I know 0% about wobbles and don't know where to start.

chrissmith92 · Post by **chrissmith92** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 10:02 pm

Dupstep isn't usually my thing as i'm a guitar player but i've been gradually getting into it more and more and I simply find it amazing.

I've read up about it, listened to some tunes and just started on my own mix of a Nine inch nails song as a learning/practise thing but I can't seem to get that wobble sound?

I've tried using tremolo and phaser but it just sounds pathetic! I'm using Logic 8 and i've got a m-audio midi keyboard? Can anyone help?

trich · Post by **trich** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 10:07 pm

^

Word.

chrissmith92 · Post by **chrissmith92** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 10:11 pm

You guys are really helpfull arn't u!

setspeed · Post by **setspeed** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 10:19 pm

assign the filter cutoff to an LFO on a synth. the ES1 is a good place to start because it's easy to use.

but try to remember to use the search function on here in future! people do get tired of answering the same questions all the time...

xzazael · Post by **xzazael** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 10:22 pm

Chrissmith92 wrote:You guys are really helpfull arn't u!

We're so helpful we've put up stickies to answer your question

chrissmith92 · Post by **chrissmith92** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 10:23 pm

Sound m8.

Sory bout that. I literally only just found this website like 10 mins ago so I wasn't too sure how things worked.

Cheers, I'll give that a go in abit

xzazael · Post by **xzazael** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 10:27 pm

It's cool dude, just make sure next time you use the stickies/search button

And feel very lucky that the alpaca death squad hasn't come in yet

contakt321 · Post by **contakt321** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 10:27 pm

Yeah mate, it's a bit of a sore subject because it's been asked and answered about 7 million times.

That's a good thing for you though b/c there is really a lot of info on the site. Check the stickies and do a search for wobble, you should be able to find anything that you need.

Welcome to DSF and watch out for the Alpacas

chrissmith92 · Post by **chrissmith92** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 10:29 pm

I dare ask what the alpacas death squad is????

DZA · Post by **DZA** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 10:33 pm

xzazael · Post by **xzazael** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 10:34 pm

The_Dza88 wrote:

I saw your name lurking in the online members list and figured it was only a matter of time

DZA · Post by **DZA** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 10:37 pm

Xzazael wrote:
The_Dza88 wrote:
I saw your name lurking in the online members list and figured it was only a matter of time

o and IN

FSTZ1 · Post by **FSTZ1** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 10:42 pm

WE ARE HERE

osky · Post by **osky** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 10:44 pm

Chrissmith92 wrote:I dare ask what the alpacas death squad is????

u have no idea what you have just done

chrissmith92 · Post by **chrissmith92** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 10:45 pm

I know m8. I havn't got a fucking clue

FSTZ1 · Post by **FSTZ1** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 10:46 pm

FSTZ1 · Post by **FSTZ1** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 10:46 pm

jsilver · Post by **jsilver** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 10:51 pm

you want the oscillators in the synth to generate bass tones for one, so you want to set your root key up c7 or c8 and play c5 until your tone hits in that bass range

a little coarse and/or fine detune in the oscillators helps for fatter sound, use your knowledge of scales to pick semitones that are in tune (major or minor) to avoid dissonance

then you want to use a low pass filter to cut the high end, giving yourself some resonance (volume of harmonics around the cutoff) for some added boom

then you want to apply an LFO to the filter cutoff, a lot of VA synths have this hardwired, you have to route it on the mod matrix in heavier synths like albino

the 'speed' parameter is going to be how fast your wobble moves up and down the bass frequency zone

the "amount" parameter is how much modulation you want the LFO to have on the modulation parameter, can be +/- because LFOs are bipolar (range from -1 to 1)

volume envelope, filter envelope, etc to taste, monophonic mode and portamento can sound good if playing keyboard, maybe assign a knob to cutoff, reso, speed, amt, porta and record your modulations!

at this point you can go ahead and throw FX on, i find chorus is good to fatten it up stereowise, various freeware distortion can be recommended, there's a huge distortion section on gersic.com, i recommend compression also to make it stand out in the mix

hope this helps, if you have questions whatsoever you can hit me up on AIM at johnnysilv and id be glad to help

tripwire22 · Post by **tripwire22** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 11:05 pm

let me try helping

lfo>cutoff i think thats how ya do it. But for real just check the production Bible thats why we have one. i

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