I try to make music in the Psytrance genre. I’ve noticed that my leadsounds sounds quite weak compared to samples of leads i find at splice.
I’ve imported some of these leads from splice and tried to come as close as possible with equing my leads to ger a similar sound. Could this be a way to get a better leadsound? How could i improve my leads even more? Using compression?

 

Much easier if you'd attach examples of what you're going for and what you currently have.

 

Like xorome said: attach some examples, otherwise it's almost impossible to give you good advise.

Just to give you some general advice: psytrance is pretty transient heavy music and I've found that Newfangled Audio Elevate is second to none for stuff like this. The adaptive transient shaper+clipper combination is superb, as is the EQ/limiter.

OTT should also be able to get you a powerful and forward sound, but it can easily ruin the tone if you don't know how to use it.

 

Last edited: Jul 26, 2022

Could be EQing, compression, distortion, layering. As the other said...