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Are there any good interviews or anything with pop/rock producers listing their general plans of attack, etc.? I'm trying to get some different viewpoints in production.
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http://www.gearslutz.com/board/expert-question-answer-archives-read-only-archive-not-open-new-posts/ http://www.soundonsound.com/search?section=%2F&Keyword=Secrets+Of+The+Mix+Engineers All that doesn't say 'eSub' should be accessible to you.
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# ? Jul 10, 2009 12:24 |
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xpander posted:http://booster.angryhosting.com/samples/murderweapon.mp3 Reposting for new page, being able to reproduce that bass will cheer me up for months.
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# ? Jul 10, 2009 20:55 |
Pie in the Sky posted:The bass in Get Down by Jack Beats (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3fh-yZSWoU). Can be heard specifically starting at 1:37. Reposting for the same reason as the the guy above me.
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# ? Jul 11, 2009 05:11 |
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Pie in the Sky posted:Reposting for the same reason as the the guy above me. Just experiment with detuning, because the out of phase-ness created my having two oscillators detuned sounds kind of like an LFO anyway.
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# ? Jul 11, 2009 10:23 |
I tried messing around with that too, but I couldn't get it to sound so clean...
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# ? Jul 14, 2009 20:32 |
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I'm trying to recreate this track in Logic as an exercise to get to learn to the program. I worked on it a couple of hours last night and got what I think is a decent start. The drums are just an 808 kick, with a snap sample from garage band. I think they are pretty close. For bass and the main synth I'm using EFM1. I think these are alright, but certainly not perfect, and I'd like advice on tuning them a little more. The thing that I couldn't replicate at all is the high pitched warbly pad at the beginning of the song. I'm using the ES2 and tweaked it around a lot and got something I like, but it's definitely not right. It's way off. I don't even know where to start on fixing it. I'm really new to synths. edit: Oh, and the original has lots of weird slides and tricks with the bass. I haven't really tried to tackle them. :/ Mr. Belding fucked around with this message at 16:48 on Jul 25, 2009 |
# ? Jul 25, 2009 16:44 |
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What you call the "warbly pad" is the EVP88 (e.g. a Fender-Rhodes electric piano) with a tremolo effect . If you route an LFO to the amplifier of ES2 you should get something similar. Furthermore, tune your bass drum - the one at the start should be 2 semitones lower. As for the slides - use portamento and just record a few slides as samples. Using audio warp or whatever it's called in Logic, you can cut 'm to size properly. Alternatively, try to automate the coarse tune of the oscillators if that's possible. Sorry for the late reply, was on a holiday and the iPhone doesn't do Tindeck.
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# ? Jul 28, 2009 15:55 |
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How about this bubbly almost fart like bass sound at the beginning of Yoshimi pt 2? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViB5nnPRuYo I imagine it should be easy, I just don't quite know where to start
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# ? Jul 28, 2009 20:09 |
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Sorry if this has been asked hundreds of times but I've always wondered how Trent Reznor / Nine Inch Nails got that sound in Terrible Lie during the bridge/breakdown bit. You know what I mean: You make me throw it all away My morals left to decay How many you betray You've taken everything My head is filled with disease My skin is begging you please I'm on my hands and knees I want so much to believe *DO DA DO - DA - DO - DA DO* I heard Pretty Hate Machine when I was about 5 years old and that sound has stuck with me for years, I think it's really cool. Especially when played live. They even used a similar sound in Closer live for their LitS tour.
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# ? Jul 28, 2009 21:50 |
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Braggot posted:Sorry if this has been asked hundreds of times but I've always wondered how Trent Reznor / Nine Inch Nails got that sound in Terrible Lie during the bridge/breakdown bit. Ring modulator, I think. Source has aliasing so probably some kind of sample either slowed down or sampled on 8- or 12- bit sampler @ 32/24 khz as well.
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# ? Jul 28, 2009 22:52 |
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Modulate the pitch of a triangle or sinewave oscillator with a pink noise source - but the suggestion of abusing a sampler for this is good, too - it explains why the higher pitched sounds are shorter than the lower pitched ones.
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# ? Jul 28, 2009 23:36 |
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Yoozer posted:Modulate the pitch of a triangle or sinewave oscillator with a pink noise source - but the suggestion of abusing a sampler for this is good, too - it explains why the higher pitched sounds are shorter than the lower pitched ones. Or, the initial sample is pitched very very high and it's stepped down 1 or 2 octaves. I used to do this to squeeze more sample time out of an old sampler: sample at 2x normal speed @ 24khz then step down 12 steps to get back to correct pitch, effectively halving the sample rate to 12khz.
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# ? Jul 28, 2009 23:56 |
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Something tells me this is really simple, but I can't get it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V775PPuBc7Y The lead synth from "Riverside" by Sidney Samson. Make me feel stupid.
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# ? Jul 29, 2009 07:54 |
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Don't use basic waveforms, use a looped sample. Detune two oscillators (waveforms are left as an exercise for the reader), hold a note for a while, then chop at a place you shouldn't. Put it in a sampler, loop it, see what you get. Try getting a mix where you hear this sound solo and slow it down with Audacity.
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# ? Jul 30, 2009 23:52 |
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Yoozer posted:Don't use basic waveforms, use a looped sample. Detune two oscillators (waveforms are left as an exercise for the reader), hold a note for a while, then chop at a place you shouldn't. Put it in a sampler, loop it, see what you get. Hmm. Use a looped sample, eh? I think I know what direction you're trying to lead me in. I'll fire up my rig tomorrow and see if I can figure it out. Thanks.
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# ? Jul 31, 2009 07:05 |
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I have a loop from a collection of loops I purchased along time ago (The Ugly Remnants Volume 1) and I really want to know how to recreate the sound of the keyboard so I don't have to use the loop. Preferably how to make it in Reason. Here it is: Any ideas?
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# ? Aug 8, 2009 17:08 |
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Toxygen posted:I have a loop from a collection of loops I purchased along time ago (The Ugly Remnants Volume 1) and I really want to know how to recreate the sound of the keyboard so I don't have to use the loop. Preferably how to make it in Reason. It's an "ACID" style tb303 (or clone) loop. Triangle wave -> resonant filter with portamento ("glide") enabled. Just grab ReBirth-- it's free now. Or use any of the 303/acid sounds already in Reason. http://www.rebirthmuseum.com/
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# ? Aug 8, 2009 20:11 |
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Haven't really read the thread to see if this has been mentioned yet, but..... Any and all tips to create Atmospheric Pads would be greatly appreciated.
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# ? Aug 9, 2009 06:56 |
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SeraphSlaughter posted:I have an Audix D6 and a fairly decent kick drum. All modern studio metal drum tracks are 100% samples. Anyone that tries to deny this is either the producer protecting his "secret", or a moron. You can put a telephone on the kick and run SoundReplacer on the track, and get the same result.
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# ? Aug 9, 2009 07:38 |
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GrazoTheClown posted:Any and all tips to create Atmospheric Pads would be greatly appreciated. Buy Omnisphere. Failing that: Layer. Layerlayerlayerlayer. Don't use single synth sounds - use multiple. http://theheartcore.com/music/ni_pads.mp3 stacks multiple plugins - Massive, Absynth and probably something else I forgot about. Combine sample-based synthesis (ethereal choir sounds) with plain subtractive analog. Vary in volume (using LFO with random waveforms, or periodic waveforms like triangle/sinus out of phase in different tempos during play so the sound evolves. Resample long, drawn out reverbs - listen to http://theheartcore.com/music/reresample.mp3 (which is a synth chord with reverb where the tail is resampled, looped, and resampled after reverb, again). Don't be afraid to stack 3 or 4 plugins, each with entirely their own FX chain, on top of eachother.
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# ? Aug 9, 2009 23:59 |
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mr_package posted:It's an "ACID" style tb303 (or clone) loop. Triangle wave -> resonant filter with portamento ("glide") enabled. The 303 has a saw waveform and a weird M-shaped "square" wave or something, but not a triangle. Don't forget distortion/overdrive, too!
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# ? Aug 10, 2009 17:23 |
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Computer Jones posted:The 303 has a saw waveform and a weird M-shaped "square" wave or something, but not a triangle.
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# ? Aug 10, 2009 19:41 |
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Hey, how do I get this sound: It's a sample from a DRTRON mixtape, and I know it's a reverbed, filter swept, trance synth lead, but I can't get it out of my alesis ion to save my life. should I be using PCM wave forms? Synced oscillators? I have a electribe MX also that can do a host of fun PCM waveforms and has better onboard effects than the alesis, but it can't do craaaaazy signal routing, I guess I could chain them and get the reverb out of the electribe and the nice signal routing from the ion. Anyway, any help would be appreciated.
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# ? Oct 3, 2009 19:09 |
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That's Mars by Fake Blood. I'm pretty sure he's using a sampler, not a synth there. So he plays the notes on a synth, resamples it, loads it into a sampler, and away he goes.
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# ? Oct 3, 2009 20:18 |
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squidgee posted:That's Mars by Fake Blood. I'm pretty sure he's using a sampler, not a synth there. So he plays the notes on a synth, resamples it, loads it into a sampler, and away he goes. Hrmn, well that's cool. I couldn't figure out who dr tron had sampled so I couldn't do anything other than try to recreate the sound by ear. Listening to the song in the original tempo and all that it sounds JP-ish. I'll have to try the Ion's Roland filter mode and some synchronous oscillators when I get home. Do you mean that Fake Blood samples a synth sound, screws with it in some way and then plays it across the scale or that some sound is sampled and played?
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# ? Oct 3, 2009 22:15 |
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I'd say that they're even sampling an entire fragment of a track. But yeah, that's called resampling and it's a common trick. The reason every chord sounds different is because they pitched stuff up and down - besides the pitch, the equalizer "profile" (for a lack of better description) moves up and down, too. This is most obvious when sampling acoustic instruments; a single piano note in the middle of the keyboard will sound dull when it's transposed down and bright when it's transposed up. If you want to emulate this, the most obvious route would to construct each chord separately and use agressive EQing to boost and cut parts - and differently for every chord.
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# ? Oct 3, 2009 23:16 |
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Yoozer posted:I'd say that they're even sampling an entire fragment of a track. Hrmn So I need to get a nice juicy unison lead going through a TB or JP lowpass filter, then run it through a bandpass(or limit, whatever.) filter whose frequency is being modulated by a BPM synced LFO? Or I could just have the band filter track the keys more than normal and have that take the place of the modulation. Would that even get close?
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# ? Oct 4, 2009 00:55 |
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I've always wondered how the texture of the guitars was achieved in the Nine Inch Nails song, "Mr. Self Destruct". To me, it truly is the "saw-like guitar" that people so often use when describing songs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wExEP0n-FX0&fmt=18 (the part in question starts at :19 and ends at :41) The few times I've been able to find information on it, I remember it being described as actual guitar playing being recorded that was then "treated" afterward, but there was never any further information -- so really, anything you could give me would be very interesting.
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# ? Oct 4, 2009 06:35 |
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Ive been listening to a lot of Radiohead and Ive taken notice of their use of the Ondes Martenot. Are these any VST plugins or whatnot that can recreate that eerie, floaty sound? Buying an actual Ondes is out of the question, as they are rare and expensive.
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# ? Oct 13, 2009 02:19 |
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just slap a bunch of glide, vibrato, and a long attack and release on your synth and you're set
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# ? Oct 13, 2009 02:44 |
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Any idea how I can make replicate this lovely pad sound? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBwUJMZNOgQ#t=1m56s I get that it's probably synth strings with a load of reverb, but I'm having trouble getting it right.
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# ? Oct 13, 2009 11:11 |
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First post on SA, first post in ML, and I have to say this forum is AWESOME! VERY informative. So I've been producing for about 3 years or so and been DJing for almost 2. I'm not too sure if you gents and ladies are familiar with Treasure Fingers or Kill The Noise. If you haven't heard of them, please cram these in your earholes: Treasure Fingers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5J2BFXgLL0 Kill The Noise: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdsXiygFNdI I am currently trying to incorporate both sounds into my mixes and production, but I'm having a monumentally hard time with a particular sound: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3K13DcFR9I It starts about 15 seconds in and pitches with the song. It's almost like a droning sound, but not really. It's like the uplifting backup. Jesse James fucked around with this message at 08:57 on Oct 14, 2009 |
# ? Oct 14, 2009 08:52 |
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Jesse James posted:I am currently trying to incorporate both sounds into my mixes and production, but I'm having a monumentally hard time with a particular sound: poo poo, someone will be able to tell you for sure, but it's a really simple square (and something else) waveform with glide and some reverb action on it.
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# ? Oct 14, 2009 09:16 |
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theflyingexecutive posted:poo poo, someone will be able to tell you for sure, but it's a really simple square (and something else) waveform with glide and some reverb action on it. I thought the same, but I'm having a problem with the square. I've added reverb to the line 6 mixer in Reason, and I'm just not getting the same sound. :/ I'm close, but not at the proper pitch or volume.
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# ? Oct 14, 2009 09:22 |
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Found another sound I want to re-create, the bubbly (probably chorused) lead 2m48s into http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7itqjWKbU4 Any immediate clues come to mind? Wish my EA1 was cool enough to replicate it.
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# ? Oct 14, 2009 14:32 |
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MrLonghair posted:Found another sound I want to re-create, the bubbly (probably chorused) lead 2m48s into http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7itqjWKbU4 Try a square wave, FM modulated, with portamento enabled (edit: actually not sure if that's correct but listen to the youtube below). I think the default preset in the Pro53 VSTi is quite close to what you want. edit: this sound http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVw5EaWHovc wayfinder fucked around with this message at 00:31 on Nov 11, 2009 |
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MrLonghair posted:Found another sound I want to re-create, the bubbly (probably chorused) lead 2m48s into http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7itqjWKbU4 1. harmonized lead / arpeggio panned left / right 2. mono / lead (one note at a time) 3. portamento (glide) 4. short but pronounced filter envelope "hits" when the player retriggers the portamento Not sure about the wave form but it's nothing special, just a basic analog lead type sound. It's very bright though. I can't tell if that's due to filter characteristics / resonance or just oscillator timbre or EQ. It also may be highpass filter instead of standard 303-y lowpass. Because it's Dream Theater they are probably doing something much more fancy to get that "exact" sound (especially regards to the filter envelope behaviour) but the above is the basics and should get a reasonable facsimile. edit: what wayfinder said, in other words, sorry.
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# ? Nov 11, 2009 03:11 |
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(presumably) easy to figure out, but i'm a noob when it comes to sound programming. I really like the Bass in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXMdKE5K9Ks Can you point me in the right direction?
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bionictom posted:(presumably) easy to figure out, but i'm a noob when it comes to sound programming. my guess is two slightly overdriven octaved square waves
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# ? Nov 11, 2009 21:33 |