The 'help me make this sound!' thread

[TherapyBE]

Trying to figure out how to make this crushed, breath-of-shattering-ice sound found in many songs but the only one I can think of offhand is DZ - Just Rolling. I'm not sure exactly what it is, my guess is some type of bit crusher effect amongst other things. I hear it all over the place, slightly different every time. How do they do it??


Found precisely at 2:51:

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


Thanks!

sounds like a processed scratch sample or something like that.
not sure though.

[meam]

Hi everybody !
I'm beginner to procuction and would like to get something similar that start o,45 to 0,48 of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D95nHHHRX1k it's just an example.....

when i'm using massive i can get the envellope right for the attack etc just can get the, how to say, base of the sound rigth, i always end with some kind of lead ...
So after hours of browsing for help, trying to start from raw of from different ready made preset from massive , reason or nexus i'm polluting your forum.
Is someone can help ?

[Runna and Cricky]

Bit of a bait one, but been trying to make this sound in Reason. The high lead from the drop. Im guessing its alot of screams involved to distort like that? Bit of guidance if anyone knows how would be appreciated.

FreeStylers - Cracks (Flux Pavillion Remix)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1VLaXoRRdk

If this is easier to make with a seperate VST, I use Logic too.

Anyone help with this

i too would love to know this too.. it's kind on hip hop sounding, dr dre style..

Same reason i'm here, i think i've come close, so i'll post what i'm doing and maybe some one can work on it from there
Thor -
osc 1
Analog - the ramp wave, oct 0
analog - another ramp wave, oct 1
analog - square, PW 64, oct 2
Low pass filter Freq 8.84 khz Res around 37

thor into an M Class Equalizer with
Low shelf - Freq 134.2
Gain - -12.00
Q -0.62

Param 2 - Freq 1.9
gain - 5.1
Q - 5.7

Hi shelf
Freq - 7.7
Gain 5.7
Q - 0.62

into Vocoder
swtich to equalizer
tune the shift to full

into reverb
only a time amount of dry/wet ( 2 - 6 )

Scream
Damage control 38
Overdrive
P1 1:94
P2 2:38
boost the mid and high on the cut
Reso - 115
scale 0
auto 40
type D

into a second scream
Damage control 56
Warp
P1 1:40
P2 2:28

turn cut off

body
reso 83
scale 76
auto 0
type A


and that's what i have, hopefully you can understand it!
if any one makes any improvments, please post them back:)
you'll probably find that after the sound there's a horrible ring out metally sound
if you automate the frequncy on the thor filter to 0 everytime the note stops, you wont hear it:)

Good one , but it sounds just as low quality as in the video . EDIT : My bad , my speakers just died.

[Nacklewicket]

what is this really low scratchy noise i hear in each and every track?
listen to this just as an example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP4YFBxQ ... re=related at 0:28 it comes in as the sub does
its really low under the sub but its there
im thinking maybe it has got to do with the sub? like at the start or end of each sub note it makes that noise?

feeling really confused, just curious why that sound is in soooo many tracks and how to achieve it.

[meaty]

what is this really low scratchy noise i hear in each and every track?
listen to this just as an example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP4YFBxQ ... re=related at 0:28 it comes in as the sub does
its really low under the sub but its there
im thinking maybe it has got to do with the sub? like at the start or end of each sub note it makes that noise?

feeling really confused, just curious why that sound is in soooo many tracks and how to achieve it.

im pretty sure thats distortion added to the really low notes on the track that youtube adds in cuz its compression sucks. Happens to my songs when i uploaded them.

[Runna and Cricky]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n935NU5SuRk
0:30 How to make this synth . I am really really desperate with this . I would do anything to get some advice .
Helps DSF

[Neff]

yes..i know his name is dr philth lets just try and be grown ups here

anyway its the noise at 4:01 and i really wanna know how to re create it, been trying for hours

[Runna and Cricky]

yes..i know his name is dr philth lets just try and be grown ups here

anyway its the noise at 4:01 and i really wanna know how to re create it, been trying for hours

Don't worry you will not get any help here . It's a rare case if someone does.

[icelizarrd]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n935NU5SuRk
0:30 How to make this synth . I am really really desperate with this . I would do anything to get some advice .
Helps DSF

Well, if you haven't tried this already, get a synth with at least 3 sawtooth oscillators. Detune them slightly from one another. Maybe put one of them an octave below the rest, for this particular synth. Give the amp envelope a short-but-not-too-short attack.

If your synth has a unison effect, add that and fiddle with it as well.

Not sure about filters; doesn't sound highly filtered to me, but maybe there's some resonance? So, I think there is a low-pass filter, but go easy on it, and don't use an envelope that really stands out.

Set the synth to monophonic or legato (legato is preferable if you have the option), and give it some portamento.

There's a faint "wobbling" to that synth. Try using a fast, shallow LFO on the amplitude or filter cutoff--another other option might be modulating the phase of the oscillators? Not sure. Either way, if your synth supports this, give the LFO a bit of a delayed start. The wobbling doesn't start right away in the YouTube example.

Lastly, add a chorus effect, maybe a saturation plugin for some warmth, and a delay. (Actually, on that note, maybe the "wobbling" is caused by a fast chorus. You might experiment with that too.)

Sorry I can't be more definite about any of this.

[nruen]

@Neff Sounds like he's bitcrushed using a high samplerate : bitdepth ratio then noise-gated and compressed the fuck out of it.

[budsteq]

hey guys, can anyone deconstruct the drop in "The future"" by trolley snatcha ? that shit is fucking dope

[Runna and Cricky]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n935NU5SuRk
0:30 How to make this synth . I am really really desperate with this . I would do anything to get some advice .
Helps DSF

Well, if you haven't tried this already, get a synth with at least 3 sawtooth oscillators. Detune them slightly from one another. Maybe put one of them an octave below the rest, for this particular synth. Give the amp envelope a short-but-not-too-short attack.

If your synth has a unison effect, add that and fiddle with it as well.

Not sure about filters; doesn't sound highly filtered to me, but maybe there's some resonance? So, I think there is a low-pass filter, but go easy on it, and don't use an envelope that really stands out.

Set the synth to monophonic or legato (legato is preferable if you have the option), and give it some portamento.

There's a faint "wobbling" to that synth. Try using a fast, shallow LFO on the amplitude or filter cutoff--another other option might be modulating the phase of the oscillators? Not sure. Either way, if your synth supports this, give the LFO a bit of a delayed start. The wobbling doesn't start right away in the YouTube example.

Lastly, add a chorus effect, maybe a saturation plugin for some warmth, and a delay. (Actually, on that note, maybe the "wobbling" is caused by a fast chorus. You might experiment with that too.)

Sorry I can't be more definite about any of this.

I think you didn't understand what I want .
I want that funky synth in 0:29-0:31 , thanks.
but I'll your small tutorial out too

[silkpantsman]

yes..i know his name is dr philth lets just try and be grown ups here

anyway its the noise at 4:01 and i really wanna know how to re create it, been trying for hours

Don't worry you will not get any help here . It's a rare case if someone does.

Well you certainly helped...'let me add to the lack of responses by bringing my own negativity to the thread'. A) ders a lot of sounds happening a description of the sound wud b nice i dont even know which 1 hes talking about B) its not like the peeps on this forum hav this infinite knowledge they refuse to share its just most of them didnt get to the point der at by hoping some1 else wud solve der problems. Making sounds is about combining personal taste and a lil bit of luck to knowledge (which is already in this forum if you look for it). I started producing a year ago and its all about putting the nut down and figuring it out the hard way.

I dont know how this sound was made but if i was to try make it or something like it myself i wud sample a tom or pitched down snare with very lil attack set the sampler to reloop then automate a filter on the sound cause it sounds like ders a filter sweep happening! then adjust the sample playback markers to taste. It wud also be cool to automate the transpose id imagine.

[AllNightDayDream]

reason 4 user

I'm trying to recreate the sound of a horde of insects crawling around, real crackly but pronounced, as if you were much smaller than the insects. If anyone could direct me to some samples, that'd be cool, too.

[Neff]

I dont know how this sound was made but if i was to try make it or something like it myself i wud sample a tom or pitched down snare with very lil attack set the sampler to reloop then automate a filter on the sound cause it sounds like ders a filter sweep happening! then adjust the sample playback markers to taste. It wud also be cool to automate the transpose id imagine.

@Neff Sounds like he's bitcrushed using a high samplerate : bitdepth ratio then noise-gated and compressed the fuck out of it.

thanks for the replies guys ima try these out and post back if i have any success

[budsteq]

hey guys, can anyone deconstruct the drop in "The future"" by trolley snatcha ? that shit is fucking dope

anyone ? im on FL9 btw

[jogo]

Ok so, I know how to make wobbles and before anyone starts nagging, I'm not trying to copy everyone else..
this is just me, trying to FINALLY get rid of my endless frustration not knowing how they make it :p I need to satisfie my mind lol

everyone knows it, this "trumpet" wobbly sound they use in almost every Jump Up Dnb tune,
like in Tantrum Desire - Here They Come, the wobble that drops @ 1:08
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68PKGyTZXUA

anyone can give me the basics or a nice tutorial? cuz I can't find any :/

muches gracios!

[Neff]

Ok so, I know how to make wobbles and before anyone starts nagging, I'm not trying to copy everyone else..
this is just me, trying to FINALLY get rid of my endless frustration not knowing how they make it :p I need to satisfie my mind lol

everyone knows it, this "trumpet" wobbly sound they use in almost every Jump Up Dnb tune,
like in Tantrum Desire - Here They Come, the wobble that drops @ 1:08
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68PKGyTZXUA

anyone can give me the basics or a nice tutorial? cuz I can't find any :/

muches gracios!

sup homieee

i managed to get something by having a sine triangle wave and put it through a lowpass filer with the res all the way up and the cut off about midway

it sounds abit flat but with some distortion you can get something similar to it

[icelizarrd]

I think you didn't understand what I want .
I want that funky synth in 0:29-0:31 , thanks.
but I'll your small tutorial out too

Whoops, sorry >_>

Hrmm, well, I'm not really sure which sound you mean then, to be honest. Do you mean the quiet filtered white noise sort of sound? Or the bass?

Maybe there's a timing issue here, thanks to YouTube weirdness. At around :31 for me, there's a synth with a heavy ping-pong delay that comes in for a bit, is that the one?

Or maybe my "tutorial" was just way too far off from what you wanted after all

[Runna and Cricky]

I think you didn't understand what I want .
I want that funky synth in 0:29-0:31 , thanks.
but I'll your small tutorial out too

Whoops, sorry >_>

Hrmm, well, I'm not really sure which sound you mean then, to be honest. Do you mean the quiet filtered white noise sort of sound? Or the bass?

Maybe there's a timing issue here, thanks to YouTube weirdness. At around :31 for me, there's a synth with a heavy ping-pong delay that comes in for a bit, is that the one?

Or maybe my "tutorial" was just way too far off from what you wanted after all

It's exactly at 0:29-0:31 the synth what comes right in after the drop . It's not the wobble , it's also at 0:43-0:44 , 0:49-0:52 .
Thank you very much