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The distinctive sound of Tomba

Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 12:02 am
by marshy


Really interested in how he creates some of those sounds, especially the first after the drop. Obvious normal vowel filtering etc, but what makes it so 'transparent'? I can't think of any other word to describe it. I can only seem to get as far as selective EQing to thin the sound out, then excessive reverb and delay.

It's not even something i'd particuarly want to use in my own productions, but still confuses the fuck out of me. Oh and save the complaining for another thread about Borgore or someone please!

Re: The distinctive sound of Tomba

Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 12:05 am
by contakt321
Very cool sound, unique as far as I know. Curious as well.

Re: The distinctive sound of Tomba

Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 12:24 am
by sixth sense
Tomba does have some nice sounds going on there someone has to have the answers!

Re: The distinctive sound of Tomba

Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 12:28 am
by LordBid
wow yea sick sounds, def a lot of delay reverb, but lord knows its far beyond what I know how to do atm.

Re: The distinctive sound of Tomba

Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 7:36 am
by jaydot
Choke on Coke is a tune. :e:

Re: The distinctive sound of Tomba

Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 9:15 am
by deadly_habit
heh he's in the same band as borgore so has a good teacher
in b4 flaming
tomba def has his own sound to him though
lemme get some more booze in me in morning and i'll have a stab at it

Re: The distinctive sound of Tomba

Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 10:01 am
by Gombles
Has to be one of the best vowel filtery synths i heard in a long time, big ups to anyone who can shed some light on it !

Re: The distinctive sound of Tomba

Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 10:06 am
by deadly_habit
sounds to me like 3 sep synth lines runnng for bassline fast as hell on compression side chaining and squashing the hell out of the dynamics for starters
plus some great eq work so every sound occupies ir's own range
almost least to me sounds like he put the bass ahead of the drums in the mix for starters

Re: The distinctive sound of Tomba

Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 11:04 am
by SunkLo
It's probably actual vocal samples processed to smithereens
Crazy noises for sure, no idea how he does it. I'm guessing pacts with the Devil/Martha Stewart

Re: The distinctive sound of Tomba

Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 11:25 am
by marshy
I know a few guys who talk to Tomba , including one who's going to be collabing with him so i'll see what i can get out of people.

In the meantime, a cookie for whoever can get the closest.

Re: The distinctive sound of Tomba

Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 11:36 am
by deadly_habit
marshy wrote:I know a few guys who talk to Tomba , including one who's going to be collabing with him so i'll see what i can get out of people.

In the meantime, a cookie for whoever can get the closest.
nice one man

Re: The distinctive sound of Tomba

Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 11:55 am
by neeeil!
I've spoke to him on facebook a few times about releases and stuff, i'll try giving him a message about coming on here to do a Q&A or something!

Re: The distinctive sound of Tomba

Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 1:20 pm
by JBE
That long vowely synth really does sound like an actual vocal of someone yelling into a mic or something. I've heard other people actually do this and get some pretty interesting results with vocoders and what not, but nothing that dynamic. My abilities are nowhere near this so I'm not even going to bother trying as it will probably end up with me crying in a corner.

Re: The distinctive sound of Tomba

Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2010 2:23 pm
by Steve_French
Soundcloud

my attempt. i used gladiator. for details ask me.

also, lots of tombas stuff are samples just overly processed

Re: The distinctive sound of Tomba

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 4:21 pm
by jjopara
someone has made a bass like his but better but i dunno who :o