I have way too much fun making bass lines and I pretty much never use the same synth twice, but I typically use a tube distortion, sometimes a bitcrusher (if I'm doing some sort of daft punky "yeah" bass) and quite often I use a stereo widener on the upper frequencies.
One thing I do when I want my bass to sound massive, is I duplicate the main bass sound twice, pan them hard left and right, EQ out the low end and throw a short reverb on them.
EDIT:
Also the "no " ones like a compressor (sometimes with a bit of a slower attack if you want it to hit hard) and my bass is usually side chained to the kick.
Of course I make electro house so my opinion probably isn't relevant to what you trance guys do :)
Rebel Brown
My chain is usually synth > Logic Compressor > Logic Channel EQ.
If I've got a few basses sent to a bus then that might have a bit of gentle compression to help glue them together, but generally I try and keep it as simple as possible.
sako487
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Originally posted by Seandroid
I duplicate the main bass sound twice, pan them hard left and right
why
Seandroid
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Originally posted by sako487
why
Read what I wrote?
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One thing I do when I want my bass to sound massive, is I duplicate the main bass sound twice, pan them hard left and right, EQ out the low end and throw a short reverb on them.
sako487
Panning a sound hard left/right doesn't make a sound massive or wider..
Seandroid
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Originally posted by sako487
Panning a sound hard left/right doesn't make a sound massive or wider..
.......
I have 3 tracks.
Main bass track, main bass panned hard left and main bass panned right. The ones that are panned left and right have a reverb on them and the bottom end is EQed out.
Obviously I didn't just pan the bass to the left or right, that doesn't make any sense....?
kitphillips
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Originally posted by Seandroid
that doesn't make any sense....?
Not really;)
sako487
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Originally posted by Seandroid
.......
I have 3 tracks.
Main bass track, main bass panned hard left and main bass panned right. The ones that are panned left and right have a reverb on them and the bottom end is EQed out.
Obviously I didn't just pan the bass to the left or right, that doesn't make any sense....?
How does this make it massive, can you post a sample?
Maybe "massive" isn't the right way to put it but I like the effect.
It worked in my track Reactor, I was having a bitch of a time to get the drop to sound the way I wanted to, it either sounded thin and strange, or there was a lot of bass but it wasn't as audible as I wanted it to be when you listened to it on ty sound systems, doing this solved my problem and created exactly the effect I wanted.
Maybe "massive" isn't the right way to put it but I like the effect.
It worked in my track Reactor, I was having a bitch of a time to get the drop to sound the way I wanted to, it either sounded thin and strange, or there was a lot of bass but it wasn't as audible as I wanted it to be when you listened to it on ty sound systems, doing this solved my problem and created exactly the effect I wanted.
I see, well you just essentially doubled the bass and added reverb. Can get real messy in the bottom end too, so watch out
Seandroid
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Originally posted by sako487
I see, well you just essentially doubled the bass and added reverb. Can get real messy in the bottom end too, so watch out
Yeah, I know, I made sure to cut out the bottom end.
Looney4Clooney
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Originally posted by DJ RANN
I don't get why EDM producers use Rbass - I think it's because when they first see it, they see it has bass in the name so it must be good as a bass plugin.
It's actual use is to use psycholacoustics to make you think you're hearing bass, when actually you're not, you're just hearing the harmonics of a bass sound. Essentially, it just adds the harmoics so you think you're hearing loder sub bass frequencies, on systems that don't have the ability to reproduce that low range.
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we discussed this like years ago a few times. The trick to good bass is really pure lows and the mid highs , that is where the colour comes from.
sounds really bad dude. Like some guy farting. What is with the rhythm. Why do white people have such a hard time sounding funky. Its house. Right now it sounds like circus jumpstyle.
When I use synth bass, my chain is usually about 5- 8 plugins.
usually 1 pre and post eq
compressor
a multiband compressor
a transient shaper
some sort of harmonic/drive plugin
Here just messing around with headphones. No fx except on the bass. 1 sub bass, 2 other bass with about a chain of 8 plugins each. I don't get how you manage to make stuff that sounds so bad. I mean I haven't touched dance in years except this drunk adventure. I bet I could get a top 10 in less than a year. I mean at least you should be able to sound like your fav artists.
