That 90s metallic chord sound
That 90s metallic chord sound
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Kind of a random thread but I was listening to the second track yesterday and wondered how they got that metallic sound that's on a lot of these kinda 90s tracks. It's sounds a bit like phasing or flanging but not really. In the first track it sounds like it's sampled but then somebody somewhere has had to have made it.
youtu.be/5vDjZhiNXCE
Kind of a random thread but I was listening to the second track yesterday and wondered how they got that metallic sound that's on a lot of these kinda 90s tracks. It's sounds a bit like phasing or flanging but not really. In the first track it sounds like it's sampled but then somebody somewhere has had to have made it.
Re: That 90s metallic chord sound
The ordinary saw / dub stab? The first track have sampled and filtered a classic stab. You know the sound.
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Re: That 90s metallic chord sound
Of course I know how to make a stab but there's a certain agressive, liquid, metallic texture to those tracks (especially the second one) that I find really hard to replicate. You also have it in some of the early Basic Channel records. Someone once told me that sound comes from the Mistress Flanger pedal but I've tried the D16 emulation and it didn't really do that sound as far as I tried.
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Sounds like, beside the context, that what makes that 2nd chord is the reverb, the modulation and the delay.
The modulation is most likely in the delay but it's possible it's only the half story; the cranked resonance from the delay and the cut off modulation on the synth.
I can't be 100% certain but I'm willing to bet money on that the chord in track 2 is also a sample not a synth.
The modulation is most likely in the delay but it's possible it's only the half story; the cranked resonance from the delay and the cut off modulation on the synth.
I can't be 100% certain but I'm willing to bet money on that the chord in track 2 is also a sample not a synth.
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Agreed with Mattais,
The second track you can hear two sets of transients per 'note' if you like - basically there's a real quick slapback delay which sounds like it's been resampled and pitched up a bit to make it hit super quick. The filtered bits are nice, I'd like to know more about what filter makes that sound. Though the more I listen to it I think that's a separate sample rather than the main chord being filtered.
The first one I've made similar by making your usual dub chord with chorus and whatever you want on there, using massive, sampling out and cutting off the transients (or more) from the start of the hit to get that really snappy attack.
The unfortunate thing is both sounds are simple at the core, but it's the little secret sauces that make them so
The second track you can hear two sets of transients per 'note' if you like - basically there's a real quick slapback delay which sounds like it's been resampled and pitched up a bit to make it hit super quick. The filtered bits are nice, I'd like to know more about what filter makes that sound. Though the more I listen to it I think that's a separate sample rather than the main chord being filtered.
The first one I've made similar by making your usual dub chord with chorus and whatever you want on there, using massive, sampling out and cutting off the transients (or more) from the start of the hit to get that really snappy attack.
The unfortunate thing is both sounds are simple at the core, but it's the little secret sauces that make them so
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Re: That 90s metallic chord sound
I'm with Mattias on this one.
Sampled, with the right blend of phaser/delay/reverb.
Don't know anything about the artists, but track one = 2000, track two =1994. Akai sampler / DP/4?
Sampled, with the right blend of phaser/delay/reverb.
Don't know anything about the artists, but track one = 2000, track two =1994. Akai sampler / DP/4?
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Re: That 90s metallic chord sound
The first track is two guys from Slovenia that also made a bunch of records on labels alongside Umek etc. The second track is Cisco from The Advent.nomadjames wrote:I'm with Mattias on this one.
Sampled, with the right blend of phaser/delay/reverb.
Don't know anything about the artists, but track one = 2000, track two =1994. Akai sampler / DP/4?
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I dig them both, but I really like the second one.
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