Spacious pads

nrjizer · Post by **nrjizer** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 1:54 am

Quick question,

I'm having trouble getting the particular spacious/airy quality out of my pads that I want. It's the sort of sound that guys like Vince Watson often use in deep techno... the sound obviously has a lot of reverb, delay, and stereo panning, but it's still rather up front and clear, the 'verb isn't very cavernous. I put a sample up on soundcloud, you can hear the pad in question come in around the 30 second mark:

http://soundcloud.com/nrjizer/vince-remix-sample

I can upload a few more samples but I think that one is a good example. It's very spacious but the reverb sounds modest. Any advice for creating such a sound? My attempts usually end up with a reverb/stereo spread that is too cavernous, if that makes any sense.

victorgonzales · Post by **victorgonzales** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 7:30 am

eq and reverb should produce that if you tinker around enough. Thin out the mid range and perhaps use two different but very similar pads on the same midi notes to build strength without more volume.

Just guessing.

ganik · Post by **ganik** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:49 am

maybe this tutorial will help you a bit: http://audio.tutsplus.com/tutorials/pro ... -own-pads/

JonasEdenbrandt · Post by **JonasEdenbrandt** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 2:11 pm

thx ganik never saw that site before seems to have a few good tips and tricks

dubgil · Post by **dubgil** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 1:39 am

ganik wrote:maybe this tutorial will help you a bit: http://audio.tutsplus.com/tutorials/pro ... -own-pads/

should have known a person with the BC avatar would be hip to this link

thanks for sharing