Versuz wrote:big ups for doing this, big fan of your stuff!
questions:
what process do you go through to make your sub bass and and midrange bass flow together and sounding huge?
how should i mix down my tracks if i want to play them out in clubs?
do you plan on making any different genres in the near future?
how was it working with the guys from korn who have a lot of musical background?
what did you do use for the piano in your intro for "ghost"?
in your track "the scientist" with vaski how did you make that bass @ :55 that sounds like its being pitched down?
do you plan on doing collabs more often with other people in the Rottun crew besides excision or datsik? (liquid stranger, ajapai, etc)
thanks and keep up the good work
Hey man good questions, and lots of them. Let's see here...
Use a pure sine wave for your sub. Any synth can do this. Roll it off at around 150hz or something. No hard rule, but be mindful of the notes your playing. Then layer in your midrange which you will hi pass at around 80 - 140 depending on the sound again. You just don't want any weird phasing with your sub. Route all your mid range stuff to a bus and then use a plugin that will allow you to control the stereo width of a designated frequency band. The idea here is to mono all of the low frequencies of your mid range bass. I like to mono everything below 200 usually but some people go higher I've heard. I just like more width than most people on my midrange stuff I think. If you mix the sub and the midrange bass together they should sound pretty fucking huge if the levels are balanced. Its really not rocket science here.
To mix tracks for the club I usually just mix everything pretty hot into the master. Clipping like 2 - 3 db in places when transients pop. Then I put a limiter on the master (L2 usually) and then just make sure its not working too hard. Bounce it down and listen to it. If it sounds good and loud next to a mastered tune then your all set. Even if its not quite as good, I say fuck it, its just a tester anyhow.
Yes I plan to make many different genres in the future. I've been working on lots of 140 bpm stuff that is more straight beat oriented but with snares on the 4 or 8. And then shuffley "dismantle" type percussion. Really fucking hard heavy sounding shit tho.
The experience with Korn was indescribable for me. Growing up listening to them and then getting to work and tour with them was a life changing experience that I will never forget. Jonathan has become a great friend that I look up to and respect so much. I learned a lot about "real" music working with them as well. It was just all around a great experience.
The piano on the intro to Ghost was something I quickly wrote using a stock piano multisample instrument in logics EXS-24. I'm not sure which exact one it was but you can flick through them and find it pretty easily if you use logic.
The pitch down bass that you are referring to is something I've used in multiple tracks. It's achieved using a square wave osc set to formant. In massive. Just use a simple envelope to bring the formant position down and then also bring down the pitch of the osc. I think there was some simple tube saturation and maybe a bit of Unison or something. Maybe some phasing on it as well.
I plan to collaborate with so many people but I'm so bad at getting around to them all. Me and Ajapai have actually started a couple things and I've started stuff with some other people too but its so hard to get to it all. I will one day. Liquid Stranger is a homie as well that I really need to get something going with.
