General Lead-Recreations Tuts Topic!

[chadissilent]

^ Interesting. I tried a Spire saw layer with a virus square and ended up with this:
... rop-lead-2

I'll give it another shot tomorrow after I wake up from New Years festivities.

Thanks for the ingredients list

[chadissilent]

Here's another attempt from today.
Spire lead (soloed, unprocessed):


Spire recipe:
1x Saw osc, a little bit of detune, high density, not very wide, 1 voice unison
1x Saw osc, 1/3 detune, high density, 2/3 wide, 4 voice unison
1x Saw osc, 1/3 detune, 1/4 density, 1/3 wide, 2 voice unison, low volume

Use 1/3 glide, and LFO pitch modulation that fades in. The rest is to taste (SHP/Reverb/EQ, ASDR envelope)


1x Spire, 1x Sylenth, 1x Massive lead, offbeat pianos in background. All unprocessed:
... processing

The spire and Sylenth followed the melody, massive saws making basic chords in the background to fill out the sound. The same chords were used with the pianos for the offbeat feel.

All sounds, with processing and a sampled kick:


For the processing, I used an EQ and saturation on each of the channels, and then grouped them all and put on a multiband compressor, EQ, distortion, EQ, saturator, EQ then sidechain compression.

Does anybody have any suggestions or see any obvious mistakes that I'm making?

[Tweeka_1]

Not bad at all.

It seems to me that you lack a little depth in your lead, and that you're trying to boost it up a little too much with either a maximizer or a compressor.

There is no reason to use a distortion on the lead (I used the distortion inside spire)

And make a little more room for the reverb =)

[Dj Matikk]

@chadissilent Thats a good try like mr tweeka said don't over compress it.
Here are some leads I tried to recreate. There is also lead from Frozen which came out pretty good I think.

[Baemz]

Wow guys! Thanks for all the response, will definately try your methods and I'll post my result when I'm done!

[rockz1]

gave it a try as well but i'm not sure it misses something :d

[Dj Matikk]

Thanks for the feedback....

[chadissilent]

@chadissilent Thats a good try like mr tweeka said don't over compress it.
Here are some leads I tried to recreate. There is also lead from Frozen which came out pretty good I think.

I love your Frozen and Down Down lead remakes, I thought they were pretty spot on. Most of your others were really close too, but those two were definitely my favourites.

[rockz1]

@matikk. leads sound good what vst did you use? frozen remake is very nice. The melo @ 4.00 i would add a bassline to it grtz

[Dj Matikk]

All these were done on sylenth 1