MrMimas

Hello evryone out there! After a week of both work and relaxation, we are ready to start with the next ‘lesson’. As You are able to remember, the last post was refering to the bass, its importance and some hints on how should You approach all bass / bassy intruments or sounds in relation to Your tracks. Saying that basses were difficult to encapsulate is only the tip of the sound design iceberg since trying to define what makes a good lead is impossible, as You actually may know. Every track, every genre will use a different lead sound ranging from Daft Punk´s example of distorted or phased leads, to the various plucks used by artists such as Paul Van Dyk through to the hundereds of variations on the euforic trance leads. Consequently, i am telling You that there is no definitive methods to create a lead timbre but it is important to take a lot of time producing one that sounds right ! I would say that almost in all tracks, the entire track rests on the quality of the lead and it is absolutely vital that this sounds precisely good. However, while it´s impossible to suggest ways of creating new leads to suit any one particular track, there are some generalizations htat can be applied: - Fast attack on the amp; - mid-rande position frequency; - Doubling; - Hocketing; - Splitting; - Layering; - Right Effects; - Good quantitization.

Make sure You go after some examples of great euphoric trance leads, plucked leads, distorted leads, theremins, hoovers, house pianos, organs.

Let´s take a look at an example: