The 'help me make this sound!' thread

xzazael · Post by **xzazael** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 5:37 am

Alright, so I know that this isn't dubstep in the slightest sense, but I'm still pretty intrigued by this synth sound.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF1rD0uB3S4

At about 1:21, 1:44, etc.

To me it sounds like a combination of squares with some chorus and slight distortion thrown on, but I really don't know.

I like that full sound that it produces though.

So, yea.

critical sound system · Post by **critical sound system** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 9:39 am

hey dudes

i must know how the guy manage to do those propa sounds

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHt05rfI ... re=related

the one that drop at 30 seconds
and also at 1min35sec is mental

safe safe brov!

baro · Post by **baro** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 9:12 pm

Thanks for making this thread Futures.

There is a bass sound that I heard that I have been wondering about.

Unfortunately, I cannot find the bassline I am wondering about outside the mix I found it in. I hope someone is willing to download it to help me out. It is a good mix.

Link to the mix:

http://www.surfacetensionrecs.com/Promo ... oMix08.mp3

The sound I am wondering about is the the ringing faux(?) bass that comes in around 14:50, peeking in and out around the sub-bassline.

I will not rest until I have mastered this sound! I know the sound I am after is not a real bass line, but I was blown away at the way it was used in this particular case. Your guys' help is greatly appreciated.

futures_untold · Post by **futures_untold** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 9:33 pm

I'll try to listen to the last three links over the weekend. Got to much work on tomoorow to be able to do anything....

critical sound system · Post by **critical sound system** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 10:06 pm

futures_untold wrote:I'll try to listen to the last three links over the weekend. Got to much work on tomoorow to be able to do anything....

please dont

i love stupid jokes

futures_untold · Post by **futures_untold** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 10:11 pm

critical sound system wrote:
futures_untold wrote:I'll try to listen to the last three links over the weekend. Got to much work on tomoorow to be able to do anything....
please dont
i love stupid jokes

I don't get it???

glottis5 · Post by **glottis5** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 10:52 pm

How do you get that Eurobeat lead synth sound? Should be simple, but every time I try it sounds really thin and flat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kYXaan7jh4#t=0m25s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9ALaS8lHGM#t=0m16s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDJDUe7wrgU#t=0m38s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb_NxWH2COo#t=0m21s

Don't make fun

5-0-what · Post by **5-0-what** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 6:01 am

futures_untold wrote:
Sticky Feet wrote:HO DO I MAK DIS SOUND?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUMJMyuxq0w
I LFO CUTOFF BUT..
This tutorial will help you. ---> http://dubstepforum.com/viewtopic.php?t ... highlight=

Also essential reading is this thread. ---> http://dubstepforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=45366&start=0

This sound is officially outlawed by Section 1 of the United Nations Convention on Shit Bass Sounds!

I refuse to answer this one as it is against my religious beliefs.

lmfao

critical sound system · Post by **critical sound system** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 9:35 am

futures_untold wrote:
critical sound system wrote:
futures_untold wrote:I'll try to listen to the last three links over the weekend. Got to much work on tomoorow to be able to do anything....
please dont
i love stupid jokes
I don't get it???

pisstake

deadly_habit · Post by **deadly_habit** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 10:04 am

Xzazael wrote:Alright, so I know that this isn't dubstep in the slightest sense, but I'm still pretty intrigued by this synth sound.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF1rD0uB3S4

At about 1:21, 1:44, etc.

To me it sounds like a combination of squares with some chorus and slight distortion thrown on, but I really don't know.

I like that full sound that it produces though.

So, yea.

you talking about the lfo'd bass patch?

deadly_habit · Post by **deadly_habit** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 10:06 am

futures_untold wrote:
Lowpass wrote:lol is this so you can punish the fans of midrange bass without having to click into seperate threads?

Education is inspiration.

The faster people learn to program their own sounds, the sooner the Bastard Electro sound will disappear!!!

SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT MIDRANGE AND BRUTAL ELECTRO ALREADY!
we get it you don't like it, christ your almost as bad as the clownstep/skullstep crew on doa

rectaldubz · Post by **rectaldubz** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 6:30 pm

http://www.dubstepforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=91811
i posted this up for anyone that wants to fuck about with, it's called melodic engine.

futures_untold · Post by **futures_untold** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 7:20 pm

glottis5 wrote:How do you get that Eurobeat lead synth sound? Should be simple, but every time I try it sounds really thin and flat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kYXaan7jh4#t=0m25s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9ALaS8lHGM#t=0m16s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDJDUe7wrgU#t=0m38s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb_NxWH2COo#t=0m21s

Don't make fun

Euro leads utilise 'superwaves', which are essentially loads of saw waves slightly detuned from one another.

You'll need a synth with at least six oscillators, or 3 synths with two oscillators each stacked together.

Set the oscillator shape to sawtooth on all the oscillators. Detune the oscillators by the following amount of cents. (Each octave is divided into 12 semitones, each semi tone is divided into 100 cents).

Osc 1 - nothing
Osc 2 - 2 cents
Osc 3 - 4 cents
Osc 4 - 8 cents
Osc 5 - 16 cents
Osc 6 - 32 cents

A great trick for this kind of sound is to add a tempo synched delay unit as an insert, with the delay time set to 1. set the dry/wet very low, so the echo is only just audible.

you may also wish to add light amounts of chorus or reverb, possibly as send effects.

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If the above method fails you, try using pulse width modulation on sawtooth waves (although not all synths support this). this will give you the fatter wider sound your after.

futures_untold · Post by **futures_untold** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 7:21 pm

critical sound system wrote:hey dudes
i must know how the guy manage to do those propa sounds

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHt05rfI ... re=related

the one that drop at 30 seconds
and also at 1min35sec is mental

safe safe brov!

Ask Deadly Habit, he's pretty good at this style

deadly_habit · Post by **deadly_habit** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 7:37 pm

futures_untold wrote:
critical sound system wrote:hey dudes
i must know how the guy manage to do those propa sounds

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHt05rfI ... re=related

the one that drop at 30 seconds
and also at 1min35sec is mental

safe safe brov!
Ask Deadly Habit, he's pretty good at this style

take a look at custom waveforms or reshaping things like sawtooths/squares so they have more digital or fm-esque sound
layer up your oscs semitone or octaves apart to thicken it up
fine tuning will give it some beating sound
also sounds like there is a phaser on it to add some movement
then default modulate a low pass filter over the top to taste via lfo or hand drawn or whatever you want

futures_untold · Post by **futures_untold** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 8:48 pm

Baro wrote:The sound I am wondering about is the the ringing faux(?) bass that comes in around 14:50, peeking in and out around the sub-bassline.

Link to the mix:

http://www.surfacetensionrecs.com/Promo ... oMix08.mp3

Any chance of chopping up about a minutes worth of the part your on about and reuploading to a fileshare host as a smaller file?

I'm having difficulty streaming & downloading this mix....

Thanks

karmacazee · Post by **karmacazee** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 1:31 am

futures_untold wrote:
Karmacazee wrote:Yaaaaaay @ this thread!

Right, one sound I would love to achieve is that awesome crash cymbal sound I've been hearing lately. It sounds like many crash cymbals pulling and pushing against each other, and they sound very smooth, almost as if they all have separate sidechain compression acting upon them.

Trying to think of examples....

the cymbals in the (beautiful) break at the end of 'Kids with guns', Gorillaz.

and a better example here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp7YqM51hZc about 1:49 in.

....err... ngaargh, can't think of any other flippin' examples of it right now, there's oe tune that does it really well and I can't remember it ... Bah!
There are two parts to this effect. The first part involves creating the 'second' 'echoed' version of the sound. The second part is to achieve that lovely 'diffused' sound.

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For step one, simply create a delay unit as a send effect. Set the dry/wet to 100% wet so that you get a full volume duplicate of the original cymbal sound. You will need to set the delay time according to your song tempo and general tastes.

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The next step is to achieve the 'diffused' sound. Pass the delay through a reverb so you can achieve that 'spread' sound on the delayed version of the cymbal. I'd set the dry/wet on the reverb fairly low, but experiment to find that sweet spot.

Program your delay with a large reverb size, high amount of diffusion and very short decay time. You may want some damping on this, so use a lowpass filter (or the reverb units damping controls) to filter out some of the highest frequencies from the reverb sound.

If your reverb has a 'reverse' algorthm, use it. I'd say that this sound relies heavily on a reversed copy of the original cymbal creating that 'sucking up'/'swooshing out' sound.

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Other tips to try out:

Pass you cymbals through an overall reverb, and maybe some light chorussing effect too.

Make a copy of your cymbal sample and reverse it in an audio editor. Program it so the end of the reversed sample falls at the same time as the start of the normal sample.

Mess with the velocity of your reversed sample.

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Hiope that helps!

Tried it, and after a bunch of (extremely fun!!!) fiddling I got it sounding LUSH.

Spank you Futures. Spank you very much.

legend4ry · Post by **legend4ry** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 1:57 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPbKx3ginSc

2:53 - the guitary synth

4:09 - the DUN DUN DUN

If you don't know about that soundtrack - get to know!

karmacazee · Post by **karmacazee** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 3:14 am

Legendary wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPbKx3ginSc

2:53 - the guitary synth

4:09 - the DUN DUN DUN

If you don't know about that soundtrack - get to know!

First time I listened to this in it's entirety I was tripping BALLS.

@2:53 = an actual guitar (most probably some kind of 80's metal guitar) with shitloads of distortion and compression with some gentle chorus. Double tracked.

4:09 That's a harpsichord isn't it? Either that, or it's an acoustic 12 string playing fifths with some processing. And a harpsichord.

I believe keytars may be involved also.

xzazael · Post by **xzazael** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 3:33 am

Deadly Habit wrote:
Xzazael wrote:Alright, so I know that this isn't dubstep in the slightest sense, but I'm still pretty intrigued by this synth sound.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF1rD0uB3S4

At about 1:21, 1:44, etc.

To me it sounds like a combination of squares with some chorus and slight distortion thrown on, but I really don't know.

I like that full sound that it produces though.

So, yea.
you talking about the lfo'd bass patch?

Yessir I am

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