The best free vsts for psychedelic sounds?

[manzplan]

If you are trying to create 60s type psych music both what you play and what you are playing. I would suggest getting a good book on scales and modes like keyboard grimiore or guitar grimiore which has alot of scales on modes and their postions on keys and guitars.

that being said we come to instrumentation. First off most psych music of the 60's didn't have the benefit of quantized drums so there for you want to create some subtle and extreme variations in timing. Most of the really good psych music of the 60's had very nice and very distinct timing changing. And precussion is lower in the mix...

Look at the work of a Band called "The United States of America"

Also later work by the 70's progressive band Jethro Tull which took it's cue from the earlier Psych bands and had it's start in the late 60s

One overlooked instrument in Psych music was ala Tull the Flute so therefore get your self a copy of Smartflute which is a DXI instrument.

For lead Guitar's you could use Slayer but not in the chord mode and then play around with different effects... ie phasers, flangers, distortion, fuzz and overdrive.

For rythym guitars take in account that to get the psych jangle that 12 strings were being used quite a bit and there are some softsynth variations on that theme however what is overlooked is that also Vox made a 9 String Guiter that was also used in that period with the top 3 strings doubled for a jangle soley on the high end. Someone needs to emulate that in a softsynth. Also Vox made another Guitar that was a guitar combined with an organ during this period and those are rare and hard to find.

Also there is the imfamous Electric Sitar. Hans Zimmer has a Sample CD with this instrument and there is a thing called a DroneBox in the form of a vst that can mimic the electric Sitar if used with other Guitar softsynths.

There are plenty of 60s organ emulations and many have already mentioned them. It more so remains with playing scales that are ascending than anything else to recreate that 60s psych sound.

Realistic Bass Emulations that are not too overboard or funky ie no slapping or popping bass tones just simple bass was used in 60s psych music and minimal effects.

after that try to add Magneto type effects to warm the tone from digital to an analog feel.

basically you want to be free flowing but not to sloppy ..... you don't want to have that techno feel for a 60s psych type stuff... so if you are working with midi tracks try some humanizing midi effects maybe some things like made by Ntonyx to randomize things slightly.

Also try more middle eastern and asian scales in your work.. You can still remain in the whole 1 4 5 chord progession model but within those exotic scales.....

If adding vocals alot of what made 60's psych sound were male baritone vocals and female soprano...... sure there was Joplin but if you really get into 60s psych you will hear more female soprano vocals.

So I hope this helps.

seriously get a copy of Smartflute and play some lines over a 60s type organ sound and you'll hear and really good 60s psych type sound.

[evilplazma]

VST Instruments :

http://www.vst4free.com/

http://www.dontcrack.com/freeware/softw ... ugins/VST/

VST Effects :

http://www.dontcrack.com/freeware/softw ... m/windows/

http://www.vst4free.com/index.php?m=VSTfx



The Are lot of freeware choices you just need to try some stuff out and form you own opinion on what youwant your sounds to sound like.


http://forum.isratrance.com/list-of-free-vst-s/



My Psychedelic projects :

http://soundcloud.com/plasma-force

http://soundcloud.com/quantum-aura

[CapnLockheed]

Yup, cheezy organs are a big part of the sound especially edgier garage psych.
The Farfisa, as mentioned, was used quite a bit as was the Vox Continental & Jaguar. There are some excellent FREE VST emus of both here:

http://www.martinic.com/combov/

http://www.martinic.com/combof/

Another, often overlooked, component of how these organs sounded on 60's recordings was that they were often played thru tube guitar amps with
cranked up spring reverb so I would suggest running them thru an ampsim
like the FREE Simulanalog suite:

http://www.simulanalog.org/GSuite.zip


Cheers.....CL:oops:

[robogone]

If adding vocals alot of what made 60's psych sound were male baritone vocals and female soprano...... sure there was Joplin but if you really get into 60s psych you will hear more female soprano vocals.

While I agree with pretty much everything above this, I'd disagree about those vocal ranges. I think most male vocals were in the tenor range and as many female in the alto range as soprano. Think about singers like Grace Slick who was the quintessential female singer in a psychedelic band.

[vurt]

if the op hasnt found what hes after in 5 years, i doubt he will today.

[robogone]

if the op hasnt found what hes after in 5 years, i doubt he will today.

Well with psychedelics these things take time man...

[CapnLockheed]

.....and even longer to come down!

[ksandvik]

I would use Guitar Rig or Logic's Pedalboard pedal emulation plug-ins, phaser, flanger, fuzz et rest. And lots of backwards loops! And any crummy sixties drum sample unless you want to bang on an old drum set with a couple of mics.

[Tricky-Loops]

JFYI, this thread is from 2007...

[maxmace]

JFYI, this thread is from 2007...

No, its a flashback.

[robogone]

JFYI, this thread is from 2007...

No, its a flashback.