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Electro Metal On Reason

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  • 15-11-2010 5:04pm
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    RickBockwinkle
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    Hello.

    Was wondering if anyone here had any good tips for making metal-style or electro-metal songs on Reason 3?

    It's not for anything in particular, but I've been trying to get a decent guitar sound with little success, and muted notes seem to be impossible (I'm looking for that metal "chug" sound if possible).

    Thanks


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    krd
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    You being a likely metal head with a vast collection of metal recordings

    My suggestion would be, find a recording with the chug chugs on it. Sample it and use it. I haven't used reason, but I would assume the sample lets you do lots of things like time correct and pitching.

    Sample a lot of different chug chugs and reuse them. No one is going to know you didn't create them - the original guitarist probably wouldn't be able to pick out their own from the hundreds of identical sounding chug chugs on other recordings.


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    Android 666
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    krd wrote: »
    You being a likely metal head with a vast collection of metal recordings

    My suggestion would be, find a recording with the chug chugs on it. Sample it and use it. I haven't used reason, but I would assume the sample lets you do lots of things like time correct and pitching.

    You can't timestretch with reason.


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    krd
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    Android 666 wrote: »
    You can't timestretch with reason.

    Not much of a sampler then.

    With Ableton it's as literally as easy as copying and pasting text. It's nearly too easy.


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    RickBockwinkle
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    Thanks for the info guys.


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    Zombienosh
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    krd wrote: »
    Not much of a sampler then.

    With Ableton it's as literally as easy as copying and pasting text. It's nearly too easy.

    Ableton is the business, i use it for all my "metal" recordings.


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    Sky King
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    +1 on the Ableton.

    Power chords are where it's at for this sort of stuff as well. (That's the root note and the fifth). You need chords. You could probably emulate the chug sound effect with a low pass filter and a bit of tweaking as well...


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    electrogrimey
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    Get something like Camelcrusher (it's free), really nice overdrive VST.

    You can probably get a guitar plucky kind of chug sound by messing with the ADSR too.


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