Brightening stabs and instruments

Quad · 21st March 2007

Can anyone assist me with octaves, i often begin laying instrumentals with upbeat melodies, but they dont pop off as bright as i hear, and it ususally ends up somewhat melancholy, does any one have some advice to brighten up lets say keys, or synths even, to make them more club sounding like my hits and stabs just fall short of grabbing ones attention

Switchcraft · 21st March 2007

its probably an arrangement issue, not engineering. So I would work with that first...

but if you are looking for a tech answer... then a neve style EQ can brighten and smooth out high freqs becuase those are active EQ with a clean soft high end. Ork, if you want something more edgy or extreme you can use a passive style pulltec plug. This can be used as a filter and can come across as more extreme. Also, digital keyboards (non analog synths), have alot of garbage between 220 and 500. get ride of something in there.

atma · 21st March 2007

more recently i've found BBE works really nicely for brightening samples--i seem to get less noise going this route, as the BBE algorithm doesn't just boost high frequency gain, but instead adds top end harmonics, so with older samples it tends to sound a little smoother.

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Quad Gear nut Joined: Jan 2006 Posts: 120 Thread Starter	Brightening stabs and instruments Can anyone assist me with octaves, i often begin laying instrumentals with upbeat melodies, but they dont pop off as bright as i hear, and it ususally ends up somewhat melancholy, does any one have some advice to brighten up lets say keys, or synths even, to make them more club sounding like my hits and stabs just fall short of grabbing ones attention

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21st March 2007	#2
Switchcraft Lives for gear Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 1,059	its probably an arrangement issue, not engineering. So I would work with that first... but if you are looking for a tech answer... then a neve style EQ can brighten and smooth out high freqs becuase those are active EQ with a clean soft high end. Ork, if you want something more edgy or extreme you can use a passive style pulltec plug. This can be used as a filter and can come across as more extreme. Also, digital keyboards (non analog synths), have alot of garbage between 220 and 500. get ride of something in there.

21st March 2007	#3
atma Lives for gear Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,407	more recently i've found BBE works really nicely for brightening samples--i seem to get less noise going this route, as the BBE algorithm doesn't just boost high frequency gain, but instead adds top end harmonics, so with older samples it tends to sound a little smoother.