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I'm looking for some new ideas for layers and techniques to make different sounds. What kind of effects do you guys normally put on top of your sounds to shape what you want?

Like for example I love using guitar rig on almost all of my sounds. There are a ton of reverb and delay options as well as distortion effects.

I find myself using less and less FX and using the wet/dry knob, heavy on the dry.

I put two phasers or pan etc in a row so it adds an extra subtle swish to the cycle, like a flame flickering

I use FM8 so I don't use a lot of external proccessing but usually it's automated EQs or Reverbs with the dry/wet automated etc, I use a little distortion occasionally and I also use frOhmage (it's a free plugin from Ohmforce) so yeah, just small amounts of things and a lot of automation and EQ I guess...

Also (sorry for the double post) try layering noise, a sub or just a saw at a low volume under some of your synths to make them sound more full, try duplicating it and panning it hard left and hard right and delaying one channel by a couple of milliseconds etc, let me know if this is helpful.

oh w8 misread that nvm

Personally recently I have stopped using Inserts fx. I create a chain of Sends instead. This is mainly due to being limited to a 32 bit vista home premium pc and generally like working with vst's and rather than bouncing them down to audio. In general I tend to use the chain of following plugins:

Waves SSL Bus Compressor
Sausage Fattner
Camel Phat 3
Camel Crusher
Ferric TDS
Satson (ComputerMusic)
Reverberate (ComputerMusic)
Tal Dub 2 Delay
BiFilter2

I have also just started using the Waves Kramer Master Tape plug in for that nice saturated tape feel. Its really subtle though.

rockonin wrote:Personally recently I have stopped using Inserts fx. I create a chain of Sends instead. This is mainly due to being limited to a 32 bit vista home premium pc and generally like working with vst's and rather than bouncing them down to audio. In general I tend to use the chain of following plugins:

Waves SSL Bus Compressor
Sausage Fattner
Camel Phat 3
Camel Crusher
Ferric TDS
Satson (ComputerMusic)
Reverberate (ComputerMusic)
Tal Dub 2 Delay
BiFilter2

I have also just started using the Waves Kramer Master Tape plug in for that nice saturated tape feel. Its really subtle though.

Cool idea, a bit much on the amount of plugins though maybe, seems like people are fighting the synth they make I like to group or bus channels which are sounds with a similar function in a track and then compress, EQ and sidechain them as one just to bring a bit of cohesion to the sounds.

JackSawyersMusic wrote:

rockonin wrote:Personally recently I have stopped using Inserts fx. I create a chain of Sends instead. This is mainly due to being limited to a 32 bit vista home premium pc and generally like working with vst's and rather than bouncing them down to audio. In general I tend to use the chain of following plugins:

Waves SSL Bus Compressor
Sausage Fattner
Camel Phat 3
Camel Crusher
Ferric TDS
Satson (ComputerMusic)
Reverberate (ComputerMusic)
Tal Dub 2 Delay
BiFilter2

I have also just started using the Waves Kramer Master Tape plug in for that nice saturated tape feel. Its really subtle though.

Cool idea, a bit much on the amount of plugins though maybe, seems like people are fighting the synth they make I like to group or bus channels which are sounds with a similar function in a track and then compress, EQ and sidechain them as one just to bring a bit of cohesion to the sounds.

Not really, that's the beauty of using sends, you can chose the amount of original signal get fed to the plugins.

rockonin wrote:

JackSawyersMusic wrote:

rockonin wrote:Personally recently I have stopped using Inserts fx. I create a chain of Sends instead. This is mainly due to being limited to a 32 bit vista home premium pc and generally like working with vst's and rather than bouncing them down to audio. In general I tend to use the chain of following plugins:

Waves SSL Bus Compressor
Sausage Fattner
Camel Phat 3
Camel Crusher
Ferric TDS
Satson (ComputerMusic)
Reverberate (ComputerMusic)
Tal Dub 2 Delay
BiFilter2

I have also just started using the Waves Kramer Master Tape plug in for that nice saturated tape feel. Its really subtle though.

Cool idea, a bit much on the amount of plugins though maybe, seems like people are fighting the synth they make I like to group or bus channels which are sounds with a similar function in a track and then compress, EQ and sidechain them as one just to bring a bit of cohesion to the sounds.

Not really, that's the beauty of using sends, you can chose the amount of original signal get fed to the plugins.

I know I use sends an awful lot but I meant that your effects chain is so long