White Noise

[SaveMidnight]

I know how to make White Noise Sweeps, but I don't really know when to use them.
So I was wondering if people had them going underneath the track the whole time, and just raised the volume on them when they wanted it to swell or if youre dropping it in for the transition.

[hutyluty]

Use them every 16 bars, 2 bars long.

Follow my instructions exactly or your fellow producers will laugh at you.

[alpz]

You can use it to make a texture to give a fuller sound to your track, you can use it to lead up to transitions, build tension, anything you want to. You can filter it or modulate the volume, whichever sounds best to you.

[omegaweapon]

Use them every 16 bars, 2 bars long.

Follow my instructions exactly or your fellow producers will laugh at you.

thats the best representation of when to use it that i can think of.

[omegaweapon]

also, check my sig. another way to use it. as suggested by alpz

[mthrfnk]

You can use it to make a texture to give a fuller sound to your track, you can use it to lead up to transitions, build tension, anything you want to. You can filter it or modulate the volume, whichever sounds best to you.

This.
Also you can use very sparse white noise at like -20dB on busses to raise the noise floor for your compressors. (deadmau5 protip )

[eldoogle]

You can use it to make a texture to give a fuller sound to your track, you can use it to lead up to transitions, build tension, anything you want to. You can filter it or modulate the volume, whichever sounds best to you.

This.
Also you can use very sparse white noise at like -20dB on busses to raise the noise floor for your compressors. (deadmau5 protip )

What do you mean? Can you give a little better explanation?

[wormcode]

I like white noise playing in the background... not a big fan of clean digital audio so I like some kind of noise going on down there. Otherwise I like to use noise oscs to generate noise when programming synths, I find it works best when making pads and obviously risers.

[mthrfnk]

You can use it to make a texture to give a fuller sound to your track, you can use it to lead up to transitions, build tension, anything you want to. You can filter it or modulate the volume, whichever sounds best to you.

This.
Also you can use very sparse white noise at like -20dB on busses to raise the noise floor for your compressors. (deadmau5 protip )

What do you mean? Can you give a little better explanation?

Found the interview:

You could hear it, but there wasn’t too much reverb. It had enough ambience. It had this dryness, too, that gave it a crisp, present feel that you don’t always hear.

Especially on tracks like “Bad Selection.” Me and [DJ] Aero were really meticulous about the cleanliness of that track. On a lot of tracks, I will throw in dirt vinyl stuff, just to give it a little bit of lift when I come on a release time of a compression. When it comes back up it’s got something to lift up instead of just silence. Things like that I do a lot, especially with noise. But that one, we really wanted to stay away, we wanted to give it a more super-tight, super-clean sound, and with minimal effect as possible between notes.

Describe what you were talking about, as far as throwing in the dirt in between when the compressor is hitting.

What I do a lot, I take two SM57s, go up on my roof and just hit record. I’ve got about a 20-minute long file of this that I’ve been using forever. You bring it down to -18dB, to where I can just start to hear it, and I don’t know if I’m going deaf or if my hearing is getting more f**ked up, but every time I go to listen for it, it gets harder and harder to hear.

It’s just ambience, just air sound, right?

Yes.

And then what do you do with it? Do you lay it underneath the whole song?

I throw it in a bus that’s being heavily compressed or effected, and then that will lift up the quote-unquote noise floor, so it’s almost exactly how you would simulate a room with an IR verb, except you are not doing that and it’s not a room.

But you’re adding a slightly gritty thing that’s very subtle.

Yes, you would never hear it in the end, because it might get EQed out way too much. I might high-pass the hell out of it, even.