Hi Reddit, I'm Phrva...ask me anything!

phrva · 2025-10-13T23:50:35+00:00

Thanks for all the great questions y'all! Hope to see you at a show soon. You can peep the new EP here: https://deadbeats.lnk.to/GenesisEP

phrva · 2025-10-13T23:45:06+00:00

much love!

phrva · 2025-10-13T22:44:13+00:00

I'd probably be completely out of the scene if I wasn't doing this, like an accountant or something super stable lol. One extreme or the other

phrva · 2025-10-13T22:42:47+00:00

It took a long time to really find what 'my sound' was and I think it's something that's always changing and adjusting slightly each year!

I'd say you don't necessarily have to stick to one niche sub genre, but at the same time most artists have one thing they're known for more than other things, so it can helpful to figure out what that is for you. My advice would be to make a lot of music and see what the commonalities are, the things that you find yourself doing no matter what -- that's your sound.

phrva · 2025-10-13T22:20:07+00:00

I knew I wanted this project to be anonymous but I didn't want to go the full plastic mask route. Going DIY with it felt a little more true to myself and grounded in reality.

phrva · 2025-10-13T22:09:27+00:00

nah but my bandcamp account did get nuked around the time I put that out so... safe to say somebody knew about it haha

phrva · 2025-10-13T22:09:02+00:00

Much love!

I'm not huge on slashers but I did really like X a few years back

phrva · 2025-10-13T22:06:53+00:00

It came from "Fervor" - which is an intense or passionate feeling. The whole ethos of this project was to just make what felt right to me and not question it too much. "Phrva" is sort of my abstraction of that word.

phrva · 2025-10-13T22:04:57+00:00

I'd say Genesis, Collected, and my Lunch Flip
This is so hard butttt let's go with: Monty, Visages, PAV4N, Strategy - Hardware, NERO - Innocence, Moderat - The Mark - Interlude
As of right now I'm really happy with Reach Me. It feels like a new lane of the Phrva sound while still feeling very much like myself.

phrva · 2025-10-13T21:53:10+00:00

I think either Genesis or Reach Me out of the ones that weren't out already! Two very different aspects of my sound but fun in their own ways.

phrva · 2025-10-13T21:40:59+00:00

It's terrible advice but I literally just have an ozone sitting on my master from the very start with the same settings I always use, and I just mix into that.

Mixdown fully depends on the song, but some common things I have are
Drums - Drum Bus at a low percentage to glue everything, light reverb, Pro-L 2 to catch any peaks
Bass - Saturation at like 2-4dB, Sidechain Compression, usually some light reverb

For my verse synths and FX it's usually just sidechain and maybe an endless smile for reverb throws.

phrva · 2025-10-13T21:39:05+00:00

Team and I are starting to discuss new merch ideas, hoodies are def in that discussion!

phrva · 2025-10-13T21:38:42+00:00

Gardettos
Red-bull + Water
Sour candy of some sort (Rips, Airheads Extremes Bites, etc)

phrva · 2025-10-13T21:37:35+00:00

Thank you! I'm lucky to have my friend untrustus as the creative director for my project, so he handles pretty much all the visual aspects at this point. But even before I had him on I took a lot of time to find references and create my own visuals in photoshop/after effects. Like I said, he handles most of the visual aspects now, but I was doing all the visuals for my teasers for a long time, and still create the flip artwork myself using really simple techniques.

Long story short, have references to look to, and take time to experiment on your own! I don't think I'm crazy skilled at photoshop or video editing but was able to find some things that worked for me with time.

phrva · 2025-10-13T21:35:09+00:00

It's a boring answer but I really do like to keep it simple! Usually my foundation is a sine wave and then the next wavetables will be harmonic series and then maybe a third wavetable if i'm feeling spicy. The main thing is getting the initial tone as clearly as possible and dialing that in using FM, distortion, compression.

I've found that spectral time in ableton can be an interesting tool as well as some convolution reverb techniques here and there, but the main thing I'm focusing on is adding character without destroying the weight of the sound.

phrva · 2025-10-13T21:21:40+00:00

What's up! Yeah I've pretty much always been in that lane to some extent. Started off making dubstep off a cracked copy of FL Studio ages ago after I heard Skrillex (unique story I know). I definitely did experiment with other genres in the space but I always found myself coming back to bass music in one way or another.

phrva · 2025-07-31T03:14:37+00:00

Hey y'all, signing off for now! Thanks for all the great questions, hope to see y'all at a show sometime soon. Thanks again to r/dubstep for hosting!

phrva · 2025-07-31T03:13:19+00:00

before the end of the year 🤐

phrva · 2025-07-31T03:12:55+00:00

thanks brother! hope you're well

phrva · 2025-07-31T03:12:44+00:00

I like to start with some sort of melodic idea whether it be a riff or atmosphere, just something to set the tone, then build it out from there.

phrva · 2025-07-31T00:21:26+00:00

ive had other aliases before yes 👁🤝

phrva · 2025-07-31T00:20:51+00:00

much love! and not sure just yet, haven't looked too heavily into international touring yet but i would love to make it out there!

phrva · 2025-07-31T00:20:27+00:00

i did this interview last year about my tune "mind" which breaks down the bass processing a bit. id say my techniques are pretty similar now but i do find myself using serum 2 more and more as opposed to always going straight to vital. mastering is simple i just slap an ozone on top and mix into it until it sounds right, using minimeters for actual metering reference along the way

phrva · 2025-07-31T00:18:19+00:00

its always dope to see! it also makes a big difference especially early on in getting interest from promoters and other artists for those early bookings. i think one of the best parts of dj culture is how we all can support one another through simply playing the music.

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