Amon Tobin Fools Rhythm

[krismartyr]

Hi,

I have been trying to figure out how AT does his bass in this track...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvttDWdl0OQ


The bass is just killer...

Any pointers will be appreciated.

Thanks !

[nowtime]

Rhythmically, the "bass" notes are not on the beat, but are late or after the beat or have a considerably long attack.

[krismartyr]

yeah, i was wondering about the processing and modulation...

[[jur]]

Heavy squares and saws synth with lot of comb filtering, quite long portamento time, huge sidechain compression from the kick... And an insane amount of Amon Tobin mojo.

[krismartyr]

"And an insane amount of Amon Tobin mojo."

[Angstrom]

Sounds to me a like a lot of stacked detuned oscillators, a 1 oct pitch envelope on the note start, a triggered downward sawtooth LFO on the volume which has it's speed and waveshape changed later on to a slower sine. Then obviously there's a massive sidechain from the kick with a slow release to give that fade-in effect. but that's emphasised by a slow attack on the sound itself

here, try this: http://angstromnoises.com/example-tobin/

you'll have to "save as" on the link, because for some reason my server has forgotten the MIME type of .adg files
(its a rack with two Operators in it)