Rotten to the core.

[DannyBlack]

hey man

Are you using the verb as an insert? It just sounds a bit static, and a bit washy. Get where you are coming from wanting a verb, but it might be better routed out as a send, then you can sculpt the EQ on the send to trim the verb down, make it more sparkly in the high region. That will leave the glitchy sounds fairly clean and more forward in the mix, whilst getting the depth, space and head ****ery your are looking for. Also for space try just running some stereo delays with fairly hard panning. For glitchy unpredictable sounds like that delays work wonders.

I always build basslines in layers, have a deep clean sub rumble at the bottom with some decent EQ, then build another layer on top of it to give it definition and harmonic content. Deep bass is felt rather than heard, so want to keep that part fairly clean but beefed up. The harmonic content can then sit as a layer on top, bass cut out of it and it can be ground up, distorted, saturated, widened, reverbed, delayed etc or can simply be clean and melodic without interfering with the deep bass itself.

Some careful EQing and a bit of sidechain can give you a kick that gives you plenty of bass and punch together. Or you can layer kicks. You can get really nice kicks by building a deep subby kick with a "whumph" sort of sound to it, slower attack, then layer another kick without much bass (or with bass cut away) on top of it. That top end kick can also then have a bit of reverb on it, or distortion without affecting the bass qualities. Reverbs in the bass make things muddy quickly, and distortion can unproduce unwanted problems if its applied ot the whole sound.

I never thought of putting the effect on a send. hmmm... cool I will give that a stab. Cheers for the ideas and the pointers!

I also spent last night learning how to create wobble bass, so I have more ideas for the track.

[BloodStar]

I never thought of putting the effect on a send. hmmm...

you should deffinitelly try to hook compressor as a send effect. This is called NYC style compression. Princip of it is, you dont compress 100% of the signal, but as much as you can,. in the other words you are blending uncompressed with compressed signal.
try 1 compressor with heavy settings ,then send it to your drum buss, kicks, etc. work wonders when your kicks lack punch...

[stjohn]

or do both... :)

reverb plus a masher compressor give a lovely warehouse feel to the sound