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One Zero Three
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Making sounds BIGGER?

Post by One Zero Three » Fri Jun 08, 2012 3:03 am

Hi everyone,

Ive always wanted to have my sounds sound "bigger" but im never that successful. Take this song for example:
http://soundcloud.com/onezerothree/aura-original-mix
The bass during the drop, any of the 4, how could i go about making them sound bigger and fuller? I use reason 4 to make all my sounds.

Thanks in advanced! Any help would be appreciated.
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Re: Making sounds BIGGER?

Post by ehbes » Fri Jun 08, 2012 3:14 am

Chorus, flange, unison, eq and a sub....
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Re: Making sounds BIGGER?

Post by Hircine » Fri Jun 08, 2012 3:27 am

Search the forums for threads about eqing, compressing, resampling and splitting frequencies.
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Re: Making sounds BIGGER?

Post by 123kidd » Fri Jun 08, 2012 5:18 am

dimension expander in massive got you covered :W:
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Re: Making sounds BIGGER?

Post by wub » Fri Jun 08, 2012 6:13 am

One Zero Three wrote:I use reason 4 to make all my sounds.
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Re: Making sounds BIGGER?

Post by Cubicle » Fri Jun 08, 2012 7:26 am

Layering, compression and stereo imaging in Reason.
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Re: Making sounds BIGGER?

Post by MaZa1 » Fri Jun 08, 2012 9:54 am

Make 2 or 3 copies of the synth/bass and pan one slightly to left, one slightly to right and 1 in the middle.
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Re: Making sounds BIGGER?

Post by AxeD » Fri Jun 08, 2012 10:23 am

More than half of the effects used to do this are based on delays.
Just takes some tweaking to get the right delay time, try it in ms too.
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Re: Making sounds BIGGER?

Post by sunny_b_uk » Fri Jun 08, 2012 10:57 am

mid/side processing. also yeah i agree with delays & sometimes super tight delays can help too :mrgreen:
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Re: Making sounds BIGGER?

Post by bassbum » Fri Jun 08, 2012 12:06 pm

Some reverb and chorus would be good.
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Re: Making sounds BIGGER?

Post by Smiles » Fri Jun 08, 2012 3:46 pm

stereo widener and layering.
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Re: Making sounds BIGGER?

Post by Burgeamon » Fri Jun 08, 2012 3:52 pm

Layer your sounds to hit a wide range of frequencies and use flange / chorus / stereoimaging for width up top.
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Re: Making sounds BIGGER?

Post by zerbaman » Fri Jun 08, 2012 3:58 pm

Get some stereo imaging on it. Look up the effects from mda, they have a great line of software imo
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Re: Making sounds BIGGER?

Post by JTreeZY » Fri Jun 08, 2012 9:12 pm

Reason users! Do you guys combine synth sounds with the spider audio? I just started doing this but im not sure if it's really doing anything
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Re: Making sounds BIGGER?

Post by ehbes » Fri Jun 08, 2012 9:18 pm

No the only time I use a spider is when either in freq splitting or drum bussing other than that, no
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Re: Making sounds BIGGER?

Post by JTreeZY » Fri Jun 08, 2012 9:19 pm

Frequency Splitting? can you elaborate on that?
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Re: Making sounds BIGGER?

Post by ehbes » Fri Jun 08, 2012 9:23 pm

You take a sound and split it into different output each with a different band of frequencies, adthen you process each band separately and then sum them back together.
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Re: Making sounds BIGGER?

Post by One Zero Three » Fri Jun 08, 2012 9:27 pm

ehbrums1 wrote:You take a sound and split it into different output each with a different band of frequencies, adthen you process each band separately and then sum them back together.
Ive never thought about doing this! Im deffinatly going to try it out. thanks everyone. keep the ideas coming!!
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Re: Making sounds BIGGER?

Post by ehbes » Fri Jun 08, 2012 9:28 pm

One Zero Three wrote:
ehbrums1 wrote:You take a sound and split it into different output each with a different band of frequencies, adthen you process each band separately and then sum them back together.
Ive never thought about doing this! Im deffinatly going to try it out. thanks everyone. keep the ideas coming!!
I'll send over a combi patch if I get around to it
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Re: Making sounds BIGGER?

Post by One Zero Three » Fri Jun 08, 2012 9:37 pm

ehbrums1 wrote:
One Zero Three wrote:
ehbrums1 wrote:You take a sound and split it into different output each with a different band of frequencies, adthen you process each band separately and then sum them back together.
Ive never thought about doing this! Im deffinatly going to try it out. thanks everyone. keep the ideas coming!!
I'll send over a combi patch if I get around to it
that would be awesome!
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