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most psy basses are either:
1) a 303 or 303 clone (like audiorealism bassline)
or
2) steinberg VB-1
protoculture uses a 303 type sound for nearly all his basses (like in silicon sound and silicon sunrise). thats just a saw wave teebee with no resonance, set to play 1/16ths (even on the kick drum) with an accent on the 3rd, 7th, 11th and 15th note. just make sure you stick a compressor on the bass and duck the threshold between -10 and -25db with the ratio on 2:1 or greater.
other examples of psy 303 basses are: fatali - city of god, space cat - deep rising, beathackers - transpose, cosma - cusanem, hallucinogen - LSD (this one is a square wave, not saw wave)
cosma uses VB-1 for alot of basses. its a bit lame but most of them use the 'synthie' preset and stick it through a load of valves and exciters to beef it up. but im not complaining because cosma's tracks deliver on the bass anyway. VB-1 sounds quite 'solid' even when you play it below C3. it still sounds quite solid on C2 whereas most other synths tend to break up in this range. but VB-1 is a real 1 trick pony and it is so limited in programming terms there isnt that much you can do with it.
examples of psy VB-1 basses: voice of cod - just a ride, cosma - people on hold, cosma - the time has come
nearly all psy basses will have processing on it. in the case of just a ride, theres a shit load of post processing to get VB-1 sounding that good.
normally this will be with some degree of compression and overdrive. also run it through some tubes of valves or low frequency exciters to warm it up a bit if it is lacking. although with 303 basses, less is more. cosma's bassline for cusanem sounds like a saw wave teebee with a touch of distortion and thats it.
Last edited by Derivative on Dec-09-2005 at 18:35
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. Just a few days ago I got bored and tried to make a psy song :P. Not sure if its worth checking out but I used that stuttered kick like everyone is mentioning and it sounds pretty psy if you ask me. It goes K b b b K b b b and so on. The bass instrument needs to have pretty much a square envelope with no release (or very little) and for variation, you might mess with the decay and sustain. I used 24th notes in the stutter (or in other words, there was a 32nd rest in between the bass notes). I didnt use a 303 sound for the bassline though but hey, I'm not big into psy and I'm definitely not a psy producer so :P.
