Hey,

I was wondering if anyone could help me with how to create a specific sound. I’m trying to get a muffled distortion sound/effect similar to this (watch the video. The snare distortion, and clicking distortion on the kicks, etc…). I’ve tried gating my samples, crushing them, adding a distortion filter but can’t seem to get even close to the same results.

Any help would be great, maybe something you use to get a similar result; filters, plugins?

Thanks!
- Luke

Wow - beats me! It’s a nice effect, sounds like distortion which is then super-compressed/limited. I’d guess a “bit-crusher” might sound like this if you then fed it through an effects chain (as above). I dunno. It kinda sounds like a cool mistake too, the sort of error you get when you digitally overdrive too far and then compress it back down again.

Never heard any one plugin sound like this….

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Update! :) I just created something similar using the mda VST pack (see here http://ccmixter.org/media/t... )

mda degrade - mda overdrive - mda bandisto

I still think it needs limiting/compressing and EQing, you’ll need some elongated drum sounds too.

There’s a lot of processing in that track! …tis nice though :)

yea I agree there is a lot of processing there. I can’t think of a single plugin that gets that sound “as is.” The snare sounds like all the bottom (everything below 1000Hz) is simply chopped off and I’m almost sure the kick is more than one kick mixed together, one for the boom, one for the click. Hope that helps.

i don’t know if this helps, but what i did to get the sound on my kicks herei used a regular 808 kick drum, then in fruity loops i put two fast dist channels and left the knobs alone. then i used a regular (not multiband) compressor on the set setting, and like tacet said “accidently” it sounded like this..
(ps. i tryed it on reason and it did not work at all)

Well here is like an hour after tinkering around. It’s somewhat close (at least compared to what I’ve done in the past).

Experiemental Pack

I’ll need to work on it some more, but it’s getting there.

Well I found out what he uses mainly. It’s Izotope’s Trash. Pretty easy to use, but hella expensive. $200 for a plugin! You’ll hear the results I came up with in my latest remix. (If I can finish it before the 10 day trial is over :P)