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| djyouth |
What is your opinion on the ever increasing use of white noise as fill in drops or choruses of EDM tracks?
I'm hearing them sidechained, but also used layered with the kick in place of rides.
It's basically just noise. Makes sense to me now that old people call EDM noisy music..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOevVQwQ-LM
So what do you think? Is it effective or talentless? Any good alternatives? |
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| Looney4Clooney |
| what is a crash or ride overly compressed. pretty much the same. yes it is overdone. Trends.... |
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| Trancelover03591 |
| White noise fills out the high frequencies. It can be used for sweeps down and up, as part of a synth to fill out the high frequencies (like a supersaw), as a hihat as you point out, as well as other uses. I think it can add energy especially in tracks that are more drop oriented. It can be used more subtly in deep and progressive structured tracks. |
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| sako487 |
White noise makes everything sound better
Muddies up the mix if you don't low/high cut just right though |
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| LoveHate |
| It instantly makes any song about 5 times better. |
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| Rodri Santos |
white noise is a good tool for arrangements and almost a must in a drop. May be a trend but kick + bass + sidechained white noise is all you need to keep people dancing after a good build up. It's a bit overused now with some tracks using it every 8 bars but it's helpful.
You can achieve an interesting sound by having a noise form on an oscillator not many producers do this buy sometimes it sounds good and different. |
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| Lith |
Is it more or less cool that I heard that first track at a Subway this week?
I think of white noise in this context like a flexible percussive sound. Sometimes it's cool, sometimes it sounds like every other song you've heard (think certain hi hats and crashes).
People will keep dancing even if you don't have white noise, you just give a fiver to the guy that controls the smoke machine, sounds the same :) |
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| Evolve140 |
| quote: | Originally posted by djyouth
What is your opinion on the ever increasing use of white noise as fill in drops or choruses of EDM tracks?
I'm hearing them sidechained, but also used layered with the kick in place of rides.
It's basically just noise. Makes sense to me now that old people call EDM noisy music..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOevVQwQ-LM
So what do you think? Is it effective or talentless? Any good alternatives? |
Like with a lot of things in EDM, it's easily abused. I love me some good white noise though, especialy with nice filtering and sweeping and energy control with the arrangement. You'll find a lot of producers who lack talent using it in place of actual music content though. I don't really use it because I produce house and it's just not as common, because I focus more on groove and substance than cheesy over done effects and things like white noise.
Either way, it has a certain sonic quality that makes it pretty appealing for bringing energy into a mix and is crucial to a lot of arrangements and genres.
Try making a patch with white noise and another osc like a square or something, great for trippy ass wind ups and things like that, plus white noise in half of the osc mix is really good for giving your synth (plucks especially) tinge and pop. |
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| mistermerlin |
| gated white noise is the ING BOMB BRO. this is the single reason why trance is not ty any more |
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| lentej |
| White noise is so good you don't need a kick drum. |
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| DjStephenWiley |
I love it because its very versatile. You can put it in any frequency range when mixing and it will almost always sound good which is wonderful. It also doesn't seem to clash a lot with other sounds you may have within its frequency which helps to make the mix sound better. I've been applying a heavy flanger and FX to different types of white noise (hi-hat, sweep, etc) and I believe it sounds good
It can be overdone though and almost always sounds bad when you've got it coming from different sources |
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