How to eq and process a leadsound

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  1. protonica

    protonica Newbie

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    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?
     
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  3. xorome

    xorome Audiosexual

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

    Arabian_jesus Audiosexual

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    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.
     
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    No Avenger Moderator Staff Member

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