How do you go about doing the intro?

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How do you go about doing the intro?

Post by JamesHanvey » Thu Oct 02, 2014 7:36 am

I always generally make the chorus of a track and after that I like to work backwards but I always struggle getting the intro I literally spend days and days listening back at the chourus just trying to come up with something and when something dors hit me, it sounds shit the next day so I delete it. What is it you do?

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Re: How do you go about doing the intro?

Post by wub » Thu Oct 02, 2014 7:47 am

things to try for intros;
  • Take a sample, stretch it out by 400%, add some reverb and filtering, insert as an intro
  • Have an echoey version of your lead synth pattern that floats about for a minute, before dropping out as the main drum kicks in
  • If your tune has a vocal, then take a dry version of the vocal sample, add some reverse reverb to it with a LONG tail (take sample > reverse it > add reverb > bounce > then reverse back to normal) to insert as an intro. The reverse reverb tail at the start of the vocal will sound like it's sucking itself in before it hits (see Prodigy - Firestarter for an example of how this works on vocals)
  • Add some pads with a basic hat pattern running under them, gradually rising in tone.
  • Introduce your main kick pattern from the get go, but with some processing on the drum so that it is filtered, with the filter gradually rising as the tune introduces itself, then when it properly drops have the filter off the drum altogether so it hits with more prescence
  • Add a long white noise sweep with some filtering/delay that gradually builds to a crescendo, before dropping out with heavy reverb as the drums kick in
  • Take an 8 bar drum loop from that middle of the tune, run it through dBGlitch a half dozen times on random settings, and bounce out. Drop all the outputted glitch versions into your audio editor, cut the shit out of them then stitch them back together. Add liberal filtering/EQ to remove any rogue frequencies, insert the audio file as your intro.
  • Sample Predator 2.

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Re: How do you go about doing the intro?

Post by Njamimars » Thu Oct 02, 2014 10:42 am

I mostly use things of the main beat and minimalist them using less bass/reverb and less FX in particular.

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I use a melody, I cut out a couple notes.

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Re: How do you go about doing the intro?

Post by GregLongman » Thu Oct 02, 2014 12:06 pm

Yo Wub, loving those ideas man! :Q:

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Re: How do you go about doing the intro?

Post by JamesHanvey » Thu Oct 02, 2014 1:03 pm

Cheers wub, great ideas! :h:

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Re: How do you go about doing the intro?

Post by Crimsonghost » Thu Oct 02, 2014 5:29 pm

wub wrote: [*]Sample Predator 2.[/list]
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