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Posted by ponsshin on May-20-2008 07:41:

How are bass farts made?

And I already know how to make real farts for those tempted to make the joke

More seriously, I was wondering how those bass pads and nappes were done. Some great examples of how those basses are used can be found in the following tracks:

Almost every Andrew Bennett release
Ohma - The Sun'll Shine
Marcus Schossow - Tears Behind Sunglasses

Can you guys give me pointers on how to make that (no presets please just a "general" fm or am synth recipe)?

Posted by Vortex_SA on May-20-2008 10:52:

try four osc. saw synth, take two of them at one octave and pan each to left and right accordingly, then take the next two, do the same thing an octave below, make your synth envelope contain only 100 precent sustain, you may find it a bit harsh right now (the synth...) but dont you worry! write some notes to it, sidechain it with the kick (or just compress them togather, whatever works) add an EQ on it... and another thing, those usually contain a small amount of portamento...

hope this helps...

Posted by ponsshin on May-20-2008 11:05:

quote:
Originally posted by Vortex_SA
try four osc. saw synth, take two of them at one octave and pan each to left and right accordingly, then take the next two, do the same thing an octave below, make your synth envelope contain only 100 precent sustain, you may find it a bit harsh right now (the synth...) but dont you worry! write some notes to it, sidechain it with the kick (or just compress them togather, whatever works) add an EQ on it... and another thing, those usually contain a small amount of portamento...

hope this helps...

Thanks, had to do some experimenting but that was mainly it.

Had to use a saw osc to modulate a sine osc (the saw osc was 7 octaves lower tho)

Posted by echosystm on May-20-2008 11:09:

i'm not very good at synth programming, but i always attributed this sound to pwm? at least that's what it sounds like to me in the second sample.

Posted by Vortex_SA on May-20-2008 11:48:

quote:
Originally posted by echosystm
i'm not very good at synth programming, but i always attributed this sound to pwm? at least that's what it sounds like to me in the second sample.

yes, PWM will give you the detuned kinda sound, thats also a way (tho it usually referred to square waves...)...

Posted by alanzo on May-20-2008 13:18:

A Shure SM58 Vocal Microphone and your ass.