Use white noise in a sampler and modulate the adsr and|or Lfo on it. It may be overused, but still pretty effective. Plus on a big soundsystem, it really brings the house down. Loud, it almost sounds like "crowd noise". You just have to find the right time to use it. You can also blend it ...

Layering basses is useful for a massive sound, such as in Drum and bass or commercial house. For standard "minimal" 4|4, i believe it is better to have a clean and simple "one dimension" bass. Use one or multiple sine or triangle, then lopass and some resonance, finish off with e...

The term "dub" refers to many things 1- Style of instrumental reggae where the vocals are cut off via engineering work. Later evolved into straight up instrumental reggae. 2- Dubplate, Dub. First physical form of a drum and bass or jungle track, most likely on a cheap vinyl, for club testi...

just listen to a lot of jungle and idm

source + envelopes + EQ

My latest finished track. Has some samples of my friend Jasper fooling around with the mic. Hope you enjoy! Comments welcomed.

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Listen to Hold Uppp or the other ones.

As fas as i'm concerned, the essence of minimal techno lies on the basis of suspense. The overall sound, on one hand, and the progression and the melody, on the other, rely on the fact that you don't give everything right away to the listener. Philip Sherburne wrote about this issue in an article so...

If you want to cut the spacy, ambient or "wide\large" feel of your (btw, very nice) track, try reducing the release\sustain of some of the instruments's envelope. Cut the reverb a bit. Center your mix. If you want to give it a "train" or "carrying" or "forward"...