What is the key to these plucks
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 616 posts since 18 Dec, 2010
Hey, i am wondering, when i make super saw plucks they never seem to feel right, they always seem to feel flimsy and weak, i am listening to this track and they seem to solid and professional
@ 2.46 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj7fcaTYSPk
Does anybody have any ideas to get it sounding so nice and 'professional'
Typically i am using sylenth and massive, in sylenth i am using all saws voices to 8, detuned and filter cut off
Thank you in advance!
Mike
@ 2.46 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj7fcaTYSPk
Does anybody have any ideas to get it sounding so nice and 'professional'
Typically i am using sylenth and massive, in sylenth i am using all saws voices to 8, detuned and filter cut off
Thank you in advance!
Mike
Anybody can do anything if they set their mind to it
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- KVRist
- 186 posts since 27 Sep, 2012 from Tampa, Florida
compress hardddddd.
just got done watching an in the studio vid with alex metric and the biggest and every one of his sounds including bass was so punchy and crisp even like his pads, and its because he pretty much compressed everything
just got done watching an in the studio vid with alex metric and the biggest and every one of his sounds including bass was so punchy and crisp even like his pads, and its because he pretty much compressed everything
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- KVRist
- 43 posts since 17 Dec, 2010
1. layering: layer two or more synths with different sounds together.
2. cut the frequencies: use one layer for just the lower frequencies and cut out the highs with an eq. use one layer for the middle frequencies and cut out the highs and lows. use one layer just for the high frequencies and cut out the lows. route the layers together to a group/sum channel and eq the sound till you like it.
3. compression. use a compressor, to give the sound more power. after the compression you can additionally use a 2nd eq to tune your sound a little bit more, if you want. you also can use a decent tape saturation. this can bring the sound a light warm feeling.
if you need more punch at the attack phase of your plucks, you can use the mod envelope/pitch envelope and modulate the pitch of the sound a little bit: set the attack to 0, give it a very short decay, no sustain, no release, and increase the amount of the mod env just a little bit.
hope that helps you a little bit.
here's a nice tutorial, how you can push your pluck sounds a bit by using he mod envelope:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmCjbMZVEWg
2. cut the frequencies: use one layer for just the lower frequencies and cut out the highs with an eq. use one layer for the middle frequencies and cut out the highs and lows. use one layer just for the high frequencies and cut out the lows. route the layers together to a group/sum channel and eq the sound till you like it.
3. compression. use a compressor, to give the sound more power. after the compression you can additionally use a 2nd eq to tune your sound a little bit more, if you want. you also can use a decent tape saturation. this can bring the sound a light warm feeling.
if you need more punch at the attack phase of your plucks, you can use the mod envelope/pitch envelope and modulate the pitch of the sound a little bit: set the attack to 0, give it a very short decay, no sustain, no release, and increase the amount of the mod env just a little bit.
hope that helps you a little bit.
here's a nice tutorial, how you can push your pluck sounds a bit by using he mod envelope:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmCjbMZVEWg
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- KVRAF
- 7880 posts since 16 Apr, 2003 from -on the outside looking in
I find that for this pluck I always need less filter opening than I expected and the envelope curve makes a big difference in the sound.
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