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Post by Hyper Shaman on Oct 14, 2019 18:44:13 GMT -5
In response to previous discussion on actual synthesis; I think that, in the case that the musician has experience with synthesis, that it can be very helpful.
I personally enjoy working at trying to create the right sound and tone in a synthesized sound. I do agree that synthesis often results in clean sounds that wouldn't sound at home in DS, BUT it's not impossible to make dungeon worthy sounds using synthesis and if you are able to then it becomes a fantastic playground!
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Post by skirmisher on Oct 20, 2019 3:33:47 GMT -5
In response to previous discussion on actual synthesis; I think that, in the case that the musician has experience with synthesis, that it can be very helpful. I personally enjoy working at trying to create the right sound and tone in a synthesized sound. I do agree that synthesis often results in clean sounds that wouldn't sound at home in DS, BUT it's not impossible to make dungeon worthy sounds using synthesis and if you are able to then it becomes a fantastic playground! I don't quite agree with synthesis being too clean as a platform in general. In my opinion FM and phase distortion synthesis are very Dungeon Synth by nature and have been used a lot. Substractive synthesis can be debated but I encourage everyone to try it out. It can do amazing things. Personally I prefer FM/PD over rompler sounds but I do love it all. I use rompler stuff, PD, FM, substractive synthesis and samples both downloaded and recorded and I think they all have their place. |
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Post by iamcaradoc on Dec 29, 2019 10:35:09 GMT -5
I guess that the good idea is to have some kind of concept of Your work. Dungeon synth isn't about making top chart hits, it's rather about creating a concept, an idea and turning it into music. Be creative, You don't have to stick in the idea of medival forests and castles, just do Your thing.
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Post by utumno on Jan 12, 2020 23:33:11 GMT -5
Okay idea I had:
I'm a big fan of a lofi tape recorded sound in DS (and well almost every genre I like I guess). I don't have a keyboard or quality synthesizer, but I have a tape recorder and tons of tapes laying around. So my idea is to program everything in FL Studio and then play it through a crappy practice amp while recording that with my tape recorder. At that point I should successfully have a pretty lofi dirty tone to whatever I programmed. That tape would then be my master and would then use my tape deck to dub more copies.
Has anyone else done this? If so did you have good results?
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Post by skirmisher on Jan 13, 2020 2:27:44 GMT -5
I haven't done that in this setting but I have mucked around with similar setups in other music projects. It's definitely worth a shot. I would also try playing it out from proper speakers and recording to tape since if we're talking about a walkman type setup where there is no proper mic involved it will probably sound very lo-fi with that already.
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Post by thekeeper on Jan 22, 2020 2:12:28 GMT -5
Okay idea I had: I'm a big fan of a lofi tape recorded sound in DS (and well almost every genre I like I guess). I don't have a keyboard or quality synthesizer, but I have a tape recorder and tons of tapes laying around. So my idea is to program everything in FL Studio and then play it through a crappy practice amp while recording that with my tape recorder. At that point I should successfully have a pretty lofi dirty tone to whatever I programmed. That tape would then be my master and would then use my tape deck to dub more copies. Has anyone else done this? If so did you have good results? Could probably work, but you might get some different reverb qualities or tones being that all the sound is coming through a single source and may not have the dynamic qualities of live recorded keyboards. If your stuff is multilayered, I'm assuming you'll get all channels playing through stereo speakers but recorded at like a middle source, so it might almost be like a mono-stereo hybrid. Did you end up doing this yet? I know it's not an uncommon strategy. I think even Matt from Hedge Wizard had recorded his speakers for More True but I could be misremembering. |
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Post by demesne on Sept 15, 2020 17:54:53 GMT -5
Does anyone have any recs for percussion/drum vsts? I've been wanting to add some to some projects but I haven't had any luck in finding any. Particularly in the lo-fi or old school style to fill the mix and add some rhythm.
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Post by anfortas on Sept 16, 2020 1:21:44 GMT -5
For old school drums, I would recommend soundfonts of some clasical synthesizers. |
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Post by myrrys on Nov 5, 2021 4:33:32 GMT -5
Hey,
I'm new here at the forums, and more or less new at making Dungeon Synth. I have been making music and otherwise working&playing on the field for 15+ years, but almost exclusively with modern DAWs. I have a 4-track cassette recorder, which I have used for tape loops and to give some saturation for individual tracks etc. But I have never really used it to actually record & make music, and now I want to make a few songs solely with the machine and other hardware (few synths, a sampler/sequencer and some pedals&rack reverb) I have.
I'd guess there are at least few artists here who have worked full albums on tape only, and I'd love to hear some tips and tricks on how to make the process as painless as possible. I know my way around recording, gain staging etc, but that experience is mostly from digital realm of production. Something I have been thinking about lately, and plan to experiment on before actual recording is how to use one track for multiple sounds in a way that I can still make good use of panning, so basically more planned approach on where things will be on stereo field. Any thoughts on this?
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