Friendly greetings !
I do a lot of experimental music, I'm interested in "inventing" technique. Or most probably reinventing : Invent something only to find out it was already invented 20 years before i did it.
I'd like to share some technique and hoping you'll share some too.
Gated reverb :
- put a reverb on an insert
- add a noise gate behind it so the volume drop to 0 when it get below some set level.
- Works well on drum and give a sense of wide powerful drum
- can become unaturally interesting when the gate level is high
Gated doubling :
- copy a track, shift it just a little bit
- add a gate on the copied track so it only play above a certain level.
- the track will only "open" when you have some powerful stuff in it, enhancing futher the sense of power
- repeatable with a 2nd copy and an even higher gate thresold
- beware of phasing issue.
add a pure white noise track :
- When mastering, the white noise track will give a real hearing sense (instead of mostly visual) of what the master compressor do
record your speakers :
- kind of silly, but i love it
- have a bunch of microphone recording your speaker from different location
- Proximity effect with microphone near the speakers
- Reverb with microphone far from it
- you can work with them in L/R pair to enchance (or ruin) stereo depth
- Beware : strong phase cancellation issue are expected
- i suggest highly directional microphone (PS : i love the NTG serie shotgun mic)
- tips : experiment with feedback too
sidechained inverted track :
- mostly interesting with rythmic melody (eg : piano)
- copy a track, reverse it
- lower its volume
- compress it with a sidechain from the original (non-inverted) track, with a low release time.
- it will give you some kind of creepy inverted echo that do no obstruct the original
- it's difficult to explain so here is a sample : https://clyp.it/jilz0bvz
love the white noise :
- white noise is amazing.
- eg : white noise + ADSR + high pass filter : you got a hihat or a cymbal
buy hardware :
- it's crazy, but sometime the "real" hardware solution can cost less than its VST emulation
- old analog mixing console are dirt cheap, it's crazy. And they (can) have very good pre-amp, EQ, compressor, overdrive.
- given enough I/O you can get your track out of the DAW to the console and back in the DAW without creating a feedback loop. And use all the EQ/insert/... associated with it.
- Or use an external recorded to record the output : DAW -> console -> recorder. then import the recording back in the DAW
If you have some secret you're kind enough to share, please do. If you want to keep your secret for you, that's totally fine by me.
And always keep this in mind : change the process to change the outcome.
Except ... Sometimes doing the same thing a second time when it hasn’t worked the first is indeed just foolish. But sometimes it’s shrewd. Wisdom consists, in part, in knowing the difference. Flexibility is a virtue. But in most matters, flexibility properly kicks in only after persistence has been given a fair chance.
Submitted August 25, 2017 at 07:56AM by ker2x https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/6vxpe0/collection_of_newold_production_trick/?utm_source=ifttt