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eyes without a face
04-02-2003, 09:17 PM
looking for some help here on getting some decent basslines, ive cracked it on a few tunes but sometimes i just get totally stuck for bass.

trying to create big hard bass sounds ala wilson, peter skode anything with that hard in yer face sound

miromiric.
04-02-2003, 10:59 PM
u can get pretty fat stuff out from good old roland 303. those kind of basses that makes u wanna turn inside out if u know what i mean :)

lunatrick
04-02-2003, 11:19 PM
The best bass sounds I've created have been using composite sounds i.e. use a bass station / 303 / whatever and maybe a sine wave of an akai sampler playing the same riff. Then sample both sounds so you end up one sound. Then maybe repeat this process, add some compression...see what happens....

MARKEG
04-02-2003, 11:21 PM
for me, it's all about standard sub bass... and compression and the kick that sits next to it. if you want a funky track, loop the bass on 4 beats... a little harder, loop it on 2 beats... and for hard, hard stuff 1 beat (but make some nice quick changes to the bass notes)

miromiric.
04-02-2003, 11:29 PM
mark that's useful. thank you!

Nomak
05-02-2003, 01:37 AM
When you say loop the bass for 4 beats or 2 beats do you mean 1 continous bass note that lasts 4 beats looped in a sampler?

MARKEG
05-02-2003, 02:11 AM
well no, i don't mean one particualr long sub bass note, but we have done that regularly and then varied other elements ie freq/res etc etc....

i basically mean the shorter the loop of the bassline, the harder the track sounds. but then a one bar sub bass loop needs to sound VERY interesting - perhaps by using some nice quick notes or other changes like i said.... there's no limit to what you can do to that bass!!!

i personal think the subbass is the most important part of techno.

Jimfish
06-02-2003, 05:01 PM
quite often i bounce down the main groove of my track and put it on a new channel then pitch it down - eq the tops out, pump up the sub with the aphex 104 or somthing simaler - apply a tiny small room verb and comp it.. you'll hear simaler effects on gardel records as thats a trcik they taught me...try reversing it too

MARKEG
06-02-2003, 05:03 PM
what a wicked tip... i can't wait to get in the studio and try that!

Jimfish
06-02-2003, 05:05 PM
yeah, it stems from us lot being lazy buggers really...

Jimfish
06-02-2003, 05:06 PM
easy quick way to get it soundin ****in big

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