Effects and Techniques for a Good House Stab?

Night Spirit · Post by **Night Spirit** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 12:21 am

Wondering what effects are commonly (or uncommonly) used to get that house keyboard stab effect. I know about gating, reverb and delay, but there is a certain ffat sound to a lot of stabs I hear that I havent been able to replicate. Also if there are any plugins that work better for house stabs Id love to hear about them. i would appreciate any input. Thanks!

jamos · Post by **jamos** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 2:21 pm

grab some phat sounding disco , funk loops and slice them to midi, usually get some great stabs out of that.

Night Spirit · Post by **Night Spirit** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 1:40 am

thanks. Im more looking for synthesis techniques rather than sampling.

kraze · Post by **kraze** » Fri Jun 13, 2008 12:30 pm

Load up an analog style lead in a synth. Start with it in unison with as many voices as possible and utilize all oscillators (one main and detuning/octavizing the others). Play around with Decay, Sustain and Release until you're satisfied and sprinkle with some slow modulation. Then use pitch envelopes to pitch down the tail.

Pro-53 is great for this with it's analouge-style unison mode, but alot of people get stunning results with Operator.

Mr Lager · Post by **Mr Lager** » Fri Jun 13, 2008 12:51 pm

Not much knowledge about house stabs ..
but to get the stabs you create in your synth sounding full and fat look towards layering (to add weight) > compressing these layers together and utilising filter automation.
Saturator is a good tool for adding presence
..another technique is to duplicate the audio of you stab - hard pan 1 left and the right then route to another audio track to record or render - this fills out the sound and adds a bit more width

Night Spirit · Post by **Night Spirit** » Fri Jun 13, 2008 4:42 pm

I'll give those techniques a shot. Thanks!

dankusCDW · Post by **dankusCDW** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 6:41 am

Phaser. Make sure it's set deep and wide, and so that it sweeps all the way during the duration of the stab.

Night Spirit · Post by **Night Spirit** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 2:56 pm