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...

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Distortion/Overdrive

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

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a recent favourite: the bitcrusher

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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.

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Cheers guys, really helpful

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

That Karnage is excellent mate, thanks!

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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.

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

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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