The Original Growl Bass Thread (Official)

Volt_Punk · July 1, 2015, 11:11am

Its all Jaymac…he did such amazing work with his remake. We need him on this thread!

SpiderPubes · July 1, 2015, 11:14am

Unfortunately Jaymac is on an indefinite hiatus from music, he’s focusing on his university studies and has no time for music anymore.

Volt_Punk · July 1, 2015, 11:21am

Yeah that sucks…you do what you need to do though I guess.

KosmonautOfficial · July 1, 2015, 2:51pm

awesome tutorial bro <3

Volt_Punk · July 1, 2015, 7:15pm

I fixed it up a bit to get rid of some of that harsh top end…also added a sub bass part…I think it is sounding pretty solid now.

varialed · July 2, 2015, 2:23am

Lol I wish I knew FM8 well. That’s an awesome sound. Could you show/describe the patch any? I’m lousy with that plugin. Any details about that sound would be great though.

varialed · July 2, 2015, 6:10pm

I made a noise, any tips to get more movement? It sorta sounds like an exhaust pipe lol. I would use the sound how it is now in a track tho.

XoraX · July 2, 2015, 6:22pm

Pretty dope! Maybe try to automate a high pass filter to get it talking

varialed · July 2, 2015, 6:39pm

That doesn’t work very well, I’ve tried.

Redoken · July 2, 2015, 11:08pm

Try adding a bandreject filter in the low parts of the main spectrum of the sound, and some multiband compression to give it a “shape”

XoraX · July 2, 2015, 11:09pm

What about phaser? Or vowel EQ movement ?

SpiderPubes · July 3, 2015, 2:13am

One day I’ll pull off a Skrillex growl, I feel like I’m just missing one or two more things…

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KosmonautOfficial · July 3, 2015, 6:02am

sick man Could you give us a little insight? I think that you are close

XoraX · July 3, 2015, 9:55am

fucking sick dude !

XoraX · July 3, 2015, 10:07am

So I made these Growls for my new Track and they actually fit pretty well and I am happy with them ^^ if anyone is interessted I could share some details but they are actually nothing special https://clyp.it/eesuhpbk

Bag_Head · July 3, 2015, 4:33pm

https://soundcloud.com/theofficialbaghead/skrill-growl-first-attempt/s-UtstR

i think i got the skrill/desembra growl

Bag_Head · July 3, 2015, 4:34pm

O_O nailed it dude

SpiderPubes · July 4, 2015, 2:23am

Thanks guys! This was actually my first attempt at a growl with FM8.

I think the key to FM8 is ‘less is more’, I avoided making a base sound with overbearing highs like most people usually make, because Skrillex’s growls are “smooth” and I tried to do that with the core of the sound before anything else. I think the reason most FM8 growls have such high-end is people associate that with the vowel of the growl, don’t stress. Focus on a clean and smooth sound before anything else (The vowel comes later). Things like 8th/10th formant wavetables are definitely out of the question because they bring so much resonance and high end that your sound just turns to shit.

Before any distortion or vocoding etc, I have 3 different plugins shaping the vowel: Fliterscape2 to modulate between two vowel EQ’s, FabFilter Pro-Q to further exaggerate the vowel, and then WOW Filter with almost no wet or drive, it’s literally only there to clean and shape the vowel just a little bit more.

Then the rest is pretty basic, phaser, distortion, compression.
HIGH PASS FILTER AKA THE MOST IMPORTANT PART, IF YOU PUT A HIGH PASS ON YOUR GROWL AND IT SOUNDS LIKE SHIT JUST START AGAIN BECAUSE THERE’S NO SAVING IT. START THE SOUND AGAIN OR YOUR EFFECTS CHAIN.

Here’s my chain

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Also note, don’t just copy my chain, because it’s subjective. Every growl/bass is different and requires different processing. It’s there to just kind of give the jist on how to approach it. You certainly don’t need everything I have. I probably even have things there unnecessarily.

XoraX · July 4, 2015, 7:59am

I distorted them a bit more I think they sound much better now <3 https://clyp.it/cjtuhjmh

KosmonautOfficial · July 4, 2015, 7:25pm

nice work man