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Posted by Semirk on Aug-31-2005 22:42:

Making it dirty

Hey,

I understand this is a bit of a general question but does anyone have any tips on how make a track sound quite dirty in it's structure? Dirty basslines intrigue me more than anything. Any small tips would be great.

Don't have any specific examples at the moment but if I'm being too general I can come back with some.

Thanks

Posted by DigiNut on Aug-31-2005 23:54:

Distortion. And lots of dissonant interval progressions, like tritones or minor seconds.

There is no dirty structure, just dirty sounds. Personally, I think the dirty concept is being taken to a bit of an extreme these days - it can sound really cool and get everyone moving at a club when used as a contrast against a musically rich backdrop, but when an entire track or entire SET is just dirty, well...

Posted by Frase on Sep-01-2005 00:05:

Distortion/Overdrive

Posted by DjGeMiNi529 on Sep-01-2005 08:33:

wats an example of a track that has this "dirty" sound

Posted by Pjotr G on Sep-01-2005 09:00:

a recent favourite: the bitcrusher

Posted by {b.s.e.} on Sep-01-2005 13:01:

drop whatever synth you want dirty an octave, and remove the higher notes from your melody, add distortion and bass/overdrive/compress, add another synth playing the same (or varied) melody in original octave, without notes removed, add slight distortion, to taste.

Posted by Semirk on Sep-01-2005 16:40:

Cheers guys, really helpful

Posted by CallOutTheDogs on Sep-01-2005 21:22:

A good distortion VST is Karnage, it has some really good sounds like distorted pads and basslines

Posted by Semirk on Sep-01-2005 22:05:

That Karnage is excellent mate, thanks!

Posted by DigiNut on Sep-01-2005 22:29:

quote:
Originally posted by Pjotr G
a recent favourite: the bitcrusher

Yes. Uber-funky effect is to use the bitcrusher as a low-pass filter, too.

Oh, and I forgot the most important thing:
TC SONIC DESTRUCTOR! I *heart* that thing. One of the things it has is what they call a "bitter", which seems to be kind of a bit randomizer - it randomly flips certain bits in the signal and just makes it totally nasty and lo-fi. Gotta be careful with it though because too much of that might give the listener a heart attack, or at the very least a throbbing headache.

Posted by TranceReality on Sep-03-2005 20:15:

On top of the distortion and overdrive etc.....try adding record crackle and hiss with cubase "grungulizer" or simalar.

Posted by Semirk on Sep-03-2005 22:58:

quote:
Originally posted by TranceReality
On top of the distortion and overdrive etc.....try adding record crackle and hiss with cubase "grungulizer" or simalar.

Thats a good idea also but I dont use cubase so are there are vsts which would be compatible with fruity for this kind of sound?

Thanks

Posted by itsamemario on Sep-05-2005 18:46:

quote:
Originally posted by Pjotr G
a recent favourite: the bitcrusher

+1

Posted by paulc_dj on Dec-07-2005 03:17:

quote:
Originally posted by Pjotr G
a recent favourite: the bitcrusher

What is the best bitcrusher VST, preferrably free?

PC

Posted by jojimbo1 on Dec-07-2005 04:16:

quote:
Originally posted by DJ Balti
Thats a good idea also but I dont use cubase so are there are vsts which would be compatible with fruity for this kind of sound?

Thanks

Izotope Vinyl. It'll recreate that scratchy vinyl sound, it's got tons of parameters and its free!

Posted by superddman on Dec-07-2005 05:31:

great example of a good dirty track is Rank-1 - Top Gear. I love that track.