How To Make This Sound - January 2012

[DubMikey]

So, the last two days I've simply fallen in love with this song. Thing is, I am pretty bad at recognizing what instruments are being played. Could someone tell me?

[Fauster]

I've been trying to figure out this high-pitched sound at :44 seconds into this song. It's layered over a kick and I can't seem to be able to get it right.

Anybody have any idea?

[Ohmicid]

Here's the example at : 1:45-1:47; 1:58-1:59

Also, I was wondering, how are the "Yoi" and talking basses from this song made? Is it a forman filter or a scream4 digital?

[Coolschmid]

So, the last two days I've simply fallen in love with this song. Thing is, I am pretty bad at recognizing what instruments are being played. Could someone tell me?

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Aside from the drums, there is either an upright or electric bass being played, a pretty bright piano, and then some brass (either a few trumpets or a few trombones or both)

The piano could also be a guitar.

[decooljb]

Go to 1:22. I'm trying to recreate the bass wobble in massive. It sounds like the distortion and downsampling is mapped onto an oscillator, but no matter what I change, I just can't get my bass synth to sound like this.

[Aufnahmewindwuschel]

Go to 1:22. I'm trying to recreate the bass wobble in massive. It sounds like the distortion and downsampling is mapped onto an oscillator, but no matter what I change, I just can't get my bass synth to sound like this.

ok for me it sounds like a split bass with one really low end based pretty much mono and the other on the outside with some really tight crispy distortion maybe dimension expander with a tube or sth similar cant tell the waveform either but it sounds pretty simple when the actual triblet hits maybe a sqaure or a saw but the build into might be something else
i think the secret is in the way the sub and the synth play together you dont really hear a transition so either he splitteted the freq or he glued them together somehow
pretty sure its a specific distortion effect too with some really sublime reverb

[decooljb]

ok for me it sounds like a split bass with one really low end based pretty much mono and the other on the outside with some really tight crispy distortion maybe dimension expander with a tube or sth similar cant tell the waveform either but it sounds pretty simple when the actual triblet hits maybe a sqaure or a saw but the build into might be something else
i think the secret is in the way the sub and the synth play together you dont really hear a transition so either he splitteted the freq or he glued them together somehow
pretty sure its a specific distortion effect too with some really sublime reverb

So a low-end bass and a distorted bass glued together or something?

If you needed it, here's the waveform:

Sorry that some parts of it appear destroyed, when I tried to resize it I prevented anti-aliasing, so that was the result. You could still figure it out, right?

[Aufnahmewindwuschel]

So a low-end bass and a distorted bass glued together or something?

If you needed it, here's the waveform:
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haha sorry waveforms dont help me usually but i can see that its brickwalled at some spots if 0 is the outside of this pic at second listening i can say there is some sidechaining going on betwenn bass and bassdrum
maybe even snare?! definitly add some white nosie on your drums that can work pushing the feel of the bass yeah and compress your midrange hard so it hits all the time
i think it might be a square lfo with a triblet and a distortion on top some compression widening and then maybe a really dry reverb

[_Vermin]

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Any way that I can replicate the main sounds of girl unit's tracks (synths) and the sort of "twinkle harp" in the Flosstradamus track?

[narrator]

I would love to know more about making the type of sound Dubsidia use as their kinda signature midrange.
It sounds very possible to do on Massive

It's like something 16bit would have used too.

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[Marzz]

How does James Blake get the underlying wobble in his track to be so damn heavy? It's the go to song for when I need to shake the foundations of my house. I know there are plenty of songs with heavy basslines, ('Anti-War Dub' and 'The Judgement' off the top of my head), but they don't seem to come close to the Limit To Your Love bassline. Any ideas on how he does it?

Sub bass with an LFO?

[Hircine]

How does James Blake get the underlying wobble in his track to be so damn heavy? It's the go to song for when I need to shake the foundations of my house. I know there are plenty of songs with heavy basslines, ('Anti-War Dub' and 'The Judgement' off the top of my head), but they don't seem to come close to the Limit To Your Love bassline. Any ideas on how he does it?

Sub bass with an LFO?

pick a nice and heavy sub note, write a bassline, slightly distort it, put a lp filter on it, raise the resonance and layer with the, send to a dark plate-ish reverb, layer it with the original signal and parallel compress it all together. Just an idea.

[tigsheb22]

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Trying to recreate the main wobble, I'm so desperate, someone lend me a hand

[Reversed]

http://youtu.be/mWuVgvjgujU?t=57s

Okay i seriously have been trying to synthesize this kind of bass for months. A lot of producers in the 100bpm / glitchhop genre use it, but i just can't figure out how it works. It seems to be based on a square from the sound of it. But i've tried pretty much everything i can think of. modulated sine-shaper, bitcrusher, all kinds of filters bandpass band reject, etc. the whole deal. Tried different synths but i can't figure it out.

[Khamsin]

Yoyo! i seriously need to know this! ill do my best to help anyone else out!



The intro synth used in alot of grime tunes (up to like 11 secs), pretty classic sound i know but ive never been able to get it, im guessing its a classic instrument of some sort with some effects?

Any hints would be great! Cheers guys

[Tenebriated]

Lead synth in "Mercy" anyone?

[Perej]

Lead synth in "Mercy" anyone?

Would absolutely love to know this myself.

In a similar vein:-



Joy O's synths that slowly build up in the background like in the track above. It's such a warm nice sound but I don't know how to replicate. Cutoffs opening very slowly I can do but not the core sound itself.

But yeh also Tenebriated - have you got Kontakt? If you put samples in there and run it through a massive fx chain you can get some seriously weird noises. You may get somewhere close with a bit of experimentation.

[Tenebriated]

Sounds like I need to steal myself Kontakt and have a fuck about

[Marzz]

Sounds like I need to steal myself Kontakt and have a fuck about

Stealing? Why not demo it and then record it through your DAW?

[Frunk]

so ive been trying to make this really heavy sound for like a month and i just cant figure it out, it plays thru this whole song.. heavy as fuck

if anyone could give me some tips for NI massive thatd be awesome

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