Fitting different sounds together
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2014 1:09 am
I've wondered this for a very long time now.
How does one fit different sounds together as in a typical dubstep/brostep drop. What are the reasons that the professionals seem to make all the sounds flow together, while my sounds, seem like they were never supposed to be fitted in the same drop to begin with?
Does it come down to compression, eq, and distortion in a bus? Is it just that my arrangement sucks? Or is it something else i am missing completely?
The way i have usually made sounds fit together is to make a sound in Massive (growl, scream whatever) And then try to make a different sound containing the SAME three oscillators and oscillator settings but different filters ect, but obviously this really limits my ability to make a sound that is considerably different from the original, but still fit together reasonably well.
Its weird to me, you can have a nice sounding scream bass, that works well with only one oscillator. And then you have another growl bass, which has maybe three oscillators, but when you fit them together it just sounds wrong, you know.
This just frustrates me even more when this track (love the track btw) is basicly a mashup of different drops, with many many different sounds, but somehow it flows very nicely. Even if these songs where not designed to fit together in the first place. What is this magic?
How do you guys deal with this problem? Do you always follow the same pattern of synthesis, so that your results will fit each other by default (same oscillators/filters/processing)? Resampling maybe?
This has been one of the reasons why i think its harder to create a dubstep drop than an entire DnB track. My ableton projects has basicly become an overcrowded mess of massive presets that sound decent on their own, but not together
I was hoping we could get a discussion going and maybe share some ideas, because i really don't know much, i just want to understand the science behind this. This thread would be great for me and maybe some newbies such as myself
(i could just maybe be dumb, who knows 
)
How does one fit different sounds together as in a typical dubstep/brostep drop. What are the reasons that the professionals seem to make all the sounds flow together, while my sounds, seem like they were never supposed to be fitted in the same drop to begin with?
Does it come down to compression, eq, and distortion in a bus? Is it just that my arrangement sucks? Or is it something else i am missing completely?
The way i have usually made sounds fit together is to make a sound in Massive (growl, scream whatever) And then try to make a different sound containing the SAME three oscillators and oscillator settings but different filters ect, but obviously this really limits my ability to make a sound that is considerably different from the original, but still fit together reasonably well.
Its weird to me, you can have a nice sounding scream bass, that works well with only one oscillator. And then you have another growl bass, which has maybe three oscillators, but when you fit them together it just sounds wrong, you know.
This just frustrates me even more when this track (love the track btw) is basicly a mashup of different drops, with many many different sounds, but somehow it flows very nicely. Even if these songs where not designed to fit together in the first place. What is this magic?
How do you guys deal with this problem? Do you always follow the same pattern of synthesis, so that your results will fit each other by default (same oscillators/filters/processing)? Resampling maybe?
This has been one of the reasons why i think its harder to create a dubstep drop than an entire DnB track. My ableton projects has basicly become an overcrowded mess of massive presets that sound decent on their own, but not together
I was hoping we could get a discussion going and maybe share some ideas, because i really don't know much, i just want to understand the science behind this. This thread would be great for me and maybe some newbies such as myself
(i could just maybe be dumb, who knows )