Author Topic: skrillex vocal technique in justin biebers 'ill show you' and 'children'  (Read 18666 times)

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i'm really curious about that drop sound in the song "children"

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Re: skrillex vocal technique in justin biebers 'ill show you' and 'children'
« Reply #1 on: January 08, 2016, 04:51:04 pm »
I heard most of the weird sounds in the Purpose album were literally just Bieber's voice manipulated and pitched up or down a shit ton. Like the flute sound in Where Are U Now is apparently just his voice, not entirely sure on that one though.

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Re: skrillex vocal technique in justin biebers 'ill show you' and 'children'
« Reply #2 on: January 08, 2016, 06:05:55 pm »
Like the flute sound in Where Are U Now is apparently just his voice, not entirely sure on that one though.

You can make a flute sound from a lot of different sources using a comb filter/delays.

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Re: skrillex vocal technique in justin biebers 'ill show you' and 'children'
« Reply #3 on: January 08, 2016, 06:49:21 pm »
Like the flute sound in Where Are U Now is apparently just his voice, not entirely sure on that one though.

You can make a flute sound from a lot of different sources using a comb filter/delays.
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Re: skrillex vocal technique in justin biebers 'ill show you' and 'children'
« Reply #4 on: January 08, 2016, 09:11:09 pm »
Yea, in "children", sounds like resampling a small piece of the vocal, pitching it up (I think I've read skrill uses Celemony for vocal pitching), maybe adding some time on the attack, fairly aggressive high-pass filtering, and some distortion/saturation to give it that buzzy sound. Another thing to experiment with might be jumping around in the original sample when you're re-sampling. You can do this in Ableton fairly easily (though the jumps end up random) with the max 4 live LFO device and assigning it to the sample's start position.