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My bass needs to gain a few pounds
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| G-Con |
Hello everyone.
Been working on this tune for a couple of weeks now. Its nearly finished but I'm having real problems making the bass fatter (few people on here told me that it needed it).
At the moment, its got a unison on it with 4 voices, anymore and it doesnt sound right. As far as im aware i shouldnt real double it up with different settings for left and right channel as it needs to stay centered. I've tried putting a chorus on it, but it seems to take the edge off it. I'm not very good with chorus anyway, it seems to have an lfo on it changing the sound which i rarely want.
If this was you're bass line, what would you do to fatten it up. Please give me some advice.
The sample uploaded is an old one that i uploaded last time. Since then, the tune has been updated but the bass line is pretty much the same so fo this post it will be ok. No need to listen to the whole tune, just from about 0:30secs to 0:45secs.
Please help!!
I've deleted the link as I've finished the track now. Please see my post at the bottom. |
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| mysticalninja |
| id use Waves Linear LowBand EQ and boost between 60-80hz. or voxengo warmifier. or that PSP MIXBASS . god damn that adds massive ammounts of fattness. |
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| vccv |
| If u have UAD I would try a Pultec followed by a LA-2A, saves alot of my poor bass programming attempts. If not I second that Waves eq or maybe a Q3,Q4 will do the trick also. And then maybe put a Waves RBass or a CamelPhat, also heard some nice things about PSP. |
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| Eldritch |
| quote: | Originally posted by G-Con
As far as im aware i shouldnt real double it up with different settings for left and right channel as it needs to stay centered. |
This is somewhat true. You don't want alot of stereo width on bass frequencies because it sounds odd on headphones and it will cause the needle to skip if it's pressed on vinyl.
However, this doesn't prevent you to have stereo width on the higher frequencies of the bass synth. It's only the sub bass that is problematic.
You can achieve this by using a stereo imager on the processed stereo bass and make the low bass frequencies mono. Or splitting the signal before you do the stereo processing.
Listen to this sample from my latest track "Damaged".
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(The first one is a completely mono bass and the other one is the stereo bass.) |
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| DJ_Eternal |
Superb bass eld, really pumping low end compression.
For a bass G-Con, i would recommend taking out some of your higher end freqs in that bass sound. Sidechain with the kick, and use a different synth/sound to layer a higher freq. bass above it... |
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| michaelconway |
| whats funny is you solved your own problem in the name of this thread. "My bass needs to gain a few pounds", So in a sence you bass is lacking the right "Frequences" and it needs to gain them. So what do you do? well have you tryed to layer you bass with a sine wave or 2 detuned triangle waves and filter off the higer frequncies at around 200? that would add weight to your bassline. carefull how you mix it in, you dont need to full sub bass unleashed just enough to give your bass some weight. try it and tell me what you think. |
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