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Supersaw?
« on: October 03, 2016, 07:14:06 am »
Hi, wondering if anyone has any ideas on what I think is a super saw in the drop?
https://soundcloud.com/adventureclub/limitless-feat-delaney-jane

It sounds so clear and clean but not harsh at all. Just wondering what on earth they have done to achieve this sound, it sounds like two super saw layers a lower and a higher as well as a bass and white noise which is pretty standard I guess.

have tried a lot of things to get a similar sounding super saw but just can't get it, any help much appreciated.

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Re: Supersaw?
« Reply #1 on: October 17, 2016, 06:24:22 am »
Damn 80 views and not one person has a clue...lol

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Re: Supersaw?
« Reply #2 on: October 17, 2016, 07:50:33 am »
lol easy check out some of the tutorials by virtual riot, he makes that kind of sound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgCc37_Rp8g


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Re: Supersaw?
« Reply #3 on: October 18, 2016, 02:01:55 am »
You really have a lot of the idea, to be honest. There's actually only two real layers here:

1. the reese bass, which is going through some high/low/band pass filtering to give it that vocal-y quality and being reinforced with a sine wave sub bass. this is the loudest element in the mix during the drop and provides the majority of the sound you hear throughout the drop.

2. the super saw, which is in comparison REALLY quiet. The biggest part here is getting the chord stacks right, because honestly this might just be plain old single-voice saw waves with no unison at all. Experiment with combinations of unison supersaws and regular saw waves, then try stacking octaves of chords (i.e. if you have an F Major chord (F A C), duplicate the F and the C up and down a few octaves to add some thickness. You don't have to duplicate the A, since you only really need one third to provide a character to the chord).

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Re: Supersaw?
« Reply #4 on: October 18, 2016, 08:19:43 am »
lol easy check out some of the tutorials by virtual riot, he makes that kind of sound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgCc37_Rp8g

Sound a lot different to me tbh, I had watched those a long time ago, love virtual riots tutorials though, cheers!

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Re: Supersaw?
« Reply #5 on: October 18, 2016, 08:30:47 am »
You really have a lot of the idea, to be honest. There's actually only two real layers here:

1. the reese bass, which is going through some high/low/band pass filtering to give it that vocal-y quality and being reinforced with a sine wave sub bass. this is the loudest element in the mix during the drop and provides the majority of the sound you hear throughout the drop.

2. the super saw, which is in comparison REALLY quiet. The biggest part here is getting the chord stacks right, because honestly this might just be plain old single-voice saw waves with no unison at all. Experiment with combinations of unison supersaws and regular saw waves, then try stacking octaves of chords (i.e. if you have an F Major chord (F A C), duplicate the F and the C up and down a few octaves to add some thickness. You don't have to duplicate the A, since you only really need one third to provide a character to the chord).

Thanks for the reply, I did actually figure the bass takes up a lot of the freq range but maybe I underestimated and need to cut even more lows from my super saw.
Any tips on the bass sound?

I had read previously to replicate the third note of the chord not the root or 5th so thanks I'll give that a try and experiment with single saws and unisons, cheers really appreciate the input.

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Re: Supersaw?
« Reply #6 on: October 18, 2016, 02:44:40 pm »
Keep in mind I haven't replicated it myself so I'm going based exclusively off memory, but the bass is primarily a reese - two/three saw waves detuned slightly against each other. This can be done by doing a 2 voice unison or using two oscillators, and messing with the detune values until you get it right. High pass it just enough to remove the sub and layer in a sine wave sub bass, then when you're playing different bass notes experiment with automating a filter over the reese. Sometimes it's a low pass, sometimes it's a high pass, so just play around and see if you can get it.