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Hi,



On a lot of dubstep tracks, it seems like all of the growls and synths has been high cutted or ducked/notched around 3-5Khz. I have tried to figure out about this technique with de-esser, EQ, compression and multiband compression, but I never get satisfied with the sound. Could you please give me a tip or an explaination about this mixing technique?



Example:

[url]The Mavrik - Funk It - YouTube



www.soundcloud.com/marthingundersen



Cheers,

Marthin

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A lot of the those basslines are stuck through stuff like guitar rig.



The Cabinet models tend to have that Scoop EQ on them

3

Ok, thank you!

Any Amp and Cabinet Vst´s to recommend?

The originals that comes with Ableton doesn´t work …

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cant go wrong with guitar rig. (new version has Traktor FX with Vocal Filters)



IK multimedia do a decent one too.



or a cheaper alternative

5

I found this video pretty useful for using mostly Ableton plugins to create sounds like that



You’ll need CamelCrusher buts its free so you should be good



Edit: and of course you’ll need Massive :hehe:





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Nothing in that you would specifically need massive for… could use ANA no probs.

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Thanks guys,

I tried the cabinet and amp thing, but I was no completly satisifed with the sound. The main problem is that my synths has to much “highs” … the snare wont come out of the mix as clean as it should. I can also hear on the track that it has a lot of Air on the synths too, so I have tried to just duck the synth around 3-5Khz, and then boost it around 8-12Khz to give the air back. Unfortenuatly there is no tutorials on youtube that I have seen about this kind of mixing …

I really hope you understand what I mean and what kind of sound I am looking for.

This is the track that I am working on, (an old mix, but maybe you will understand what I mean if you compare)



[url]http://soundcloud.com/marthingundersen/work-in-progress[/url]



Also, I would like to thank you guys from sonicacademy … thanks to all of your great tutorials I got signed to addiktion

http://www.addiktion.com.au/#!theotherguy/c1xd6

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Ive been playing with this for a few hours… Doing my head in





The Closest i can get is when i use some heavy distortion followed with a Band emit Filter and some phaser.



I think the Phaser is Key Maybe try some other phaser plugins.



Heres my attempt.





(I had it sounding Better with Guitar rig and ANA but i wanted to use all Ableton internal plugs for those that dont have them.)

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Thanks a lot!

It sounds like the phaser is an important factor to create a mix like this



Cheers,

Marthin