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    Psy Basslines with u-he Zebra 2

    in Music Making and Production/Industry

    Posted

    I cant say for Zebra but I found Sylenth1 the easiest and i used it in my last 10 or so... I think you should try it... here is something from my experience and how i do basses :) As for U-He i heard Diva is superb, you should try that one too!

     

     

    Making good envelope and both phases (saw + sine for sub), detuning and adding stereo if needed (remember to put bellow 100 hz in mono!!) then i start with after processing in the mixer:

    - Fabfilter Saturn to add saturation, make attack/click up... sometimes i add up to 10dB of high freqs depends of sound i want to achive... someone use Quadrafuzz like Talpa but both are great... or you can just use high boost/high shelfing but with Saturn i feel like i can do it more precisely

    - Oxford Dynamics compresor - Using expander and compressor to cut the peaks...

    - Fabfilter Pro-Q - cuting low end with 12-24 dB at 30-35Hz... again depends of the sound and how it fits with rest of the track

    - LFO tool - sidechaining every 1/16th of the bass so there are no notes overlaping... few ms break between notes which you cant really clearly hear, but bass will be much more rolling that way
     

    NOTE: after and fine processing i do once track is done, channels and group well balanced... 

    This is based on my taste and some advices from very skilled and respected artists. Its up to you :)

     

    But to have good bass you have to have good kick, that fits with bass or opposite. Remember: less is more! Cutting sometimes is better than boosting

     

     

    As i do Goa trance i love to soften/put down mids so i can have melodies dominant in mid range without interupting too much with bassline, same way i put down high on melodies and i put up highs on bass so its still cutting trough and sound rolling.

     

     

    Many people want to make super good bass from begging of track and want them to sound so phat and rolling with just kick-bass loop. First of all make a 'solid' bass, make track, mix properly and then at last going trough mix 'fix' the bass and thats what you should aim to. To sound top with everything else, not just soloed :)

     

     

    To have idea how those Sylenth1 basses sound like, check samples in here - all made with Sylenth1:

    https://www.suntriprecords.com/release/cat/SUNCD44/

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    Imba - First Encounter [Suntrip Rec.]

    in Artist News and Labels announcements

    Posted

    So, @Imba, what are your next plans? You've stated in an earlier post on facebook, that after this album you want to focus on another kind of trance and experience with Psytrance (and 130 bpm). Do you have any new information about that?

     

     

    I am trying everything but i am limited with time as i have normal job just like everyone at this time... there are loads of plans and even EP for BMSS but probably next year. Also there is Goa trance EP in progress. Too much plans pure madness, hopefuly i will finish at least something ahaha

    Did MFG ever take drugs?

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    Human capability to feel the music or artistic creativity, it doesn't matter, what matters the most that we can enjoy the great music no matter the fact is someone using certain substances.

     

    Some of best music came from artists who never even tried alchohol... or anything else and i know some...

     

    Pure briliance and true power of human mind! :)

    Future Frequency - Freakuencies [Nano Rec.]

    in Artist News and Labels announcements

    Posted

    This is just slow(er) full-on without any degree of nuance or subtlety, just like Astral Projection's slowed down version of goa tunes weren't ambient for me...

     

    This is just another commercial prog made for Brazil and Mexico scene and $$$$$$$ they pay there. If you listen carefuly you can hear everything was made by patterns used by zillion artists before.

     

     

    Fullon is quite melodic and emo, its not predictable as prog, structure and build of tracks are smiliar to Goa Trance. Difference is huge:

     

     

     

    Trick these days is everyone want to do music around 140 so you can play +/- 5 BPM and get more gigs. You can present it as prog or as it psy/fullon which is pointless but that's whats happening. In Serbia for example most of prog tracks normaly 135-138 are played on 143-145. Take a look at Outsiders for example, the kick, bass, elements are pure prog stuff but tempo is more into psytrance so they can serve it for more masses easily, get more gigs and money obviously.

     

     

    Same as Astrix... pure prog. Both releases has nothing to do with fullon :)

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    Imba - First Encounter [Suntrip Rec.]

    in Artist News and Labels announcements

    Posted

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    Would like to share story behind album with all of you, before samples and all rest promotion... it's long read :)

     

    Writting album for 3 years and almost 2 months is long time, maybe but for me it was necessary so i can grow as an artist but also as a person. 

     

    It all started in beggining of september 2013. I had to play in Moscow in couple of days and i was rushing to make a track which i did in one day! Couple of weeks letter i went to Connection Festival and met Anoebis there... after some talk during dinner we spoke about music... ok i have something new, he heard it on dancefloor later and then asking me what about album? Ok lets do this! So title track 'First Encounter' going to be first track for album. I had just finished 'Sevilla In Trance' too, as well as E-Rection's remix but they went for amazing 10 years Suntrip Records compilation.

     

    I planned to finish album in 6 months... but i noticed i wasnt skilled enough, or i wasnt satisfied with what i can deliver by that time. So 3 years later, many versions of many tracks, played and tested all over... it was ready! 

     

    Each track very different from another, yet they make one unity. Each track tributed to a person or the event in my life, 3 years journey.

     

    But the best thing was the artistic freedom i had and i still does. You know how some labels can be hard: - you must do it like this or that bla bla bla. With Suntrip it's opposite. Fabien and Joske were with me trough all 3 years of production just guiding me (MEGA THANKS FOR THAT!) but as for production, style, artwork, mastering, promo... every sound, every note, every pixel of the design was by MY WISH. I was super happy that i had whole freedom while doing remix of Lydia DeLay's track, which originaly is dance/edm track - but i made it Goa :D And last track to be made for album was collab with Alex Ephedra, loads of fun and packs of cigarretes in progress... and ofcourse stressing him out with my ideas of how mix should sound like... :D

     

    For them i believe i was pain in ass for some time now - production wise. Album was 'finished' like year ago but me and my 'production' not happy at all. Sorry guys, you have to wait like 1 more year and listen to like 53 version of each track... now is better kick, oh i made better phase on bass, hey guys i compressed that snare nicer now... still i could do it better now! :D

     

    I experimented a lot. Basicly it is crossover from Goa Trance to modern Psytrance styles. You will hear some elements from Progressive, Fullon, Forest... there is offbeat, there is gallop, there is slide bass, there are breakbeats and lofis. From night time and acidic to morning and euphoric, even epic. Too many artists trying to recreate Goa from 20 years ago but i done opposite. Modern fat in-yer-face production with endless layers of deep psychedelia meeting old school spirit. 

     

    Or how i like to describe my music: FULL POWER GOA TRANCE FOR CELESTIAL BEINGS!

     

    Samples coming in following days so you have to wait. Meanwhile you have new Proxeeus and Crossing Mind albums, both released today, to spend some time with super nice music! :)

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    Imba - First Encounter [Suntrip Rec.]

    in Artist News and Labels announcements

    Posted

    I don't remember this being ever announced?

    http://www.arabesquedistribution.com/index.php?option=com_artistavenue&task=singleCd&id=3730&Itemid=1

     

    Anyway, eagerly looking forward to it - hopefully there's a lot of collaborations there as I think (with all due respect) that Imba works best with others.

     

    Also, where's the follow-up to the Space Elves album? It was pretty great, with very unique sound.

     

     

    Tim is working on mastering at moment, covers are done... i guess in some 10 days we will have samples and promo ready.

     

     

    There will be one collab on album... as much as fun doing collabs, its almost near impossible to do it for whole album. I wanted my album to be my idea in whole :)

     

    Combination of modern production with old school spirit. You might be suprised with my advancement from last solo track releases '604 Revolution' here on forum. As for Space Elves... nothing at moment.

     

     

     

     

    But you can have sneakpeak of one track here from party in Lithuania month ago, enjoy :)

     

    What are you looking for in music?

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

     

     but e.g. for Imba it's more about power, energy and drive.

     

     

     

    In short lines i love fast, powerful, clean music but i also give a lot attention to details. Music wise and production wise. Doing and understanding music gives you different perception, i know things attracted me 10 years ago before i started, same things annoy me these days somehow lol

     

     

    What most people find super good for me its meeeeeh, some of you probably spoted that. Goa trance is so tricky in many ways  :ph34r:

    What are you looking for in music?

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    - technical quality - in this day and age it's a requirement for music to sound good, because everyone has access to tools allowing to produce a decent mix. Therefore the sound should be free of artifacts, spacious (with good stereo separation) and with clearly defined but balanced bass & trebles. 

     

    This, not many people are taking care of. There are so many good tracks but badly balanced and produced, really sad.

     

     

    Well i prefer powerul music, one that have good drive. Really dont care much if some templates are used so far, or fills or specific type of break. If it works, it works!

     

     

    Kick-bass - i love them fat sharp and rolling... good compression, sidechain, eq, phasing are important here. If you don't do it well, you lose power in whole track.

     

    FX/background - deep and wide, atmos, farts, lazers, pads, vocals as long is sounds deep and spacy 

     

    synths/melodies - cutting trough that background psychedelia but have story for itself. I love long hypnotic parts, layers coming around and dance between each other. Good example for that is Dimension 5, they are masters of hypnotic.

     

    drums/percs - please no proggy white noises instead of real snares! I love old school drums, i love when you can hear some more variations, some breakbeats, something bit different. Combination of closed hats and tambourines or shakers. Combination of snare and claps. Tribal drums are always welcome too. Old Electric Universe is perfect example for such thing.

     

    Also track need to have it peak moments, not constant fullpower/over powering. It must takes you up and down. It must have few euphoric parts but some calm ones too. Whole track keeping same flat line? No thank you.

     

     

    Being unique? Every single track and every single artist is unique. The way how they play, how they produce, whole process is unique. Each is unique imo

     

     

     

    What i noticed, 20 years ago most of production was better than today. Strange... or just lazyness?

     

     

    After all if it catch my ears and moves my body i guess thats it? :)

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    So there we go...mainstream EDM goes psytrance

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    10 years ago fullon was mainstream, today is progressive... just a new style under Psychedelic genre.

     

     

    There is almost no underground in dance music. Not even psytrance-goa, with festivals like boom, ozora, etc, and the things that happen in goa for years.

     

    I believe you have been mistaken about Boom. Yes, it's huge and for that you could say its not underground, but music they serve is mostly underground - Goa, Twilight, Forest - night time music expect few huge proggy names obviously to sell tickets faster. Ozora is different story.

     

     

    IMO you can have 50k people festival and still underground, or you can have party with 500 people and it's mainstream. Numbers doesn't mean anything, but concept and music itself.

     

     

    Now to Goa-heads, everything that is not 90s Goa is mainstream. And that's the problem also.

     

     

    Also it's great you have scene so big = more party, more music, more different styles = something for everyone :)

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    Dynamic Range & Compression

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    I guess it's up to a taste. Personaly i love loud music - but loudness mostly destroys track in Goa trance as we are unable to have such quaility, or we just dont care as it is 'not important' in our style.

     

    But to have loud mastering i believe your music must be well produced, mixed, balanced... i mean you can have it loud anyway but it will sound shit.

     

    Take example of Nano Records or Bom Shanka music or fuckin Tesseract studios... their artists produce top quaility sound and it's so loud but still very pleasent and clean. It's also as much complex and layered as Goa trance, but in Goa Trance... its different.

     

     

    Good or BAD, things changed, 20 years passed and today we have 'different' standards...

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