This warm hum...

[Sinergy]

I know that this is going to sounds like a joke, but here goes haha.

The other night I was in my buddies car and we were driving around getting stoned and whatever, he's got a pretty good sound system in his car, and he threw on Skrillex's Breakn' A Sweat. And when I get stoned I hear music way differently, almost analyze it more.

And even though this song is skrillex blah blah blah, I noticed something about it that I hadn't before. It's got this REALLY warm, incredibly harmonic humming sound that seems to sit right between the sub bass and what would be the midrange screeches and growls, it follows the sub exactly. If you really listen it sounds like a choir humming along to the bass-line.

I was sort of puzzled, as that part of the song is what makes the song, and I've never heard anything like it in other tunes. I thought maybe i was just really stoned, but I got home and listened to it again in the morning and it was definitely not my imagination.

Is this just a pad of some sort? Throw an EQ on the tune, cut out the sub and almost all the high screechy stuff, and it comes out clearer. Sounds kind of like a supersaw in the way it moves and its width.

Simply low pass between like 200 and 300 and you can hear it pretty clearly.

Is this really just a pad? I'd love to have to be able to create something similar to this to have on top of a sub because it bring it to life almost.

[Electric_Head]

Sounds to me like you're referring to a sub that has some saturation on it.
Just a distorted sub for all intensive purposes.

[JFK]

Could be a sub layered with a low passed reece. Lots of people do this to add definition to their subs.

[Samuel_L_Damnson]

You high blud?

[AxeD]

Double tracked bass. Or layered.
What JFK said.

Listen to Andy Stott next time (try not to die though).

[Electric_Head]

He's not going to remember having made this thread.

[mromgwtf]

It's like saying

Skrillex sucks balls and he's shit but I'm suprised about his production skills

[mthrfnk]

I actually know what you mean OP, I'd guess at just making a layer above the sub using a lowpassed bass/reese or pad to fill out the spectrum. Either that or add harmonics to your sub, or even a combo.

[Sinergy]

Does adding harmonics to your sub pretty much only entail adding distortion? Because I know that you gotta be careful what FX you put on your sub because you'll usually lose it's powerfulness pretty quickly.

I don't think skrillex sucks, I just know this forum does.

Anyone want to shed some light on this lowpassed reese thing? b/c I know what reeses usually sound like, and this hum sounds nothing like a reese (although I'm not really sure what the definition of a reese is EXACTLY)

[statux]

WOW. i just went a listened to it and thats actually really cool. I never really noticed it! I need to read more into this

[Hircine]

It can be caused by the mastering. Too much maximizing / limiting / compressing plus the fact that some units already have a character or "colour" of their own.

[Sinergy]

^There is no way this was some unintentional (or even intentional) byproduct of mastering. It honestly sounds like a choir

[Artie_Fufkin]

Could be harmonics from distortion/saturation, compressor, limiter, exciter, whatever really as long as you get some harmonics. You could clip a sub and then low pass it. Bitcrush it and low pass. When you say hum, that's what I would think anyways. Or sample a mains hum for sub bass.

When you say it moves, it could anything that is 'detuned' against it. Try out different intervals of sine waves.
When you say wide....I don't know, that sounds weird to me. Stereo bass phasing?..

This reminded me of the bass from this song. It's a little 'different'.

[Artie_Fufkin]

this is going to sounds like a joke

Simply low pass between like 200 and 300 and you can hear it pretty clearly.

It honestly sounds like a choir

[NinjaEdit]

Between subbass and midrange is called bass.

[blinx]

Is the hum still there if you listen to the track and ARE NOT IN THE CAR? I can imagine something just virbrating due to resonance causing you to
"hear" something that in fact is not there in the mix but is a biproduct of environment of where you are playing the track. I know when we built our car audio systems back in highschool there was a fug ton of frequencies that would add extra harmonics/noise due to not dynomating everything into a giant single mass. Also you could be hearing over exuurtated subs, dirty amplifiers added battery hum.... the list goes on.

Just my 2 centa, reference the track with a set of monitors/headphones.... see if this "magic" tone is still there.

[baseband]

some songs use pad patches

[mthrfnk]

Had a thought the other day about this, The Doors played guitar, bass guitar and an electric piano/rhodes/organ or something in this track. It could actually be some harmonics from one of these that you can hear.

[AxeD]

Wait, some dickwad producer sampled the Doors to make this alleged masterpiece?
What a prick.

[mthrfnk]

Wait, some dickwad producer sampled the Doors to make this alleged masterpiece?
What a prick.

Quite the opposite, The Doors worked and collaborated with said "dickwad producer" to make it.