Nowadays the drums are all knocky and sound like hitting blocks of wood, the bass sounds I commonly hear now are that annoying distorted phasey sine-wave that sounds like metalic screeching, with heavy compression (OTT lol.) and those brightly over-layered supersaw major 7th chords.
I remember when it was all anaologue, modular sequencers beeping, and drum machines.
It feels like now everything is done kind of lazy with the same Cymatics presets and every big name in EDM all have the same style similar sounds. Even when they Aren't on the same label, they have ridiculously similar bass sounds.
Submitted October 28, 2016 at 09:36AM by 9000Proof https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/59u5y9/lets_discuss_how_much_sound_trends_have_evolved/?utm_source=ifttt