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I love the sounds Brian Aubert from Silversun Pickups gets out of his guitar/effects. How does he get this sound from Waste It On: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI3A3R3iYAA&t=161s I'm talking about the punch at the beginning of the solo.
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Koth posted:I love the sounds Brian Aubert from Silversun Pickups gets out of his guitar/effects. Octave effect (octave below). Adds punch/balls/whatever to pretty much everything. Then lots of self-oscillating delays but you probably already knew that 
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May 4, 2013 17:30
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Neat, a song I am familiar with for once. I don't hear an octave pedal. That's the bassist doubling the start of the solo. Carnavas era pedalboard is here:  Lots of delays. Looks like either the DL4 or loop station is providing the endless echo (very high feedback and quick delay time) that is toggled on and off. There are also some Boss digital delays there though if I am not mistaken. It's switched on for the start, but he also triggers it at the end of most of the measures there (2:50, 2:54, 3:03, 3:09, 3:13, 3:18). The start is a lot more brutally dissonant than the other triggers -- perhaps he strums some harmonics there. Barn Door fucked around with this message at 16:20 on May 5, 2013 |
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May 5, 2013 16:14
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ohnonotbadgers posted:All of that stuff is just: Is that how this similar sound at 2:47 is made? http://youtu.be/a0qaUrLhwzE?t=2m44s
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May 6, 2013 03:42
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How can I recreate the wide open, mechanical "THWAP" sound you hear starting at about 1:20 of The Man's Too Strong by Dire Straits? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVdB-UKfxD4
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May 9, 2013 12:31
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NonzeroCircle posted:You're on the right track with the Performer, use the saw shape synced to 1/8 or similar depending on tempo and use it to modulate the Wt-Position on harmonic-rich (ie buzzy) waveforms. Alternatively you can modulate a low pass filter, or, for a different vibe, leave the filter open and use the Performer to modulate the Intensity when the Oscillator is set to Spectrum. You generally want to be using waves with a lot of harmonics, and make use of the Sine Shaper and hardclipper insert units, plus tube distortion and the Dimension Expander fx units. Thanks! I guess it's all trial and error for finding the right sounding wave tables eh? I'll sit in front of massive for hours just trying to find good combinations, but in the end It feels like I can never achieve that thick, smooth sound. It's always too raspy, or not "full" enough, if that makes sense.
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May 9, 2013 20:48
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There's a cool little chirpy sound I like that comes in this song at around 30 seconds for the verses. I tried to make something similar with a slow pitch decay envelope and a faster filter envelope with some variation of a sine wave but it didn't sound right. There's something kind of vocal about the sound in the song that I couldn't get just from what I tried, like a person saying "ooh" real quick, so maybe it's just a sample? Pitched up a whole bunch and tons of reverb? Anyway thanks for any ideas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzVo5HYhg6A&t=30s
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May 10, 2013 02:42
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E1M5 posted:Thanks! I guess it's all trial and error for finding the right sounding wave tables eh? I'll sit in front of massive for hours just trying to find good combinations, but in the end It feels like I can never achieve that thick, smooth sound. It's always too raspy, or not "full" enough, if that makes sense. No sweat, ohnonotbadgers' advice is also good, especially the part about envelopes. It's all about experimentation. Everyone has their own way of doing these things, and (barring basic knowledge of synths) it comes down to fiddling and tweaking until it sounds good. The Groan, Digigrain, Drive and Digicook wavetables are all good for that modern dubstep sound, though after a while you'll be able to pick them out of other people's productions (as is the case with Modern Talking, it's been used sooooo much) so mix it up, try other waves- it's amazing what a difference the Phase setting in the Modulation Osc can make, even to a simple waveform like a square. Also bear in mind a lot of dubstep involves fairly heavy processing after the synth itself; filters, EQs, distortions. If you have an amp sim like Guitar Rig or Amplitube, try running Massive through the pedals in those, and definitely look into multiband distortion, my favorite is Ohmicide. Multiband effects (distortions, filters, compressors etc) split the incoming signal into a few (normally 3 or 4) bands across the frequency spectrum, so you can leave, say, everything under 90Hz clean (for that sub weight) and only distort the mid/high frequencies. It's also common to have a dedicated sub (sine or triangle, something simple) playing underneath the distorted 'mid bass' tones, so you could make your Massive patch, put a highpass on it somewhere between 100-200Hz, then copy the midi pattern to whatever you are using for the sub bass.
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May 12, 2013 19:21
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So, while I know all the theory of FM synthesis and know all the techno-jargon surrounding it, I remain terrible at it so I must enlist help. Particularly, I want to know how to replicate two rather common sounds in an FM Synthesizer. Danger 4h30 Now, the main bass (Which comes in after 8 bars) I can synthesize just fine on a moog or analog synth emulator pretty well, but it lacks a certain grit and character that I love. Wondering how I'd do the same on the FM Synth. Secondly, and more importantly, I'm curious how to make that classic sega genesis electric guitar style lead that comes in around 0:50 and dominates the mix at 1:08 on or so.
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May 13, 2013 16:22
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So, the intro to Daft Punk's "Touch", particularly at about 28 seconds in, that thing where a sweep generates an arpeggio of sorts, that's a sample and hold effect, right? I've been trying to figure out a way to achieve that for a while now in either Massive, Reaktor or Ableton's Operator or Analog. Or to find a VST effect that makes it possible. Does anyone have any idea?
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May 14, 2013 16:37
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Shovelbearer posted:So, the intro to Daft Punk's "Touch", particularly at about 28 seconds in, that thing where a sweep generates an arpeggio of sorts, that's a sample and hold effect, right? I've been trying to figure out a way to achieve that for a while now in either Massive, Reaktor or Ableton's Operator or Analog. Or to find a VST effect that makes it possible. Does anyone have any idea? Sounds like a sine wave playing a pentatonic scale to me.
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May 14, 2013 17:09
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I heard this song on the radio today (Mount Kimbie - You Took Your Time Ft. King Krule)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi4lBmBoT-k. I've heard similar sounding synths and it's one I really like, and would like to replicate to play around with. I am guessing it uses a square wave and maybe a sine or triangle wave, but that's as far as I am able to guess. The sound in particular is the first sound you hear, the chord progression loop. Thanks!
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May 29, 2013 10:14
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I've been trying to recreate this sound for a bit, but I don't know where to start. It's the guitar line from this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOaxEa5ONJw It's kinda like a 'funk' guitar sound. Sharp, compressed, and clean maybe with some palm muting? Anyone have any ideas? Thanks! Carl Killer Miller fucked around with this message at 19:57 on Jun 2, 2013 |
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Jun 2, 2013 19:55
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Hi! There are two sounds I would like help understanding, please, and they both come from Nine Inch Nails' Eraser (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVwmqsGYJDY) First are the drums that start at 0:34. I don't know anything about playing the drums but I have listened to a lot of drums and those are the most hollow, expansive sounding ones I've ever heard. How did they do this? What effects did they use to create this kind of sound? Did they record them in a particular space, or use a particular kind of recording set-up? I don't expect anyone to actually know what NIN did specifically for that track, but I would definitely like to have a better understanding of why they sound the way that they do. Second is the (I'm pretty sure this is a guitar and not a synth) high-pitch lead that starts at 2:25. To me this sound is feels creepy and almost desperate, but I really like it. As I write this it is occurring to me that I don't even really know the right questions to ask about how to make this sound - how to communicate the specific effects that I want to recreate. Hopefully knowing more about what is done to make it will educate me! Thanks!
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Jun 9, 2013 21:49
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Wardende posted:Hi! There are two sounds I would like help understanding, please, and they both come from Nine Inch Nails' Eraser (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVwmqsGYJDY) For the drums, it sounds like pretty standard gated reverb to me, just with the 'verb turned up a lot.
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Jun 9, 2013 22:52
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So there's this particular guitar sound I'm craving, as heard on The Black Keys' Thickfreakness album. Especially in the title song itself- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO7Y_-IYlbo around 0:21 onwards when the intro ends and the drums open up, that guitar sound...I get the basic idea; some sort of fuzz unit and shitloads of bass, about 1'o clock mids and cut treble. But try as I might I have no idea how to get that sound at all. Any help?
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Jun 15, 2013 01:51
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I'd like to recreate a pretty basic/classic/cliched pad synth sound. This is a super-cheesy example but it demonstrates the sound pretty clearly, from the opening bars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Tvqay45yFk anyone got a recipe?
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Jun 16, 2013 01:31
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Gently detuned saws into a lowpass filter set rather low, add some reverb. I prefer 12db/2pole filters for this kind of sound but 24db can also work, you just need to set it a little higher than you would one with a gentler slope. If you are using a plugin try adding just a tiny bit of noise also, if you're on an analog it's probably noisy enough already.
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Jun 16, 2013 02:10
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Thanks, got something pretty close now. 
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Jun 16, 2013 14:42
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I'm getting a 7 string PRS Custom SE with a Sustainiac so I can do textural guitar work like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBpE3bGaFFs What do I need in terms of effects to get something like the tone on that melody that starts at about 30 seconds in? I am utterly clueless when it comes to effects 
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Jun 19, 2013 08:12
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Wardende posted:Hi! There are two sounds I would like help understanding, please, and they both come from Nine Inch Nails' Eraser (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVwmqsGYJDY) You can do a lot with drums by recording them in a big room from far away and adding minimal effects afterwards. Probably a lot of EQing as well. The "synth" is a processed guitar, so some pedals... light over drive into a verb and then delay could get you this sound. There also seems to be panning, so maybe a ping pong stereo delay.
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Jun 25, 2013 21:12
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I have been fiddling with Synth1 and still have a lot to figure out. I have tried using some presets and have about 1000 of them now, but most of them are not very practical. I am trying to figure out how to make most sounds on my own, but have trouble. Right now I am trying to make sounds similar to the ones in this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR2vYPddzAc They are so simple sounding but I can't figure them out. Another one I am trying to imitate sounds from is this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQRt0jLR6IQ I figure that since these have sounds similar to the ones I want to make, that being able to imitate these ones would allow me to make my own much more effectively. Does anyone here know of a tutorial or something that can help me here?
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Jul 1, 2013 21:46
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This one should be pretty simple, I recognize it but can't place it at all and it's driving me crazy! The "woop"ing sound that starts at 0:20 and keeps repeating every few seconds after that: https://soundcloud.com/bondax/no-diggity
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Jul 1, 2013 23:32
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Adam Vegas posted:So there's this particular guitar sound I'm craving, as heard on The Black Keys' Thickfreakness album.
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Jul 3, 2013 14:47
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Laserjet 4P posted:
Does anybody have this? I want this. It's a BoC/tycho bell example as a start.
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Jul 9, 2013 20:55
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Does anybody know how to make a house organ stab type sound like this? (the one basically playing the same note over and over) http://www.beatport.com/track/ive-been-misled-dub-mix/3022474 I've found some deeper ones but this one sounds like it occupies more higher frequencies or sounds more suitable to be a lead. Blowdryer fucked around with this message at 23:22 on Jul 18, 2013 |
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Jul 18, 2013 22:58
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Trying to find the percussion sound found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzr7wrSg1T4&t=169s Tried a few samples with various effects, but haven't come remotely close.
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Jul 19, 2013 20:05
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Blowdryer posted:Does anybody know how to make a house organ stab type sound like this? (the one basically playing the same note over and over) Pretty much 70% of all of the original 90's organ house sounds can be traced back to the Korg M1 synth, which today is available as a VST. But real the key to making typical house organ stabs is (re)sampling your sounds. Record a (random) chord into a sampler and play the melody from there in stead of pulling it directly from your VST, add some pitch bend and you're all set for classic house. Sjoewe fucked around with this message at 16:20 on Jul 20, 2013 |
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Jul 20, 2013 16:18
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I wasn't sure if I should post this in this thread or the drums one, but I am interested in how I might program something like it, so... As a non-drummer I am trying to figure out what the drummer is doing in Manilla Road - Road of Kings. Specifically, he changes the way he plays the snare drum at 2:23. If you don't want to listen to the whole thing, if you skip to ~2:00 you can clearly get to hear the difference. Am I being a bit dense and he's just hitting it harder and in conjunction with the kick drum? Is it a rimshot? What's going on here? 
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Jul 21, 2013 21:00
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sCSe7P0JQE love that raw noise that comes in at 3:19! sounds like a form of spring reverb + some sort of slow noise synth?
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Jul 21, 2013 22:19
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How do I recreate the sound of boots stomping like the end of DEVO's Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA? I don't care if it's exact or not https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQvEu6G-i_0 5:41
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Jul 24, 2013 16:06
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aeverous posted:This one should be pretty simple, I recognize it but can't place it at all and it's driving me crazy! That's a cuica. I think several drum machines have that exact sample. At least Roland R-8 does. Rion.exe posted:As a non-drummer I am trying to figure out what the drummer is doing in Manilla Road - Road of Kings. Specifically, he changes the way he plays the snare drum at 2:23. If you don't want to listen to the whole thing, if you skip to ~2:00 you can clearly get to hear the difference. I'm no drummer either, but that's called a flam - hitting the snare with both sticks almost, but not quite simultaneously. You might not be able to exactly replicate it with two separate samples, but if you're stuck with that, shortening the first hit's decay to only slightly overlap with the second could help.
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Jul 24, 2013 19:47
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Maximum Planck posted:I'm no drummer either, but that's called a flam Aaah, thanks! I thought it might've been two hits at first but didn't trust myself.
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Jul 24, 2013 20:18
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Was the FM bass on Michael Jackson's Another Part of Me a stock DX-7 patch?
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Aug 24, 2013 19:35
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How would you guys come up with the sound that comes in at 1:02, it's more full at 1:31. I've heard it in so many techno songs https://soundcloud.com/yoin/oin-swift Edit: Also I've heard multiple times that you're supposed to take a chord and put it in a sampler to make deep house chords, could anyone give me like a step by step on how to do this in FL studio? I just haven't figured it out and I want to make deep chords forever
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Aug 28, 2013 16:14
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You can make deep chords in just a synth, not a problem. Just take a pluck patch, play a chord somewhere in the lower octaves, low-pass heavily and play around with bitcrusher, reverb, delay etc. to flavour it.
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Aug 28, 2013 18:52
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I have no idea how to do so with FL Studio specifically but it's a straightforward concept that translates across all synths/samplers so hopefully this will help! First step: make your chord. Take the synth you want making the original noise, say that M1 vst, and sequence a chord however you want. Second step: make your sample. Logic's function for this is "Bounce in place" but the idea is just to render the audio from the one synth chord. You could even export a full song, worst case, if all you had was the one chord there. You can also add distortion/bitcrushing/reverb/etc at this stage- this is probably what's happening with the organ chord from that track you posted from beatport. Anyway, once you've got it sounding how you want, you'll be left with one chord sample. Third step: load the sample you just made into a sampler and play. This part seems counter-intuitive going in to the process- why not just program chords on the original VST? Artifacts is why! Samplers will alter the tone of a sample depending on whether it's pitched up or down (so B3 pitched down to B2 will sound slightly different than B1 pitched up) and introduce artifacts in some cases due to bitrates (bit crushers in step 2 can help here too) and those artifacts will in turn get altered by the sampler's pitch. So you get some interesting possibilities depending on how you go through it. This process in general is called "resampling". That M1 stab sounded pitched down to me, based on the noise, but the best thing to do is play with it and get a hang of what makes what sound- it's subtle but it's worth knowing.
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i'm curious about two sounds in this song, one at 1:30 other at 1:40: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ6FM_0yJAc at 1:30: that high-pitched string in the background, is that sampled or, if it's synthesized, how do you do it? then, at 1:40, when that bassline kicks in. i thought maybe that was a 303 with a square wave and alot of LP filter but i tried recreating the sound with a 303 and it doesn't quite sound like that, is it just some more FX on the 303 or is it something else? thanks very much
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Epileper posted:i'm curious about two sounds in this song, one at 1:30 other at 1:40: For 1:30 I typically just pick a string preset and have a really long note that's the key of the song but a very high octave then just eq it till it sounds how you want. e: ps I'm dumb and don't know how to use synths sorry haha.
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Epileper posted:i'm curious about two sounds in this song, one at 1:30 other at 1:40: The string pad is a very standardish, non-tricky string pad, played high as hell. Also make sure you highpass it, to make sure that it only occupies that shimmery high end. That bassline is *really* low. I suspect there is a subharmonic or it's just pitched down more than a 303-ish can do. Also, the envelope is pretty short and is almost all release - the notes are likely very short, but the smooth finish of the last half of the bass notes indicate that it's got a smooth fade out. I would start with a triangle wave, a little overdrive or crunch to bring out the harmonics - we don't need metal distortion here- and low low pitch.
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