How do I make my digital recordings colder?

[Gospel]

i want a nice, icy mid-90's style digital delay in AU please

[pandashake]

i want a nice, icy mid-90's style digital delay in AU please

Just take it outside! It's plenty cold in Colorado this time of year.

[Aroused by JarJar]

Smash it over 0dbfs and do not limit, add the most nasty metalic reverb you have and brootally boost all around 1k-7k; Until its skin turns blue

Isn't that what people who go on and on about "warm" and "vintage" do?

Say- since "cold" and "warm" are at least partly subjective, would you consider this sound:

http://dl.kibla.org/dl.php?filename=Sil ... 4285p7.WAV

"cold""? Just curious (comparing synaesthesia experiences).

[states]

most content above 12.5k is usually considered 'cold'.
also, try to contain your punchy lows at around 95hz
put a 65hz hi-pass on
flangers can sound cold, as well as, sibilant verbs.
sync your delays & mod fx in strict tempo.

[Gospel]

i want a nice, icy mid-90's style digital delay in AU please

Just take it outside! It's plenty cold in Colorado this time of year.

i know but they keep blowing away.........

[Meffy]

i want a nice, icy mid-90's style digital delay in AU please

*shaker* *ice* ... With or without Cointreau?

[afreshcupofjoe]

Say- since "cold" and "warm" are at least partly subjective, would you consider this sound:

http://dl.kibla.org/dl.php?filename=Sil ... 4285p7.WAV

"cold""? Just curious (comparing synaesthesia experiences).

Nope, far too warm for my tastes. Probably needs metallic reverb.

[Music Engineer]

i would think that a lot of that vintage digital coldth has to do with aliasing which is essentialy non-harmonic frequency content (but still sinusoidal, as opposed to noise). so to add some coldth, i'd experiment with processes that create such inharmonic frequency content (frequency shifters, maybe? or ringmod?) or if you make electronic music, use synthesis techniques that can create somesuch in the first place (FM, for example)

[0100]

Do the opposite of what they suggest in this thread. http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... sc&start=0

[Gospel]

i want a nice, icy mid-90's style digital delay in AU please

*shaker* *ice* ... With or without Cointreau?

nah grey goose straight out the freezer...

[afreshcupofjoe]

Say- since "cold" and "warm" are at least partly subjective, would you consider this sound:

http://dl.kibla.org/dl.php?filename=Sil ... 4285p7.WAV

"cold""? Just curious (comparing synaesthesia experiences).

Nope, far too warm for my tastes. Probably needs metallic reverb.

Here, it's a good bit colder now:

http://www.speedyshare.com/669591233.html

...but it still needs something, maybe a more piercing attack?

[states]

yeah, FM, additive and lots of the PPG!

[afreshcupofjoe]

Drink a hot, fresh cup of joe and they'll seem colder by comparison.

Ironically, I quite drinking coffee a few months ago after being a hardcore caffeine addict for most of my life. It was making my nerves ragged. Now I'm a tea man. (still caffeinated, but far less so) If I could change my alias, I would.

[Liquidclear]

Convert to low bitrate MP3 and back

[Meffy]

...but it still needs something, maybe a more piercing attack?

Close, but I recommend backing off on the octane and maybe layering some oh-so-subtle dental air drill samples for extra thinnitude. Avoid increasing stereo height beyond a sensible tropospheric boundary; buy new pad presets when you use the last sheet from the old ones; and never fail to put a NPF on the bass.

But really all that's just icing (ha ha) on the cake. Everyone knows you can't get any colder than digital audio. So decorating nothingness is your true task. That is your purpose, Arthur.