I'm looking for a good grime set of tuts, especially in the area of creating a good grime bassline. The nets are fairly sparse in the step-by-step of creating grime, and "grime tutorial" search on youtube yielded about 5-6 results of "Skrillex Glitch-step bass" right off the bat.
I thought I was on to a lead when I found a Massive tut, but the sound involves modern talking on Osc II and has that grit backbone which I'm not aiming for. I'm looking for original stuff here, Skreamizm-era stuff.
to be honest you should just listen to more grime, basslines are fairly straightforward if you're thinking
Just square waves, detune, modulate, lowpass, mess around with pitch envelopes, volume envelopes, cutoff envelopes, perhaps a sine or lowpassed triangle/square underneath etc.
Imo a sick grime track comes from the overall effect. I don't care if I've heard fatter bass tones if the bass and the drums combine to make a rowdy track. I made one of my best grime tracks in pretty much under an hour, and it was the percussion + the times that the bass hit that made the track, not the bass itself (I'm not saying that I'm great but you get the idea).
Re: Good grime tutorials?
Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2012 12:52 am
by Jux
Why not import some grime tracks into your DAW and attempt to recreate them? You will learn a lot this way (sound design, rhythm, mixing, arrangement and why it works). Plus you'll often develop your own sound as a result. Plus, grime instrumentals tend to vary as the genre has a lot of different influences. I know this isn't necessarily what you were asking for, but I hope it helps you out...I'm pretty sure it will.
-Jux
Re: Good grime tutorials?
Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2012 6:20 am
by Occupied Error
give m jokes how evy one wants to be shown how to do everything, as other ppl have said jst copy other tracks
http://soundcloud.com/occupied-error/iam-a-gallis this is grime/dubstp track i made recently id be happy to do a tutoiral on it if u think it would help (im not sayin it great lol). the mixdown a bit fucked up cos i tried to master it using ozone myself and i was a bit clueless at wat i was doin n coudnt be arsed to go bk to redo it
Re: Good grime tutorials?
Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2012 10:53 am
by Genevieve
Take an 808 kick you like, distort it. Done
You can do some cooler things with it by distorting it, resampling it and frequency splitting it and kinda play around with the different ranges like a reese and combine them again.
Re: Good grime tutorials?
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 3:09 am
by solidus
Jux wrote:Why not import some grime tracks into your DAW and attempt to recreate them? You will learn a lot this way (sound design, rhythm, mixing, arrangement and why it works). Plus you'll often develop your own sound as a result. Plus, grime instrumentals tend to vary as the genre has a lot of different influences. I know this isn't necessarily what you were asking for, but I hope it helps you out...I'm pretty sure it will.
-Jux
I've done that to a limited degree and it's worked for me, in regards to the general drum line and patterns and what not, as well as arrangement concepts, but I can't directly recreate a bassline, as I have little base in producing so far (starting out, trying to get a foothold) so I can't go out of my way and make a sound that recreates something. Hence the posting for this.
Occupied Error wrote:give m jokes how evy one wants to be shown how to do everything, as other ppl have said jst copy other tracks
http://soundcloud.com/occupied-error/iam-a-gallis this is grime/dubstp track i made recently id be happy to do a tutoiral on it if u think it would help (im not sayin it great lol). the mixdown a bit fucked up cos i tried to master it using ozone myself and i was a bit clueless at wat i was doin n coudnt be arsed to go bk to redo it
That would help! although I'd only need help with the bassline areas and a bit of the f/x.