Collective tips

[Luke Icard]

MASSIVE SUPER SAW ISH PAD (Thor)

Three Multi Osc or Analog Osc Depending on Taste
Detune Thor by -24 cents on each octave (leave one at 0 cents if you want)
Use the spider audio merger and splitter to make another copy of the thor
Add a third cable and detune it with unison
Add White Noise
Add Verb
Pan L & R
And Serve

DISTORTED BELL SOUND (Thor)

Sine Wave On Octave 5
Crank up the ENV filter and VELOCITY on the Low Pass Ladder Filter
Turn down the decay and sustain on the Filter ENV
(Must have gate trig on)
Use the Saturation knob on the drive
Add some reverb
Add some delay if you want

[Rmonik]

Big supersaw: (sylenth1)

Osc 1 8 voices, detune to 11 o'clock.

Done. :3

[Kreepr]

Big supersaw: (sylenth1)

Osc 1 8 voices, detune to 11 o'clock.

Done. :3

that won't give you enough character in your supersaw.

[Rmonik]

Sure it will. It's a supersaw. Supersaws don't need character.

Nah but seriously, my point was just that what i suggested will already sound better than what ike said :3 Crappy thor.

[Kreepr]

exactry. What I do for my supersaws.

One discombobulator with saw on 11 oclock detune. One discomboscillator with saw on 1 oclock. Fucking amazing saws. They're quite super

[Doomsaloto]

Something neat you can put on a send to brighten up your mix a bit.

EQ with hipass around 2khz, some boosts around 10 / 12 khz, some a bit lower, around 2 - 4 khz. Use a M/S EQ and boost the mid and side differently. Also, make sure you're using a linear phase EQ because it'll be on a send, and you don't want any delay.

Next some stereo widening, I just use Utility in Ableton with the width bumped up to 150%.

Then some sort of exciter or saturation / harmonic distortion.

Finally, at the end of the chain, put some compression on it.

Once you've got that all set up, send your individual tracks to it in varying amounts. Sounds pretty cool.

Here's my setup.

[Kreepr]

I don't care if people say sun screen is for nerds, I'm never not putting it ever again. I look like a fucking crab at the momo!

[Pokey]

But a great time for making epic dubstep bass lines is to automate everything! I'm sure people say that a lot but I've only started doing it recently and its made my basses sound way fatter and have way more motion. Another way to get a good wobbly reese-y sound in Ableton is the Frequency Shifter, turn the dry wet to about 50% and turn down the fine until you get a good speed wobble you can experiment with the wide button too.

[Doomsaloto]

Something else I picked up from the r/edmproduction IRC: When working on dnb / glitch hop crazy basslines, start with the sub and work your way up. Get a groovy sub pattern first and then layer or process your sub to get the mids.

[0oshwavyo0]

I'm gonna go ahead and revive this thread so I can get more tips

^I like that idea about starting with the sub.

My tip: specifically for massive: you see all these yt tutorials where they make the entire patch in massive, using only massive's filters and distortion and whatever, don't fall into that trap. Get your base sound, and then really make it happen with the rest of your fx chain.
And for FL users: "make unique" is a gift from god. It says so in the bible.