How To Make This Sound - January 2013

[brandonstastny]

(Brostep Warning)
Curious on the high pitch bass at 1:28. Getting fairly close in Massive, would be cool if someone has already cracked down on it.

How far have you come with this? Basically, just take a saw or something and apply an envelope on the pitch and you should already be in the ballpark.
Btw, just have to say that I'm surprised at how many producers actually sampled Skrillex's growl from syndicate and used it in their tracks without doing much to it... Kinda lame

Having trouble finding the pitch, but yeah I figured that growl was sampled. I'm listening to syndicate now but don't see where it was taken out of this track? *edit found it in the trailer Thanks for the response though man!

[brandonstastny]

(Brostep Warning)
Curious on the high pitch bass at 1:28. Getting fairly close in Massive, would be cool if someone has already cracked down on it.

How far have you come with this? Basically, just take a saw or something and apply an envelope on the pitch and you should already be in the ballpark.
Btw, just have to say that I'm surprised at how many producers actually sampled Skrillex's growl from syndicate and used it in their tracks without doing much to it... Kinda lame

Linking Massive's performer to the pitch and the inverse to the cutoff of filter is a nice way to get the sych'd pitching and cutoff.

Thats explained kinda badly - I'll post a screenshot if you need more info.

Would love to see your take on it! I understand the performer on pitch, losing you on inverse to the cutoff of filter haha. Thanks for the response though!

[shakas]

this is from an old song, but, the sound always stood out to me and i'm curious about it. by todays standards it might just sound like beginner wobbles but there is something about its timbre that still sounds strange and unique to me. it's from Ollie! - You Stupid tnuc (also had a bare noize remix but he just sampled the same sounds) although i'm interested in every sound in the song the one that stands out to me the most begins at about :44+ ...the others i have a pretty good idea about.
...i get how to make it whomp and it sounds like there might be a little delay on it...but there's something about the actual sound of it i can't quite get.

[IamDroid]

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Made this in massive to help somebody out making a different sound; it's basically the same thing. Let me know if you're interested and I'll explain it.

Please explain.. I've been looking for these darkstep style gritty wobbles.

[Hircine]

darkstep is a dnb genre, that's tear out dubstep. you can find more sounds like that on Hench.

[axolotl-dubstep]

Love this tune! How is the sound at 1.39 created? A reece bass with filter modulation? It's got such a fantastic tone and timbre I just love it, thanks in advance for any help

[cmgoodman1226]

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Made this in massive to help somebody out making a different sound; it's basically the same thing. Let me know if you're interested and I'll explain it.

Please explain.. I've been looking for these darkstep style gritty wobbles.

It was pretty simple really. I used Massive with very minimal effects. the gist of what I did is just use a square wave, which I separated into 10 different voices, each detuned by about 4 cents (anymore detuned and it will start to sound a bit hollow and breathy with not enough clear high end). I also put some tube distortion and light dimension expander to add to it.

*the most important parts of the sound itself is the filter movemont (which gives it the biting top end) and the delay (which gives it that sort of metallic edge)
I used massive's "band reject" filter for this one, bandwidth to just past 12:00 and resonance to about 9:00. I then assigned an envelope to modulate the cutoff of said filter (I set the envelope with a medium attack and the "level" on the decay to just about 11:00) The filter starts completely to the right at the start of each note (fully open) and it closes about halfway (to about 12:00) and then reopens a little at each note.

From there I used fl's delay, which has a preset called "hot tin roof" which uses a very quick delay and gives it that metallic sort of character.

Beyond that, I eq'd just a bit and added some more distortion, and then hipassed the sound and added in a straight sinewave sub, and viola!

[BLASKO]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM-cRDIlcrM


going to give it a go, trying to make drum and bass, i particularly like mefjus style, just wondering if anyone has any tips, videos, tutorials, anything of the sort. to help me get the same-ish sound, i dont want to copy him, but his style of basses and drums or mind blowing to me. anyways HELP ME OUT DUBSTEPFORUM!!!!!!!!!!!

[SaveMidnight]

Kick on 1 and 11
Snare on 5 and 13
Add Bass
Add Pads
Use some breaks
More stuff
success.

[Wobzor]

Well for bass part, try laying everything in saws first. Making a nice dnb "rhythm". Use some lowpass filters, glitches (I recommend dBlue Glitch VST) and when you are happy with the arrangement just make a few basses and switch saws with them. When I make reeses, I tend to resample quite a lot. Running that sound though some fx over and over again. I love IL Harmor for that. It's pretty easy to use and I like the design

[IamDroid]

Thanks for sharing man, I'll make the patch in a little bit and see if I can make something out of it

[BLASKO]

i have been using harmor alot lately just tryin to get the hang of it.
i was just wondering on his basses how he gets them............. i guess hollow?? clean?? cause is far as i can tell there isnt much distortion??
maybe its just they way he filters them???? you know any good posts or tutorials i can get my knowledge game up on???

[Wobzor]

i have been using harmor alot lately just tryin to get the hang of it.
i was just wondering on his basses how he gets them............. i guess hollow?? clean?? cause is far as i can tell there isnt much distortion??
maybe its just they way he filters them???? you know any good posts or tutorials i can get my knowledge game up on???

http://www.youtube.com/user/seamlessr << pretty good harmor tuts.

[twilight]

Gahh I love this bass sound so much in this loefah remix. It plays when it first drops. This sound seems impossible to get. Any idea?

[Dustwyrm]

Hey Fellas -

I wanted to see if I could get some advice on how to produce a specific type of sound. I've tried various techniques but am coming up short and I'm sure some of you more experienced producers out there can probably pin-point this with ease.

That said - The sound is what I would describe as a soft siren. I call it a siren because it pulsates much like that of a cop car or fire truck or emergency vehicle. Forekast is one of my favorite producers andI've included a link to his tune May 7th.

Now I want to make it clear I am not trying to copy his sound or steal his synths, but I genuinely want to learn how you can make a synth sound siren-ish for lack of a better word. I've trying using an LFO on different parameters such as Resonance but no matter how much I adjust the LFO it doesn't come out quite right. I've tried sidechaining the synth to a repeated kick or percussion instrument to make it work, but nothing. I've tried using a peak controller but I can't adjust it properly against the Kick I'm assigning it to.

Here is the link and he uses the sound throughout the tune, most noticeable after the intro when the percussion fades out and it's just the string synth and siren sound. It's a really nice sound and I really want to understand what technique he's using to create the effect. All help is appreciated.

Soundcloud

[Hircine]

Slow lfo to the pitch of a pulse or a sine, assign an envelope with long attack and release to the lfo speed.

[Dustwyrm]

Interesting. I haven't tried to assign the LFO to the pitch.

Any way you can elaborate on how to get the envelope matched up to the LFO speed. I'm assuming this is something you need to manually do while listening and adjusting. But for instance, in Massive as an example, is there a tool that can automatically sync the envelope and LFO speed?

[tomz]

Sup guys, I need the help of the gurus in this forum. I've been trying to make this sound for a while now, i've heard it in some pegboard nerds tracks and even skrill sometimes. Im talking about the high "screech" in here, that kind of high pitch distorted sound. I'm pretty sure its made in massive, but i've been playing with the scream filter and formant wavetables with no luck, I just get some high pitch thin sound with no density at all. Any help?



At 0:54 it kicks in, and its repeated with variations throughout the track.
Thanks!

[Wobzor]

Hey Fellas -

I wanted to see if I could get some advice on how to produce a specific type of sound. I've tried various techniques but am coming up short and I'm sure some of you more experienced producers out there can probably pin-point this with ease.

That said - The sound is what I would describe as a soft siren. I call it a siren because it pulsates much like that of a cop car or fire truck or emergency vehicle. Forekast is one of my favorite producers andI've included a link to his tune May 7th.

Now I want to make it clear I am not trying to copy his sound or steal his synths, but I genuinely want to learn how you can make a synth sound siren-ish for lack of a better word. I've trying using an LFO on different parameters such as Resonance but no matter how much I adjust the LFO it doesn't come out quite right. I've tried sidechaining the synth to a repeated kick or percussion instrument to make it work, but nothing. I've tried using a peak controller but I can't adjust it properly against the Kick I'm assigning it to.

Here is the link and he uses the sound throughout the tune, most noticeable after the intro when the percussion fades out and it's just the string synth and siren sound. It's a really nice sound and I really want to understand what technique he's using to create the effect. All help is appreciated.

Soundcloud

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kurw8jdsREY < here ya go

[Warfare Dubstep]

Hey fam, how can I make my sub bass sound like this ? Any additional filters I may need? It's like a bassline with a duck sound haha it sounds epic.