MUHAHA!!! you all fell into my trap!!!
no i will make shit tonnes of money from all your hard effort
but seriously guys this has been super helpful !
now for more of my own secrets since you've all been so helpful

now for some thumping uplifting kicks : what i love to do for the tail end of the kick is to take a sinewave put a moderately steep pitch envelope(steeper for housy kicks) ,some attack on the volume envelope and then delay the tracks a few milliseconds. after i learned this trick some of the big guys have actually been asking for my kicks

Hey guys!
I remeber some time ago scrolling through the nexus library and finding a very specific sound
Here is a sample of where it is used
http://youtu.be/pqd-vidmC_k
I think its called band something can you help me out?

Nexus is great, fact you can just throw it in and some really well designed sounds available instantly, I use it a lot. The only downside is that it can be quite expensive once you start adding the expansion packs. I'd say its worth the investment only if you got the cash for it.

You're the reason i started second guessing my opinion 

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Check out this beast by Output called Signal. My new fav synth!

I just picked up Exhale from output and Signal is definitely next on my list (along with NI's Prism, and Monark)


My top 3 secret weapons at the moment are Synth1, ableton's Operator, and Sampler.

Sampler is pretty much my best friend.

these all are pretty much universial tools . i was meaning something you had too dig deep or found by watching a video with a wizard in the studio. 

You're right.  Those are probably just my most used.

Secret weapons then:
The Mangle, a really fantastic granular synth.
Crystal, subtractive + FM
TyrellN6, amazing softsynth based off of the Juno 60
I use one of these in probably 80% of my tracks.

Now thats what im talking about

Thank you!

lovely and yes the sidechain is a bit too heavy , less ratio and release
but the best thing is that the waveform actually looks like a cigarette with a mouthpiece

Check out this beast by Output called Signal. My new fav synth!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlLY8tFzxs0

my pants feel all creamy...

Hey guys and gals!
I was wondering if you were ballsy enough to share some of the plugins that define your sound or you use frequently to get some specific sounds .
Ill start

Maserati gti guitar compressor

This is my mothership.
I use this on leads and basses in almost all of my productions (i later found out that eric prydz is really fond of it aswell) this really makes my sounds come alive and makes them stand out nicely in the mix

Bbe sonic maximizer

Mostly use this on my leads to makem them crispier and more powerfull. This can make tinny plucks really stand on their own and heavy synths really shine.

Static phasers

I often use this to make sawy basses get a unique character and even stabby synths to sound experimental

Now what do you guys use ?