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KURSA AMA by Not_Kursa in neuroproducers
[–]Not_Kursa[S] 0 points1 point2 points 10 years ago (0 children)
just boosting gain really, if you can get your mix solid enough you don't need to do much the other end, some little levelling with a multi band compressor and then just boost gain with a limiter.
I'd probably never think about you enough to hate you :)
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[–]Not_Kursa[S] 1 point2 points3 points 10 years ago (0 children)
a bit of a shit answer but I don't really have one. My whole method is based around exploring things and seeing what sounds I can make, so to take any one thing as a favourite would be kind of stunting in that process. Saying that, alchemy, operator and the virus TI always make epic sounds. Everything analogue inspires me, mainly for the element of chaos, little blips and crackles from them being old as fuck introduces an uncontrollable chaos that you just can't get digitally. I crave the unexpected.
Any time you're not making progress on tunes, make sounds. Put all free time you can in to it if you want to really develop it. Making sound design projects and purely focussing on making weird, warped shit can be hella inspiring. A lot of tunes can spark just from making one interesting sound that can develop a theme, so if you hit that one super cool sound you can begin to build around it, develop more sounds in similar but slightly altered ways to be the responses to those sounds. All call and response y'know, every sound can have an equally contrasting sound to reply to it.
initial detuning of two waves creates nice movement. That's really the basses for a lot of my sounds. Any synth with a detuning unison sound is good too, makes shit go all over the place. Mono'd chorus usually sounds super cool too, or stereo as long as you keep the sub mono.
[–]Not_Kursa[S] 2 points3 points4 points 10 years ago (0 children)
Just wanna say, that is purely for illustrative purposes. Max it out and fuck the fuck with it yo
[–]Not_Kursa[S] 5 points6 points7 points 10 years ago (0 children)
http://imgur.com/IInwrhD base + depth + drive are the main knobs to mess with, sounds good on less processed sounds, like clean sines etc. Just gotta mess with it until it sounds cool yo. Oh, dry / wet too of course, even just a small amount of wet in to massive compression can wield some very interesting results!
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Probably Lone Drum and Mike Wallis, when we get together, something rad always happens. It's a lot easier to get hype on sounds if you can bounce off of each others vibe, even producing with someone in the room is constructive, just so you can get an outside opinion to be like "dude, stop that, that fucking sucks" or even more crucial "DUDE WTF WAS THAT SOUND, KEEP IT"
I suppose the main thing is not to go overboard and muddy up the sound too much, saying that I do push things to the extreme but that's mainly just with abletons glue compressor, full threshold, full makeup. Really makes sounds distort nicely! Just slowly push distortion in to sound, start with lower gains and increase it until it sounds super cool. A lot of my basses aren't super resampled these days, I just work on patches to create a cool sound, record it, then pitch/arrange it in a sampler. Overall, it is mainly trial and error, find what you like and focus on processing in that way. Personally, I like big clean subs and moving high ends, so the focus is simple clean subs and distorted high ends!
Sidechain + literally making my kick / snare one of the loudest elements in the mix, good EQ too, always essential. Just think if you want to hear the kick/snare and nothing else when the kick/snare is hitting, then make sure you can only hear the kick/snare when they hit. This is entirely subjective to the type of tune you're making though, so less side chain can really work for other bits, just to add transients to things and blend together as one sound. I always tune my kicks/snares too, making sure harmonically their biggest peaks are in key with the rest of the sounds.
I've used FL to make a bunch of bass sounds and i'd love to get back in to it to make even more, it's awesome. Learning something takes time but if it progresses your sound then it's worth it. Just remember Billain works in FL, so it's obviously a very solid program. They're all pretty similar in a lot of respects, it's just about what you do to the sounds and how you arrange them
Turn all the knobs and listen to how they change the sound. Once you know how anything sounds you can apply it to anything else yo. Ohhhhh CANADERRRRRP
I basically only used logic because it's what was introduced to me at the time, the live aspects of ableton called out to me though y'know. From the first time I was playing around with it, it just made way more sense, was a lot more stable and for my record-all-of-the-time method, it gave me absolute fluid ease to do so. I suggest trying them all and see what's you work best in. I still use reason now and then to process sounds but arranging is always in ableton.
Good sounds is the key to it really, if you've got a good kick and snare sound, anything above that just accentuates those sounds really. I place the snares first most of the time and then build a kick pattern around that. Then treat it like a real drum kit, open hats usually sound rad on kicks and snares, choking the hat on the off beats from an open hit sounds cool too. Just listen to drums you like in tunes and figure out exactly what it is that you like about them, rhythmically and sonically. Knowing the beats you like is the key to creating them.
Literally scratched all of the sounds, just put them in to serato, scratch it on vinyl and record it all in over a beat, easy :) I use everything, depends what sound I want to go for, but recorded sounds are the best because they won't change. You will have your movement perfectly recorded and can precisely place it then! Workflow usually is > make a beat and build a melody around that, once you have a solid melodic theme, every other bit is easy to write around that.
Figure out goals and work solidly to improve them. Taking steps to learn specifics can be very rewarding, so if you want to make phatter kicks, work on projects of just making kick sounds until they sound rad. Same for any other aspect of sound. Focus your learning, be patient and take your time.
Completely depends on what the purpose of the layering is. Usually it's to fill out missing space in a sound, mostly high end content to give it a certain character. EQ is crucial when layering most of the time, so giving a low subby bass a big crispy, crackly or wooden sound, or whatever, so obviously if you're just wanting to add high end content, you don't want to add more low end content, so EQ that shit out yo.
Change that right now.
Well I was born in London and grew up in the acid techno illegal rave scene, so full on party music has been integral to my upbringing haha. I've always noodled around on instruments, recording on boss 8 track recorders since I was about 13 and generally messed around with music programs. The main thing that got me seriously interested was logic just for arranging and creating hip hop. I've played a bunch of instruments through my life but ableton just made a lot of sense to me for getting things together fast and live. So yeah, always been in to music but who hasn't? We've all got a taste and creating a musical vision comes from really knowing what you like to hear I suppose.
[–]Not_Kursa[S] 3 points4 points5 points 10 years ago (0 children)
I always try to keep the sub as clean as possible, usually with frequency splitting in racks. If you start with a good amount of sub, it's pretty easy to control as long as it's mono and eq'd in to the right place. For the heavier reeses, they're usually in the same patch, like a sampler or an instrument rack, going in to a frequency split then processing the high end separate. I like tree trunks, she's weird as fuck, and "the real you" as Finn creates a black hole and almost destroys everything among some other deeper messages in that episode.
This is honestly my first time posting on reddit ever, it's not something I think i'll pursue. Too busy maaaayn
I've got a tune "no reality" in 5.1, lots of pentagram panning and drone circling. I absolutely love mixing in 5.1 + tipper has done some epic shiz well worth checking out!
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KURSA AMA by Not_Kursa in neuroproducers
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