnt EQ mine at all, ill EQ formant it and touch it up, the WIP that i used it in is basically just FM8 dry.

[sunny_b_uk]

you are THE hooky who made that track right?

definitely not, i checked hookEy's posts and six months ago he posted "I never really understood the difference between grime and dubstep. Someone explain??"

Post a soundcloud sample if it's as easy to replicate.

yes it is easy once you've had enough practice making midrange basses. you can carry on rolling your eyes because im not doing a scary monsters remake just for you.

listen to my sig if you wana judge whether you think im capable or not of doing it i don't have time to make a specialised effort for a random when im busy working on SONGS not individual basses to post on soundcloud like n00bs do.

iv actually been producing music for 10 years straight so its funny to see some dumbass that couldn't tell the difference between grime and dubstep to backfire at me

tbh the REAL truth is its down to how good the person is at fine-tweaking sounds, its not down to a single method..
i guarantee there's a lot of ways of doing this. even recording a fart, wavecycling it and automating FX can honestly result in perfected skrillex sounds (or whatever you desire!)

if you really want those sounds then think of ways you can tweak cleverly! changing the order of your FX chain can make heaps of difference (especially when a lot of distortion is involved), don't just automate standard parameters.. automate the dry/wet of plugins..

create controls that adjust several parameters, reroute to other busses and send the audio to more than one FX chain opens more doors, using ultra fast LFOs on certain parameters can even give pleasing results.. sometimes even peaking the sound in the red can actually give better results (obviously bounce to wav & lower the volume again). there's tonnes of ways to tweak in new directions!

its down to experience & creative thinking & i don't see how any who's reading this could disagree with what im saying.
honestly spend more in your DAW to get what you want, rather than constantly moaning on several threads about how every1 else fails at copying skrillex.