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Hi hi hi!!!
How to create chord's sound at the beginning of track?!
Layers or...?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-IWRmpefzE

Thankkks!

That's a guitar dude.

Google 'reggae Guitar skank samples' and you should be able to find some good free ones. Also sometimes layering piano chords on top helps thicken the sound a little.

I like to make this in sylenth. 2 oscillators:

-1 5-voiced sawtooth with some dentunage
-1 5-voiced sine with some detunage pitched down 1 octave
-low-pass filter with a little bit of drive, resonance, keytracking, and warm drive
-amp envelope with no attack or sustain, just decay about half-way up and some release
-little bit of vibrato
-envelope on cutoff - similar to amp envelope
-EQ to taste in synth or daw
-pingpong delay, not too much, I usually put the rates at 1/8
-reverb, a liberal amount
-compress if you want.
-phaser will also sound cool.

You can hear this in the first tune in my sig.

But the key to this sound is using the right notes. Minor chords work well.

These are called guitar stabs, playing a minor chord. So just make a staccato synth that plays for example a F minor chord.

jamaican chords. lol.

piano/rhodes/violin stabs also work for this sound if you can't get a guitar skank - just run them through a cab/amp sim.

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Wow, big ups man. That sounds rad!

I love how you all pick on this dude like school kids "Jamaican chords lol" and then he posts a track preview which is 95% better than most tracks posted on the production forum. DSF, why you so funny.

Just sample a reggae chord and add a lot of reverb to it. Seems to be the best option to me in all honesty.

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Wow, big ups man. That sounds rad!

I love how you all pick on this dude like school kids "Jamaican chords lol" and then he posts a track preview which is 95% better than most tracks posted on the production forum. DSF, why you so funny.

I think it's more about the odd nature of the OP question. Reggae guitar stabs are a pretty established sound in the musical lexicon and are easily identifiable, including in the tune posted in the op. No one was musing at the posters musical ability as much as finding it a bit quirky that this kind of question should come up. even more suprisingly by someone that later was revealed to indeed have an adept hand at production.

An odd situation indeed, maybe it's a cultural thing IDK. But more so than ever, on a dubstep forum, dubstep being a genre that evolved from a hybridization of dub reggae and two step garage. Such a prominent motif in the dub reggae genre as the guitar licks featured in the op is an unusual question to be asked about in such a way.

Turnipish Thoughts wrote:I think it's more about the odd nature of the OP question. Reggae guitar stabs are a pretty established sound in the musical lexicon and are easily identifiable, including in the tune posted in the op. No one was musing at the posters musical ability as much as finding it a bit quirky that this kind of question should come up. even more suprisingly by someone that later was revealed to indeed have an adept hand at production.

An odd situation indeed, maybe it's a cultural thing IDK. But more so than ever, on a dubstep forum, dubstep being a genre that evolved from a hybridization of dub reggae and two step garage. Such a prominent motif in the dub reggae genre as the guitar licks featured in the op is an unusual question to be asked about in such a way.