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Thin sounds => fat sounds?
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| BetaFactory |
Hi,
I wonder if there's any general formula for fx:ing those thin sounds to something sounding more "fat"? The question is as easy as that. Will the answer be as easy? :)
Some kind of compressing perhaps? |
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| DJ-Fuq |
| What type of sounds? For synths eq, layering, chorus, good use of reverb and delay, compression, those analogue plugins, and most importantly detune. |
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| Sonicstyle |
| and a fat flanger. the flanger mostly is the plugin that lets your vst sound big |
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| hey cheggy |
| Unison & delay |
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| Sloouh |
Ok, the fat sound seems to come from the effect of multiple instruments playing, so I quite often start with chorus/unison, then maybe flange or phazer, of course it will sound fatter if you've detuned one of the synth ocs and layered the synth, then delay and reverb can be matched before finaly eqing.
Thats the kindof technique I use with varying degrees of success. |
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| MrCowski |
For FL, put the Flanger on the FX channel and use the preset "Ultra fat chorus".
That and layering. |
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| BetaFactory |
Thank you all who answered. I'll take those things in mind next time I get to work with my lead melody. Hopefully I'll succeed in making it sound more "broad" and "fat" than by default.
However, could someone describe (briefly) what that layering really is about? I would appreciate it a lot, as I'm not 100% sure if my understanding of layering is the "real" meaning of that word. :) |
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| DJ-Fuq |
| quote: | Originally posted by BetaFactory
Thank you all who answered. I'll take those things in mind next time I get to work with my lead melody. Hopefully I'll succeed in making it sound more "broad" and "fat" than by default.
However, could someone describe (briefly) what that layering really is about? I would appreciate it a lot, as I'm not 100% sure if my understanding of layering is the "real" meaning of that word. :) |
Playing different synths at the same time, or playing the same thing with the same synth but on different octaves, or playing chords. |
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| BetaFactory |
| So you mean playing the same melody the same time with different presets/synths etc? |
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| dbl |
| quote: | Originally posted by BetaFactory
So you mean playing the same melody the same time with different presets/synths etc? |
yepp |
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| MrCowski |
Usually layering involves changing the detune settings, both micro and macro. Often i'd have say:
one synth: detune -10, +10 Octave +0
identical synth: detune +20, -20, Octave +1 |
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