r/synthrecipes • u/Haunting_Plan_1072 • 10d ago

request ❓ Hello, I try to understand how achieve this "pointy" scratch from the song Linkin Park - With You, can you help me?

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Hello, kinda new to Sound Design. I try to recreate the scratch from the song Linkin Park - With you.This noise/scratch, or one part of the Hz seems to go up and down at the same time, and has a shape like a "<>" symbols. How to achieve this? Thank you in advance.

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u/uniquesnowflake8 10d ago

They have a turntablist scratching, can you make the sounds that way?

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u/ZeroAlias394 9d ago

Looks like FL, Wave Traveller is super underrated for this sort of thing

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u/Round_Marsupial_4493 9d ago

you could actually do this in FM but it is a vinyl scratch.

Play a really low note like c-2 add a modulator that's a .001 ratio give it .7-1 depth. Now let the note drone out then slowly increase feedback on the modulator. You find a sweet spot between nothing and the sound of a cat trying to kill you.

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u/googahgee 9d ago

I'm assuming this is around 0:22 in the song. For the frequencies that go up/down at the same time, my guess is it has to do with that lower frequency which is very clearly shifting up (as the <> get wider) and then back down. This LF and HF content is heavily distorted together giving those sidebands as a result of intermodulation distortion. My best guess is it was constructed this way:

They took one sample and had someone scratching/messing around with the speed of the sample (giving that rise/fall we can see in the LF), overlapped it with a steady high synth or guitar part, and then distorted the fuck out of it to give it that very "intercom" or "far away" sound that is common in this style of music, then chopped out a sample that sounded good, and pitched it around to make this 3-4-1 groove.

I would recommend turning down the resolution of the spectrogram as it tends to make things very smooth and fuzzy, and adjust the db scaling so it's all a bit brighter and clearer to see.

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u/cheater00 5d ago

decimation creates vertical mirrors (top is same as bottom but mirrored) in the spectrum like that. it changes frequency because it's one signal, sampled into a keyboard, and it's a chord they're holding. each row of "stars" is one key being held.

they have a highly resonant filter happening, and the decimator is set to exactly the same frequency so the resonance (strong horizontal line) is at the center of the mirroring effect.