Bass

[eyes without a face]

looking for some help here on getting some decent basslines, ive cracked it on a few tunes but sometimes i just get totally stuck for bass.

trying to create big hard bass sounds ala wilson, peter skode anything with that hard in yer face sound

[miromiric.]

u can get pretty fat stuff out from good old roland 303. those kind of basses that makes u wanna turn inside out if u know what i mean :)

[lunatrick]

The best bass sounds I've created have been using composite sounds i.e. use a bass station / 303 / whatever and maybe a sine wave of an akai sampler playing the same riff. Then sample both sounds so you end up one sound. Then maybe repeat this process, add some compression...see what happens....

[MARKEG]

for me, it's all about standard sub bass... and compression and the kick that sits next to it. if you want a funky track, loop the bass on 4 beats... a little harder, loop it on 2 beats... and for hard, hard stuff 1 beat (but make some nice quick changes to the bass notes)

[miromiric.]

mark that's useful. thank you!

[Nomak]

When you say loop the bass for 4 beats or 2 beats do you mean 1 continous bass note that lasts 4 beats looped in a sampler?

[MARKEG]

well no, i don't mean one particualr long sub bass note, but we have done that regularly and then varied other elements ie freq/res etc etc....

i basically mean the shorter the loop of the bassline, the harder the track sounds. but then a one bar sub bass loop needs to sound VERY interesting - perhaps by using some nice quick notes or other changes like i said.... there's no limit to what you can do to that bass!!!

i personal think the subbass is the most important part of techno.

[Jimfish]

quite often i bounce down the main groove of my track and put it on a new channel then pitch it down - eq the tops out, pump up the sub with the aphex 104 or somthing simaler - apply a tiny small room verb and comp it.. you'll hear simaler effects on gardel records as thats a trcik they taught me...try reversing it too

[MARKEG]

what a wicked tip... i can't wait to get in the studio and try that!

[Jimfish]

yeah, it stems from us lot being lazy buggers really...

[Jimfish]

easy quick way to get it soundin ****in big