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making my music "heavier"
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 4:11 am
by Crosano
So currently whenever i try to add more sounds or anything to make a heavier song, or something less minimal it makes it sound really muddy and like things are clashing, i am pretty sure it isn't because it is out of key, because it is all in the same scale (though different octaves). I was wondering what might be causing that ? Oh btw I am using FL if that has any effect on things like this, btw i am extremely new to all this :/
Re: making my music "heavier"
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 4:19 am
by ehbes
try either duplicating the bass and panning left and right, or adding some unison with a bunch of voices.
Re: making my music "heavier"
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 4:29 am
by fragments
Yea, it sounds like you are probably getting frequency clashing. You need to learn to EQ your sounds to fit together...try reading this
http://www.dnbscene.com/article/88-thin ... tutorial/1
Re: making my music "heavier"
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 5:51 am
by meer
Listen to figure out which frequency ranges have too much going on. Cut those frequencies on tracks that don't need them, i.e., highpass everything. Keep the low frequencies mono.
Re: making my music "heavier"
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 7:32 am
by triga
Maybe think about spending some money on some good plug-ins like camelphat, psp's vintage warmer 2, sausage fattener & some dynamic plugs aswell, there a lot more powerful than standard DAW plug-ins
Once your happy with your EQ's/levels look into things like parallel compression, resampling & frequency splitting
Hope this helps
Re: making my music "heavier"
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 11:38 am
by Filthzilla
Crosano wrote:btw I am using FL if that has any effect on things like this, btw i am extremely new to all this :/
Definitely doesn't.
Don't let anyone tell you that!
Re: making my music "heavier"
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 12:00 pm
by hutyluty
Add some sub bass
Re: making my music "heavier"
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 1:42 pm
by Samuel_L_Damnson
hutyluty wrote:Add some sub bass
Cant be heavy without actual bass
Re: making my music "heavier"
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 2:33 pm
by Killamike49
triga wrote:Maybe think about spending some money on some good plug-ins like camelphat, psp's vintage warmer 2, sausage fattener & some dynamic plugs aswell, there a lot more powerful than standard DAW plug-ins
Once your happy with your EQ's/levels look into things like parallel compression, resampling & frequency splitting
Hope this helps
Don't buy anything if you don't know exactly, in precise terms, what it does. Otherwise you might just throw money at something because the website makes the product seem like it magically mixes your tracks for you.
This isn't true.
Read:
http://www.dnbscene.com/article/88-thin ... q-tutorial
http://www.dnbscene.com/article/1474-co ... n-tutorial
And
http://www.dubstepforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=74832
It should help.
If you feel like sending me your project file so i can give you a step in the right direction, PM me.
Re: making my music "heavier"
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 3:08 pm
by Artie_Fufkin
hutyluty wrote:Add some sub bass
More specifically, cut the bass from things that you don't want to be heavy and make sure the bass follows whatever element you want to be heavy, pitch/volume/general movement-wise.
Re: making my music "heavier"
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 6:19 pm
by Crosano
Artie Fufkin wrote:hutyluty wrote:Add some sub bass
More specifically, cut the bass from things that you don't want to be heavy and make sure the bass follows whatever element you want to be heavy, pitch/volume/general movement-wise.
Added both of these ideas, making my track sound a little better step by step
Re: making my music "heavier"
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 6:21 pm
by Crosano
I am on page 3 of this article, so far I am really enjoying how the author makes it really easy to understand
Thanks for sharing this with me
Re: making my music "heavier"
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 7:20 pm
by bassinine
lots of fucking distortion.
and then more fucking distortion.
Re: making my music "heavier"
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 7:22 pm
by Killamike49
bassinine wrote:lots of fucking distortion.
and then more fucking distortion.
Don't forget to crush those bits, bro.
Re: making my music "heavier"
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 7:25 pm
by bassinine
ugh. h8 bitcrushers.
simple reese with lots of filter movement + tons of post process distortion = mm noisia.
Re: making my music "heavier"
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 8:07 pm
by Crosano
bassinine wrote:ugh. h8 bitcrushers.
simple reese with lots of filter movement + tons of post process distortion = mm noisia.
Re: making my music "heavier"
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 8:11 pm
by ehbes
bassinine wrote:ugh. h8 bitcrushers.
simple reese with lots of filter movement + tons of post process distortion = mm noisia.
if only it was that easy...
Re: making my music "heavier"
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 8:54 pm
by JTMMusicuk
i thought noisia just used presets..
Re: making my music "heavier"
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 9:52 pm
by render
its all about getting the best possible result from your synth, then paralell processing/distorting until it sounds fat enough to you. Also spreading the higher frequencies while monoing the lower ones are a good trick, delaying the L/R channel with a tad can also fatten up stuff (just a little, dont get phasing), also panning different frequencies for movement. Panning is very very powerful if u know how to use it (not hard panning, practice, experiment a lot) but first of all be sure u know how to EQ, thats the most important. I don't know about FL's EQ, but get the waves EQ its accurate as fuck, also analyse the tracks you want to A/B your track with, with a spectrum.
Re: making my music "heavier"
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 9:58 pm
by hutyluty
tape distortion on sub bass