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Ways to bring in a lead?
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| kadomony |
I have a lead that sounds a bit different in tone from the hook. Right now I have a few "lead-in" notes before the lead begins to sort of introduce it after the hook. It works, but could be smoother, imo.
Do you have any good ways to introduce a semi-contrasting lead? If necessary I could use a sweep-crash to transition, but I feel I already have enough of those transitions in the track.
Thanks for any input! |
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| clay |
| mute everything in the bar before you plan to get it going. put on a reversed wav of the leadline in the empty bar - preferably with some efex on it (distortion, left-right panning, phasor, anything to separate it from the actuall lead but still recognizable). its called a transition and is what makes making music really ing fun. the unexpected. transitions is everything imo. |
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| skyhunter |
| quote: | Originally posted by clay
mute everything in the bar before you plan to get it going. put on a reversed wav of the leadline in the empty bar - preferably with some efex on it (distortion, left-right panning, phasor, anything to separate it from the actuall lead but still recognizable). its called a transition and is what makes making music really ing fun. the unexpected. transitions is everything imo. |
Showtek does this. |
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| kadomony |
Wow, that is actually working perfectly! Thanks :D
Keep some more options coming if you have them, want to try a few more ideas if possible. |
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| clay |
| use a 80is poodle-rock drumloop in the muted part lol. layer another one of the same loop only 50% speed (only half of the bar will be used then). add a ugly noise from something completely different. |
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| skyhunter |
| Try putting a vocal sample from Vengeance that says "BASS!!!" in the silence too. |
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| J.L. |
| When in doubt, use vengeance |
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| skyhunter |
| quote: | Originally posted by J.L.
When in doubt, use vengeance |
That's how we do it xD |
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| evo8 |
| quote: | Originally posted by kadomony
Wow, that is actually working perfectly! Thanks :D
Keep some more options coming if you have them, want to try a few more ideas if possible. |
maybe use the reversed reverb thing - play some of the lead into a very long reverb tail - then reverse the reverbed part and play it just before the lead comes in - dont know how well it would work in this case but you could try it and see its fairly quick to do |
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| sleeping |
| a trick i use from time to time is to use a huge reverb on the part i want to introduce, render it to a wav. Then import it and reverse it. Then cut it right where the tone begins. Will make a cool attackish effect |
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| clay |
| it has been said 3 times already :D |
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