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What are your go-to techniques to achieve a climax in a track?
Do you use rhythm, melody, changes in instrumentation, mix automation, risers etc or a combination of all of them?Let’s share composers tips and tricks to realize the best emotional and exciting crescendo.
Yes. All of the above.
But I only use risers in electronic or trailer=esque music. Otherwise there are many longstanding musical traditions of how to do exactly that – get the music louder and/or more intense.
Open filters
Raise volumes
Automate some elements down and others up
Add in another element / instrument
Move the voicings up as you culminate the crescendo
More vibrato
Or just play the dam instrument louder.
and on and on…..Whatever works works.
More ideas:
Crescendo roll
Backwards sample
Bass drop (808 that keeps dropping and dropping like a trailer)
Dissonance! Without resolving. This is my favorite.
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