How To Make This Sound - January 2013

[inDistinkt]

Personally, I think that although the saturation may help bring a little life to your track, it's best to leave mastering to the professional engineers. Using an ITB saturation plug on the master probably isn't the best idea. Unless you just want the song to sound a little more "full" so you can play it out to your friends or whatever.

Either way, if you want the saturated bass, I'd just use the plug-in on the bass' channel, plus maybe a little on the kick and other drums depending on what sound exactly you're going for.

[blinx]

lol wrong forum, but w/e i gave it a listen cause i was bored.

You def. need a sub bass under the midrange wobbles. If you are using a sine wave that follows the notes of the midrange wobbles i dont see how you are getting muddyness? but if you are not eqing out the low end of that kick drum i could understnad how that kick and some sub bass would sound like garbage depening on what note is being played.

[KoastEDM]

lol wrong forum, but w/e i gave it a listen cause i was bored.

You def. need a sub bass under the midrange wobbles. If you are using a sine wave that follows the notes of the midrange wobbles i dont see how you are getting muddyness? but if you are not eqing out the low end of that kick drum i could understnad how that kick and some sub bass would sound like garbage depening on what note is being played.

Yeah, I just realized that the kick was a main reason for the muddyness, thank you.

[rockonin]

Yeah does sound quiet empty. Apart from adding a sub also try adding some white noise in the background, but at a very low volume. Maybe add a few pads in background as well. Also try and work on the arrangement, it all sounds the same.

[BLASKO]

alright guys,
how do i even start with this bass att 00:29

the talky / wet sounding stuff

any inpute would be great!!!!!!!!!

[hhans]

Probably a reese processed similarly to a lot of modern growls. Read through these threads and you'll be on the right track:

Reese Bass Thread:
http://www.dubstepforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=224748

The Official Growl Bass Thread:
http://www.dubstepforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=250521

[halifaxer12]

I just don't understand how to make the drum kicks or snares on a buildup go to 1/16? It's when the kicks sound like they're going rapid fire. I can do this in Traktor Pro when I loop to 1/8 or 1/16 and it sounds like that. I'm sorry it's just hard for me to put it in the right words or terminology, so I sound amateurish. It's usually right before the drop happens and the kicks/snares are going so fast that it sounds like a chain gun on a heli almost....I never figured out how to do it in Pro Tools if there's a way to do it in a DAW. Once again I apologize if it my question isn't coming out right. Hope someone can help me out.

[rockonin]

Ho do you setup your drums? Samples in the arrangement view or do you use a drum vst/drumrack with a sequencer?

[halifaxer12]

I create the kick, snare, and percussion tracks in Pro tools and they're all Reason rewired. So basically I have the drums coming in from Reason 6 and record the regions in Pro Tools. And I edit the notes in the region or "Midi Editor".

[FAARE FACED]

Watch out for the lengh/release of your sample. It may be longer than the interval between 2 drum hits, hence causing the tail of a kick to overlap with the following one, giving you the impression it's not the way it should.
And if 16ths of a kick sounds too aggressive, maybe slow down the attack to avoid that "rapid fire".

[rockonin]

Heres a quick look at using different quantize grids to getting faster kicks. You can apply the same method to snares. Hope this helps. I usually use Groove Agent One and Beat Designer in Cubase 5. I did this screenshot on my laptop.

[halifaxer12]

Rockonin, the screenshot looks very similar to the midi editor I'm using in Pro Tools. So your just overlapping the notes or quantizing them to create the rapid fire effect? Because even if I quantize 1/64 the notes are still too far apart. I have to manually drag each one closer together... And thanks Faare I'm staying aware of that.

[halifaxer12]

Yea I think I figured it out. I dragged each sample as close as I could and then quantized them to 1/64. Thanks for the help

[rockonin]

In Cubase i just draw one note then highlight it then press Alt and drag my mouse and then it automatically draws them side by side not sure if it the same in Protools. Hope it helped.

[Pablomax]

I'm trying to find the way to make this classic synth used in a lot of earlier dubstep and grime productions like:



(the synth wich is running since the song starts)




can anyone help me?

[syrup]

i think the first one are just overdriven 808 kicks

[Eat Bass]

i think the first one are just overdriven 808 kicks

i bet looping an 808, slapping it in a sampler and overdriving and effecting to taste would make quite the fat bass.

is the first song using a looped 808 or just 808's with a long decay as the bass? i cant listen atm.

[hasezwei]

basic gime ingredients:
- overdriven 808
- detuned squares for dat eski synth
- the cheapest string/horn sampler patch you can find on your pc

[ArrenMog]

The sound is at 0:31,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZw__jBNHbY

Been trying to make this sound for a while now and mine always end up sounding too clean and not organic enough. Did consider it may be a sample but i'm unsure, wondered how you guys thought it might be made?

Cheers!

[Mammoth]

Pretty common sample