Producing Berghain techno?

[Daemonix]

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[hydrogen]

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+1 why do i not take your advices. too tempting!

[sven laux]

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+1 why do i not take your advices. too tempting!

Ehm errr, I don't think this is Berghain techno...

[coldfuture]

resample much.

Loads of EQ to take off the air on the sounds. let the headroom you leave become the "air" to your tracks.

big verbs chained to soft bitcrushing then sent to other clean verbs.

delay, delay, and delay again.

Minimal sound source, much fx.

This can all be done in ableton very easily. Use EQ and filtering to create the space, then fill it up with reverb, subtle phaser, delay.

Use long fx chains. These are all Basic Channel tricks.

Thanks for the tip. Listened to some of your tracks and you pretty much nailed the textures I'm trying to get.

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but what kind of sound do you try to start with before running it through all the delays and reverbs?

Never did answer this. The sounds I start with are quite basic actually, for bass usually some square wave SID emulation stuff. The grit in the background will come from just creating a wall of feedback from whatever main pad synth I use run thru all the mess of fx.

A new trick I have been working with for getting that dusty atmosphere is putting an arpeggio on a pad and then bitcrushing that pad a bit, delaying it a lot and then EQing out all the lows and some of the highs. Run that thru a lot of reverb and get it kinda reacting to your kick/bass parts and you have something that sounds like one big filthy whole of a sound, but is really 3 distinct parts.

[will kinsella]

this is great, i love this discussion. Very surprised to hear about the resistance towards compression. Where I am learning it is very much pushed. Interesting stuff

[zxcv]

for this kind of sound i found it very helpfull to make an effect rack in ableton with different effect chains
first chain is without effect
second chain is with a beat repeat with change about 20% so the effect is not always there and on times when you dont aspect it
further on this chain an autofilter and a long long reverb
third chain is eg the same as above but with beat repeat on another note

[Minimal Samples]

Richie Hawtin never used compression.

Who told you that?

[Minimal Samples]

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Dude enough with the arrhythmical delays on the hats man its driving mad (in a bad way)