squarepusher How Do I Make That Skrillex Bass

  On 2/4/2012 at 2:36 PM, pissflaps said:

You really must be a total ignorant sound production wise to simply call the sound on Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites "just playing around with Massive on 5 minutes".

Who said this? This thread wasn't made to clown on skrillex, it was honestly because for a while there you couldn't go to a music forum without these types of threads everywhere

  On 2/4/2012 at 7:43 PM, Audioblysk said:

  On 2/4/2012 at 2:36 PM, pissflaps said:

You really must be a total ignorant sound production wise to simply call the sound on Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites "just playing around with Massive on 5 minutes". There is a reason why there is a million people trying to get that sound posting Youtube tutorials and no one got there. I don't care how this guy made a "more or less, similar" sound. The bass-thing on SMANS is extremely complex, sounds huge, and the modulations are amazing. It certainly doesn't sound like Massive and more like modular synthesis processed with who knows what. This is why if anyone on here tried to replicate that sound for educational purposes would misserably fail and realize it's not as easy.

 

Have you seen the fuckton of massive patches geared towards his sound that sound EXACTLY like him? If he truely is the only one working on his music, then I have said it before and will say it again, he is a talented dude and is really trying to make dubstep the next wave of Nu-Metal, so good for him...

 

MAy not take 5 minutes, but anyone who's geared to make fwudstep and puts their heads to it can achieve his sounds in massive by either tweaking free online presets or reverse engineering from ones that are already made and making your own... just ask the ocean of bro-step producers that did it before and after he released that album lol. The hundreds of randos with WAREZ programs trying to show you how to make his shit on ableton with a million formants, phasers and operator will fail, because they don't know the tools he uses. Again, not saying its easy, but out of the bro-steppers, he isn't even the one with the coolest sound IMO.

I've seen those patches, they all sound cheap compared to the synth on Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites. Im not talking about other tunes but that one. In other tracks it sounds more like it could be done on Massive, but the synth on SMANS is something more. Tell me what patches you think sound EXACTLY like that. Dropping Modern Talking and automating the knob is not enough.

If Skrillex is actually making his own music, I really don't mind him. He probably spends days working on those songs. In fact, I don't even mind his music, and I'm one of the most pretentious music listeners ever.

Honestly the whole subject is a bit of a laugh to be honest.

I could give or take his music tbh, don't like it, don't especially hate it, just not remotely interested either way. The whole hating thing is quite remarkable though. maybe here in the UK that scene isn't quite so in yer face as in the states.

I just think its so unrelated to any part of the electronic music scene that I am interested in, not worth considering for a moment. There have been loads of commercially successful electronic music artists, and why so many people have taken a particularly strong dislike for Skillex is kinda baffling.

As for the sound design stuff.. Well it's far from impressive tbh, someone mentioned modular synths somewhere, I doubt that very much.

it probably isn't simply a case of bashing massive for 5 mins, but things like multiband distortions, bite rate reduction and stuff. There's Definately massive sounds, but with effects and some programming for sure. Still, it's not exactly like he pioneered that type of sound, there are a lot of artists who've been making that kinda patch for quite a while before skrillex came along. Similarly there have been massive patch packs which have those kinda sounds in a while before skrillex came along.

Who knows really how much production and sound design the guys does? My bet, not all of it, but really I'm not fussed. there are countless other musicians who's music, production, sound design grabs me far more than skrillex.

it's funny though, the only reason I ever heard of the guy was from hearing so many people hate on him. No such thing as bad publicity I suppose

I was actually trying to figure this out last week and I couldn't do it. Then again, I don't have Massive and I don't quite yet feel like it's worth the moral detriment for me to pirate it.

There's nothing wrong with imitating interesting sounds. That's a good way to learn new tricks. It's not lame until you start releasing tracks that sound exactly like the person you're imitating and don't try to do anything new with what you learn.

  On 11/17/2011 at 6:02 AM, TechDiff said:

I think the best way to make skrillex type bass sounds is to download the industrial strength massive patch packs, load up massive, select a patch and slap your bell end against the keyboard.

 

Drums is slightly trickier, you need to download the industrial strength drum sample packs, load them into a sampler and then loop them.

 

what I'd like to know is how to sound like Christopher Walken, his voice is amazing but I haven't managed to find a massive patch pack for it yet :(

be sure to boost your massive patch around 9khz for that grating sound.

those types of threads are pretty weird to me,

i mean part of the fun is figuring out for yourself.

His patches could have the complexity of key hole surgery but that wouldn't change the fact that it's just horrible shit and hes a gigantic cunt.

  On 2/6/2012 at 6:44 PM, Fraxinus said:

His patches could have the complexity of key hole surgery but that wouldn't change the fact that it's just horrible shit and hes a gigantic cunt.

Good god, take it down a notch man.

  On 2/6/2012 at 3:11 PM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

skrillho's

^^^ wow, thats a deep simpsons gem, isn't that when milhouse is playing Bonestorm? Lol. Nice

anyone who can finagle a million dollars out of people with music has my respect

  On 2/7/2012 at 9:17 AM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

indeed it is! a moment i'm sure we're all familiar with though, right? i was totally raised on the simpsons - during the classic era too. because of this i just assume that everyone is also as obsessed with it as i am.

I keep getting surprised how everyone else isn't as well versed with classic simpsons, and keep getting weird looks from people who don't get the reference. There's a classic quote in there for every imaginable occasion.

How can you imagine someone else is making his music? You really think people would invest on some untalented kid with a crappy image thats needs 20 noose jobs and 200 litters of pimple cream on his face to look good? Thats would be too much time and effort on someone that doesnt deserve it. If someone else did his music he would take the credits for sure, and if not immediatelly, everyone would know after some time. Those kind of secrets always come out. The only thing I could come up to that would be if he had rich parents.