bassline tutorials

[The_Laughing_Man]

wicked little tutorial, Steve. can you please post screenshot or write settings of compressor you have got on Insert 2?

diky

Well the settings only really apply to the particular compressor you use.

To set the compressor, or in fact whenenever I use sidechaining for bass, I always tune by ear.

So, fastest attack, fastest release, highest ratio and lowest threshold.

Play loop, I then "tune" the release until the pump works to the required groove, adjust the attack so there is no "popping" and the compression sounds smoother.
Then back off the threshold (and possibly the ratio) to get the desired pump.
For this particular tune I backed off the threshold until the first point where serious pumping stopped being obvious.

Sometimes if the bass is really big, but has a lot of mid or high end presence I will split off the signal and only sidechain the low end, say, from 200hz down, so that pumping is less noticable.