Making Textures From Pads
Pads are useful but frequently they can dominate tracks. Turning them into textural layers or atmospheres can be a powerful antidote to this problem
Pads are an essential part of many genres of electronic music but they can fall flat. For all that they’re great at reinforcing the harmony and chords of a track, they can also suck the life out of a mix if they’re too static. Through the following steps, we’ll see how to convert a basic pad part into something more interesting and textural using just a single other mix element to turn a stock sound into something much more engaging. The benefits are obvious. Not only do we gain valuable mix space, but we’re also building more of a background layer which is unique and to which further atmospheric layers could be added. There are lots of ways of making pad sounds less dull and the following steps should provide some inspiration, bur use your own imagination to think of fresh ideas too – the benefits will be huge.