CREATING LO-FI SOUNDS WITH REASON 10

So far in this sound-design series of Reason tutorials, we’ve covered some detailed ways to make your sound better, from crafting deeper basses and more kicking kicks to producing finer synth leads and huge combinations of sounds. Generally speaking, then, we’ve hopefully taken your sounds up a notch or two. This time, however, we’re going to take them down a peg as we dive down enter the murky realms of low fidelity.

HOW LOW CAN YOU GO?

We obviously love our technology here at , but if there is one criticism of production technology that is justified, it’s that it makes everything sound too darned nice. Some call it ‘the Pro Tools’ effect – how all music, no matter what its genre, has the same ‘sheen’, that same perfect aura, thanks to a mountain of perfect plug-ins being applied at the mixing and mastering stages. It’s true – technology really has transformed