Rawstyle Drop From Scratch

I'm going to create a rawstyle drop from scratch. First of all, I find a kick I really like, then I make the screech from scratch.

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    01

    Record the screech and keep the best parts

    Watch 0:57

    I make a standard FM screech in Serum. I immediately know I want to control the FM, because that way I can really accentuate the screech at certain parts. Then I add a lot of distortion. The kick is in E, so I make the screech in E as well.

    Then I just play it and simultaneously record it. I load the recording into my sampler, play it and choose a few parts that are really cool. Those are the parts I post-process.

    02

    A dry and a wet signal in Patcher

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    For the post-processing I take two signals. One is a dry one. The other one is a wet one, with iZotope Trash 2 for a really weird effect, then EQ and Stereo Shaper. I don't want bass in this wet result and I want it to be stereo. Then I reduce the volume a bit, so it's accompanying the original sound.

    I do the same dry and wet signal again on the vocal. People should really start using Patcher more, because it's super dope.

    Patcher in a rawstyle drop: From FL Studio straight to the output, and through Trash 2, Parametric EQ 2 and Stereo Shaper
    The dry signal goes straight out, the wet one through Trash 2, EQ and Stereo Shaper.
    03

    Bass glitches as ear candy

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    I think we need to get some ear candy in here. Look up bass glitches on Splice. You can put stuff like this in front of your screech. I make a volume automation of it so it doesn't play all the time, and you can really accentuate that the screech is coming up. I remove some bass and make it stereo, and it just fills it up a little bit more.

    I'm also looking for organic sounds to accentuate the screech. A lot of this is not taking the sample and just putting it in your mixer. It's accompanying everything you've already put in there.

    04

    Reverse reverb into the screech

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    Then I add some reverse reverb on the screech. There are multiple ways to do reverse reverb, but I take ValhallaRoom and the mix goes from zero percent up to where the screech opens up. It's a small trick. I record that sound, because I want to use it in the song.

    It accentuates the screech a little bit more, because it draws people into the tune. Otherwise these screeches will be random.

    FL Studio clips: ValhallaRoom mix rising and decay falling, ending where a screech starts, reverse reverb in a rawstyle drop
    ValhallaRoom mix and decay automation, leading into the screech.
    05

    A separate bus for the build up

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    I open up a bus and call it build up, because I don't want to put build effects on the full bus. Imagine you have other vocals in your build up. You don't want reverb on all of these. So create a different bus where you put the snares and the leads that go up.

    On that bus I add Endless Smile, because it always works. It gives this effect where it just washes out. I remove the bass, and everything gets mono at the end. It's a really easy way to get a lot going on in your build up with just a few sounds. You just add a lot of automation clips.

    Rawstyle build up clips: Serum pitch bend, LFO4 rate, Endless Smile, Kickstart mix, EQ band 1 frequency, Stereo Shaper mix
    The automation clips in the build up.
    What I use in this video

    FL Studio·Serum·Fruity WaveShaper·Fruity Compressor·Fruity Parametric EQ 2·Patcher·iZotope Trash 2·Fruity Stereo Shaper·Kickstart·OTT·Little AlterBoy·ValhallaRoom·ValhallaShimmer·Fruity Delay 3·Edison·Dada Life Endless Smile

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    The kick I start this drop with comes from this pack, and so does the vocal.

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