I really really dig this sound at 2:04, any idea how to emulate it? THANK YOU!

 

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First off, I'm pretty sure it's three quick notes in like a strum/gliss, as opposed to a pitch envelope. I played it as a power chord. Root, 5th, root, descending. Might not be exactly what's in the song, but idk.


Here's what I did.
turn up the attack on the amp envelope. Either like 100ms, or if you can bend the attack curve to make it "convex" (e.g. logarithmic curve, i guess?), do that and make it a bit longer. Turn the decay and sustain down so the note fades similar to how the attack phase is, but I left a bit of sustain and added about a 200ms release as well
Fast tremolo. I used 1/16 triplets. Depends on the tempo of your song. this one is about 85bpm. In this case I used a sine lfo to modulate the vca output so i could trigger it with note on and fade it in for 150 ms so it doesn’t obscure the attack of the amp envelope
4 pole LPF around 600-800 with just a touch of resonance so it’s not so dark
1/8 note ping pong delay, and reverb in serial


The tricky part is finding the right waveform. The one that sounded closest to me was a square with the LPF brought down around 600, but with the filter that low, everything from triangle to saturated sine wave, to LPF saw sounds close but not quite right. May have used something a bit more "exotic" or maybe a touch of FM but there's no way of really knowing.

I added a couple voices of unison and an octave overtone for good measure as well. But it could just as easily be chorus or something. Again, hard for me to tell with the filter so low and so drenched in reverb

 

Last edited: Sep 29, 2019