Okay, so I'm doing this kind of "big synth" style drop for once and I like what I have so far except that I want to add more thickness to the lower part of my synth. Here's what I have:
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as most of you probably already know the key to big synth/seven lions w.e styled drops are layering the synths. I like what I have for the chords' highs and mids but the lower end synth I wanna make it more aggressive and thick. any ideas?
Right now it's a triple saw a lot of voices and very small amount of detune running through a double notch filter thats being automated by a LFO very slightly to give it some movement. (pretty simple, nothing spectacular)
For FX I have trash for distortion, camelphat, little bit of sausage fattener, then fabfilter saturn to help it sound a little less digital/more analog warmness. And then of course the rudimentary eqing of bad frequencies and compression
It's hard to describe how I want the low end to sound but I want it to kind of stick out a bit and not just thicken up the chords.
Need help fattening up this bass synth
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Need help fattening up this bass synth
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Kit Fysto wrote:How many different words can you place before the word "step" and have that be a genre that people take seriously. Fuck it, I'm starting Christstep, all Christian, all the time.
Re: Need help fattening up this bass synth
To be honest, I'd smash the supersaws you have now into a limiter or something, if you want that 'big synth'. Then I'd layer a distorted saw wave underneath it, maybe some orchestral layer aswell to make it sound really full and warm. Did it in this tune:
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It's old though, but decent enough example
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It's old though, but decent enough example
aka blinkesko
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Jesus Loves Electro - Burning Love (Augment remix)
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Jesus Loves Electro - Burning Love (Augment remix)
Spotify: http://spoti.fi/1m5GUjL
iTunes: http://bit.ly/1iHWose
Re: Need help fattening up this bass synth
In terms of thickening everything you need more layers in the chords as blinkesko said, the highs seem lacking and maybe add more width. I'd then layer a distorted low passed saw and a thick sub under them, both of these set to mono.
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Re: Need help fattening up this bass synth
thanks guys! I'm gonna do a combination of both of what you posted
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Kit Fysto wrote:How many different words can you place before the word "step" and have that be a genre that people take seriously. Fuck it, I'm starting Christstep, all Christian, all the time.
Re: Need help fattening up this bass synth
I would layer it with a touch of white noise, play more (higher) notes in the chord, and then throw a dimension expander on it... the one from here is good: http://www.xferrecords.com/freeware/
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