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Advice for making beefier/fatter sounding soft synth sounds
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 6:21 am
by liveISlife
Any advice on how to pump up the sound of soft synths and really get them sizzling would be much appreciated
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 7:15 am
by meantown
Send them through a guitar amplifier. Depends on the sound and what your looking for. Consider if you've ever a heard the sound of an electric guitar recorded direct before it goes to an amplifier you can see it does a lot to make an enhanced sound.
You haven't lived until you've heard your Synth orchestra patch through a Marshall stack.
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 7:18 am
by sweetjesus
i find most synths are pretty dope these days.. it's down to how u mix it!
edit: what vsti's are u trying to get good sounds from?
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 7:32 am
by timothyallan
Program them better
Re: Advice for making beefier/fatter sounding soft synth sou
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 8:25 am
by Olga
liveISlife wrote:Any advice on how to pump up the sound of soft synths and really get them sizzling would be much appreciated
http://www.analoguehaven.com/jomox/mresonator/
Re: Advice for making beefier/fatter sounding soft synth sou
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 8:28 am
by sweetjesus
nah dont think that will do much
i ran a few VSTi's through my voyagers filters, compared it to Vminion and in some instances Auto Filter in Live.. fuck-all difference.
its ur patches and how theyre used in ur mix that makes more difference than voodoo boxes.
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 8:29 am
by 8O
I like the angle on that photo - carefully positioned so that it says "Anal Filter Chine"
Sorry, am being particularly childish today - too much coffee...
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 8:54 am
by furrybum
8O wrote:I like the angle on that photo - carefully positioned so that it says "Anal Filter Chine"
Sorry, am being particularly childish today - too much coffee...
Re: Advice for making beefier/fatter sounding soft synth sou
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 8:56 am
by Olga
sweetjesus wrote:
nah dont think that will do much
i ran a few VSTi's through my voyagers filters, compared it to Vminion and in some instances Auto Filter in Live.. fuck-all difference.
its ur patches and how theyre used in ur mix that makes more difference than voodoo boxes.
Well there is one box that will do what he's asking for sure, but its waaaaay out of price range for most.
http://www.analoguehaven.com/schippmann/ebbeundflut/
Friend of mine has this thing and it can make even the weakest source material sound like a massive analog modular. But lots and lots of money.
Listen to this MP3 & how it takes this weak little digital synth and what it does to it. As for beefier fatter, I don't think you can get much better.
http://www.schippmann-music.com/downloads/Funk_1.mp3
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 9:15 am
by furrybum
Pulse modulator by audio damage works well I think. I use it on bass patches and it makes the sound massive. Works great on 303 type sounds especially
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 9:17 am
by Tohtruck
8O wrote:I like the angle on that photo - carefully positioned so that it says "Anal Filter Chine"
Sorry, am being particularly childish today - too much coffee...
In case you're sifting for gold in your shit.
Re: Advice for making beefier/fatter sounding soft synth sou
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 9:47 am
by barry tone
fuck me that sounds amzing!
are there any cheaper soft equivalents that are (even half) as good?
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 10:53 am
by ashtonron
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 12:39 pm
by liveISlife
word brothers. im using massive, zebra 2, rapture, operator. i mean some of the patches are pretty dam fat and amazing sounding but i like to make my own sounds from scratch. so any tips on how to get a fatter/beffness sound that way would be cool. i guess if u like detune the oscillators u get a fatter sound. anywho thx 4 the info so far
o yeah i want to get the arturia synths. i peeped the demo's and those shits r crazy sounding
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 12:49 pm
by polyslax
What about the Sherman Filterbank?