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Hey all.

I've been working on a track which I hope will be my first release for a couple of weeks now. I have a crisp synth, very chill and laid back, sounds like a digital beach. However, my LFO is all too unique for its own good... unique in the sense that you keel over and die from the ghastly high end and white noise that plagues it. Any suggestions? Below will be a link to a snippet of it. I would greatly appreciate any help in exorcising my track from this disgusting noise.

tl;dr it sounds fuzzy, hollow, and uninteresting. I'd like clear, full, and captivating.

I just did a random thing with the notes so you could hear a decent range of the sound.
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I beg your pardon?

slower lfo rates and eqing. there you go.

I've tried using the EQ (EQ eight on Ableton Live, specifically), but whenever I manage to fatten the low end, the high end gets extremely fuzzy. If I try to work out the fuzz in the high end, I lose punch in the low end. Any specific pointers?

swatalla wrote:I've tried using the EQ (EQ eight on Ableton Live, specifically), but whenever I manage to fatten the low end, the high end gets extremely fuzzy. If I try to work out the fuzz in the high end, I lose punch in the low end. Any specific pointers?

I'm no ableton user but I hear that EQ8 does weird things to the sound. I recommend you to use ReaEQ instead http://www.reaper.fm/reaplugs/

Duplicate your synth and hp one lp the other.

blinx wrote:Duplicate your synth and hp one lp the other.

Route your synth to two linear phase EQ's, tuned to high and low bands. Then turn them down to balance things, throw them both to a bus and saturate them together (just because OPs bass sounded like it needed an instance of the modern amp or tessla saturation on it for my taste)

Teknicyde wrote:

blinx wrote:Duplicate your synth and hp one lp the other.

Route your synth to two linear phase EQ's, tuned to high and low bands. Then turn them down to balance things, throw them both to a bus and saturate them together (just because OPs bass sounded like it needed an instance of the modern amp or tessla saturation on it for my taste)

Blinx: The synth is Filter 1: Bandpass and Filter 2: Lowpass. Does that mean when I duplicate it, I need to just make Filter 2 a highpass filter?

Just to clarify, I'm using NI Massive for my synth and Ableton Live Suite 8 as my DAW.

Teknicyde wrote:

blinx wrote:Duplicate your synth and hp one lp the other.

Route your synth to two linear phase EQ's, tuned to high and low bands. Then turn them down to balance things, throw them both to a bus and saturate them together (just because OPs bass sounded like it needed an instance of the modern amp or tessla saturation on it for my taste)

Blinx: The synth is Filter 1: Bandpass and Filter 2: Lowpass. Does that mean when I duplicate it, I need to just make Filter 2 a highpass filter?

Teknicyde: Can you go into more depth about the EQs? I'm new to digital music production, I usually do live music, so I'm still trying to get the feel for where/what everything is. Then, how do I bus and saturate them together?

Just to clarify, I'm using NI Massive for my synth and Ableton Live Suite 8 as my DAW.