How To Make This Sound - January 2013

[drooka]

Phase, Ring Mod, FM etc in the modulation section of massive, with envelopes on the pitch and lvls of those controls will make cool things hehe.

that sounds nice, thanks! i start to understand but my synths always sound too wet and blury if you know what i mean

try eq-ing out the 200-500 hz area, lots of mud there especially on distorted basses and such

[ehbes]

@ Dot vinyl crackle samples. MAD EP put a pack together a while a go that has been in every one of my production since, look for that

All right bit of an odd one here folks. Im looking at the sorta pad stab type bit at 0:04

[dotcurrency]

^Thanks! Exactly what I was looking for! And ironically I'm asking a question about pads too.

In this tune, very beginning, how does one go about making pads like this (in massive). Like I have no clue what wavetable to use and how to process it to sound soft like that:

Also in the drop in this tune, what are some good tips to keep in mind when layering pads and leads like this to have that ambient vibe to them?

[ehbes]

for almost all of my ambient track i sample orchestral pieces, pitch them around and try to make big wide deep sounds. youtube is your friend

[ShfeKrylon]

Im working on a remix of damage control by lazy rich and the drop im working on sounds like daydreamer from flux.
I cant seem to get that tight synth/bass,all im getting is this wide spread sound and the freq is all over the place.
i tried compressing the sounds but the sound im getting isnt that good.

can i get any tips on how to get that tight bass?any audio effects tips or vsts you would like to recommend.
thanks!


Drop at 0:53

[D00FY]

To me it sounds like a few synths layered.. could well be wrong though. IMO i'd say because his subbass, bass, and then then higher frequency buzz all has it's own place in the frequency spectrum making it sound tight.. think EQing will be an answer to making it a bit tighter.

What synth have you used? If Massive have a play around with the voicing.. hope this helps.

[123kidd]

Hi guys, just curious as to what effect is used here. Sounds to me like its being sent to a bus run through a cabinet? I could be wrong though
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Thanks

[123kidd]

D00FY is right. Layers are key to this sound. One tip for layering, is to take the patch that you are using, and just duplicate it. Then just tweak certain parameters slightly. Layer with sub bass and an arpeggiated synth.

[mthrfnk]

What effect?

Delta Heavy did a masterclass for either CM or FM, might help you out.

[AxeD]

It's limited to fucking bits, maybe that's it?

[DJFungi]

Hello everyone! This is my first post and it's about the track "Get By" produced by Delta Heavy. I love the beginning melody and would like to know what kind of instrument was used. Even better would be if someone knew a "how-to" that would help me produce this sound? I'm really new to production, but I do have some good basic knowledge of how to run Ableton. Thanks in advance for any help!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cOt9UcYGOU

[ShfeKrylon]

D00FY is right. Layers are key to this sound. One tip for layering, is to take the patch that you are using, and just duplicate it. Then just tweak certain parameters slightly. Layer with sub bass and an arpeggiated synth.

So what your saying is i duplicate the main synth and split it up into frequencies?
Hi | Mid | Low

I might try that once i get back.
Thanks for the tips!

[ShfeKrylon]

Nexus or Sylenth1.

Im sure there are some presets which sounds the same cept you have to tweak some parameters.

[Hircine]

D00FY is right. Layers are key to this sound. One tip for layering, is to take the patch that you are using, and just duplicate it. Then just tweak certain parameters slightly. Layer with sub bass and an arpeggiated synth.

So what your saying is i duplicate the main synth and split it up into frequencies?
Hi | Mid | Low

I might try that once i get back.
Thanks for the tips!

Main lead in that song has a high pitched detuned multiple saws / squares as the high end layer, make sure to turn the number of voices and spread up when messing with the unisono. The mid high layer is one of those massive awful wavetables that sound like a moisty fart. Carbon, Chrome and Scrapyard come to mind. It's equally wide but only slightly detuned. Mid low layer is a mono saturated sine. Sub layer is just a sine. Saturate and compress it as a whole to gel stuff together and send it to a small decay / room size reverb, maybe a bit of digital delay, just make sure it's short.

[DJFungi]

Well fortunately I have Sylenth1, guess it's time to spend a couple hours checking out the presets! Lol ;p

[123kidd]

mthrfnk didn't know they had one. ill be sure to check it out
AxeD yeah its so squashed

Thanks guys

[mthrfnk]

I still don't know what "effect" you're talking about btw.

[mthrfnk]

Pretty standard house "pluck" with some lowend, you can make them in most synths and there's hundred of tutorials out there.

[Umea]

Hmm does not sound very harmonic.. still not the right result :/

[DJFungi]

Cool beans, thanks for the reply! I'll check out youtube for some house "pluck" tutorials