Making sounds
Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 8:27 pm
Right.
Been learning to produce for i'd say 6 months now, i don't get as much time as i'd like each day. I started off learning what I thought was most important which was mainly sub bass and drums, i went really in-depth and feel quite confident in my abilities with them.
I then felt that I wanted to learn 1 synth inside out, to get some nice basslines/sounds in my productions. I chose Massive simply because it looked quite user friendly to start off with.
Now, after about of month or so of just playing around with it, i know what everything does within Massive and how it will affect the sound. The problem is, pretty much everything i seem to make in it comes out as being some high pitched, metallic sounding noise and it's really starting to piss me off.
When i listen to music, i like to work out how I think sounds are made, and most of the time i think lfo's are being used (correct me if i'm wrong)? When i add a lfo, or some sort of envelope, thats where i start getting the horrible metallic sounding noises.
Just wondering if anyone has any advice and have been through a similar thing as me? I have looked for youtube tutorials, but with such a silly amount of brostep tutorials, I can't really find any suitable ones.
Incase you wanna know what sorta sounds I try to go for, it's either :
- Dark, slow, dungeon sounds, or
- Aggressive mid range basslines similar to the ones in Metal Mouth, Smash That Badger, Kutz - Wined Up.
Again, any tips/adivce/links would be much appreciated
Been learning to produce for i'd say 6 months now, i don't get as much time as i'd like each day. I started off learning what I thought was most important which was mainly sub bass and drums, i went really in-depth and feel quite confident in my abilities with them.
I then felt that I wanted to learn 1 synth inside out, to get some nice basslines/sounds in my productions. I chose Massive simply because it looked quite user friendly to start off with.
Now, after about of month or so of just playing around with it, i know what everything does within Massive and how it will affect the sound. The problem is, pretty much everything i seem to make in it comes out as being some high pitched, metallic sounding noise and it's really starting to piss me off.
When i listen to music, i like to work out how I think sounds are made, and most of the time i think lfo's are being used (correct me if i'm wrong)? When i add a lfo, or some sort of envelope, thats where i start getting the horrible metallic sounding noises.
Just wondering if anyone has any advice and have been through a similar thing as me? I have looked for youtube tutorials, but with such a silly amount of brostep tutorials, I can't really find any suitable ones.
Incase you wanna know what sorta sounds I try to go for, it's either :
- Dark, slow, dungeon sounds, or
- Aggressive mid range basslines similar to the ones in Metal Mouth, Smash That Badger, Kutz - Wined Up.
Again, any tips/adivce/links would be much appreciated
