Reply To: ABIS – Q&A
ABIS // Mark[quote quote=123993]yes I really enjoyed and like to see that it takes hard work to get these self made sounds to work… what is your approach on basses and mid synths I guess do you take the same approach or whats your go-to synth nowadays I’ve been messing with phase plant made some really weird patches lol[/quote]
My go-to synth is Serum. I still have an affection for FM8 but it was released 13 years ago and has kinda lost traction in the market with newer products with better features. I demoed phase plant a few months back and really enjoyed it, so I’ll have to purchase that soon and dive deeper into it.
But I think making basses is prob my weakest production skill. It’s something which I kind of dread, mainly because for me, it’s so hit and miss. I’ll normally set aside a few days to just make bass patches and it can happen that after three days of trying, I’m left with nothing ha 🙂 It can be a bit of a confidence rollercoaster. But I love making reeces and still doing it the old fashioned way with de-tuning, using phasers/filters pre-distortion etc.. They are super fun to make but sometimes a nightmare to mixdown in your track, due to the movement and phase aligning with your drum elements. Distortion is also pretty important, and my favs’s are: Trash, Creative Intent Trantrum, NI Guitar Rig, Amplitube, Ohmicide, Melda Waveshaper, Nick Crow Lab Tube driver. Filtering can also help create movement. I always like to do this mainly pre-distortion and my fav’s are: Serum Filters, Camelphat, Automating any EQ, Phasers & Vocoders (Ableton and FL have great stock ones) and just anything you can get your hands on.