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amplex wrote:one word: WATERPHONE

lol but really, look around at some rare instruments, make your own. shit you can make a digeridoo type of thing with some giant PVC, and a stick. take some big pieces of thin metal, drill holes in them, use wire to string them up to a tree, and clank them together, record and add reverb. make your own spring reverb in between the two pieces of metal with the pvc tube as a resonator (metal preferred for spookiness really). circuitbend a toy and add a pot to the timer to pitch it way down (and bug the hell out of people playing it constantly =). glitch out your sega genesis by removing the cartridge while its loading and insert another one. record your dishwasher and mutate it with plugins til it sounds like a monstertruck/chainsaw (dont steal this idea i havent done it yet!). get into reaktor and just start putting modules together not knowing what the hell youre doing. check freesound.org, download like 500 samples and layer only the creepiest shit together in interesting ways (least inventive). build your own homemade analog/digital synth out of chips (CMOS 4000 series!!!!!!!!!) and pots etc (check out lunetta forums on electro-music.com). or just detune some square waves in massive and be like everyone else..

..you can make anything dark with the right timbres and textures. like someone said earlier, dissonance is everything. invent your own spooky digitally if not physically. mashup as many plugins as you can use on an element of your track youre not happy with but dont want to just delete. timestretching, distortion channels, pitching down, combo plugins, etc. Pluggo is awesome sometimes for completely changing a sound. and of course, a good tasteful reverb/dly can make a nonscary sound MUCH more edgey, just don't overdo it/overuse it. god knows i do sometimes.