Raspy sting/pad thing

[R3b_Official]

I love the intro to this song, and the build up is pretty intense imo. Any thoughts on this sort of string/pad at the very start? Sounds like its layered with something else for that click at the end.

Also on a side note on the song its self, anything about this air bass at 1:36? Im terrible at making this sort of bass. Making it flow like a kick and punch in certain sections.

Has some pretty interesting glitchy sound throughout the song as well.

Discuss and thanks

[WolfCryOfficial]

I love the intro to this song, and the build up is pretty intense imo. Any thoughts on this sort of string/pad at the very start? Sounds like its layered with something else for that click at the end.

Also on a side note on the song its self, anything about this air bass at 1:36? Im terrible at making this sort of bass. Making it flow like a kick and punch in certain sections.

Its sidechaining. The click usually comes from really bad sidechaining, but in this case it was meant to be there.
Bring your threshold way down on your compressor, and sharpen your knee (the point where the two lines meet. So change this

to this



Experiment around. Use a kick as your sidechain, to get the really slow chain, stretch out the kick from like 0.5 seconds to 2 seconds, then do it. It'll build up that way. Don't use volume envelopes, it gets messy.

Air bass, never heard that xD
Its a really big phat Saw wave. It has a super saw over it, extremely detuned but not really that audible, and tons of white noise synth on top. So just your standard electro bass, plus a really big chord, and white noise.

Making bass like this, sidechain. Thats it. SIDE CHAIN A LOT. Like, crazy amounts. Thats how you get big bass in this genre.

[R3b_Official]

Didnt know how to explain the bass gesh! But ill try the sidechaning thing tomorrow, i normally do this to my snares after reverb to get it hiss more and breath a bit. Thanks man

[GregoryTJ]

Been a while since I listened to this song, here is my attemp:

Soundcloud

Really pretty easy stuff, all done in sytrus, with some sidechain compression on a limiter on the growl.

As suggested above much of this sounds sidechained but I just mostly used volume and LP cutoff enevlopes to simulate that. Just cleaner and simpler that way.

Each sound used only one instance of Sytrus. Layering can be useful but I didn't bother in this case because of the simplicity of these sounds.

I just went the standard FM growl route for the bass, ratio of 1 triangle or parabol modulated by a formant at .25 or .5 and modulated by something like the first OP at .5 or 1. you just modulate the volume of mod/op 2/3 until it sounds right and sometimes throw a high pitch something or other modulating the main op as well. then reverb and sidechaining.

the pad was white noise modulating a triangle/saw with some clever volume automation and filtering.

Also the bass had a LP filter on it with very slight automation of the cut and res.

Stupid simple really.

[R3b_Official]

Been a while since I listened to this song, here is my attemp:

Soundcloud

Really pretty easy stuff, all done in sytrus, with some sidechain compression on a limiter on the growl.

As suggested above much of this sounds sidechained but I just mostly used volume and LP cutoff enevlopes to simulate that. Just cleaner and simpler that way.

Each sound used only one instance of Sytrus. Layering can be useful but I didn't bother in this case because of the simplicity of these sounds.

I just went the standard FM growl route for the bass, ratio of 1 triangle or parabol modulated by a formant at .25 or .5 and modulated by something like the first OP at .5 or 1. you just modulate the volume of mod/op 2/3 until it sounds right and sometimes throw a high pitch something or other modulating the main op as well. then reverb and sidechaining.

the pad was white noise modulating a triangle/saw with some clever volume automation and filtering.

Also the bass had a LP filter on it with very slight automation of the cut and res.

Stupid simple really.

Right on the money! You sir are probably by far the best at recreating sounds. See what i would have done was mess around with a massive patch for 3 hours, gave up. Make something simple with two saws, layer with white noises and useless plugin chain.

Thanks man, will try this now and post my results. Ill also try an attempt to recreate the song. I have most of the midi and the lead down.