How do I go about getting this bass sound?

yearlongyeti · Post by **yearlongyeti** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 3:22 pm

Hi all I have ableton suite and was woundering if anyone knew how to go about or what preset I could start from to get the "slam" by pendulum bass sound. (not exactly a unique sound I know)

weeddigger · Post by **weeddigger** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 3:27 pm

Got a link to the sound?

yearlongyeti · Post by **yearlongyeti** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 3:31 pm

Sorry, try this http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NnkM6A6aAUc . I think the guy dancing is me

weeddigger · Post by **weeddigger** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 4:26 pm

Sounds really fat... I'm just listening on some shitty earphones, but the fatness is coming thru...

Pardon my newbness here, but maybe it's a simple FM bass, with possibly more bottom end than normal. Maybe adding some sub bass to it...

Seems relatively simple...

parisapartment · Post by **parisapartment** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 5:12 pm

I've just had a listen and it sounds pretty cool or fat even as weeddigger pointed out! Nice going.

piZMo · Post by **piZMo** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 9:54 pm

watch this...

Sub Focus turorial part 1;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SK1ocGVDibg

Nick the Zombie · Post by **Nick the Zombie** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 10:00 pm

I would go at that bass sound in 2 phases, one for the very pure lowest end part and the dirty, distorted higher part. For the lower part, try a sine tone running through a saturator, and then low pass filter that. For the distorted, part, I would take maybe a basic sawtooth wave, run it through lots of flanging or phasing, and then hipass filter it so that it sits on top of the lower end part without becoming too muddy. For my money, the hardest part is getting the two parts to sit well with one another.

Another approach is to take one sound and run it into a rack, splitting the frequencies between the super low end rumble stuff and the higher frequencies, and then applying different types of processing to each chain.

Hope this helped,

- Nick

jamief · Post by **jamief** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 10:21 pm

Sounds alot like a minimoog which i use to own. Got a virtual one now and its just as good. Go to www.arturia.com and download the minimoog demo create the sound and then sample asingle bass note ( patch save is disabled on the demo) import to your sampler or simpler

re.mark · Post by **re.mark** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 2:06 pm

Its amazing that sound... never gets old to me... ive tried so much to get anything like it but cant. Saw a video interview with Rob Swire (the main guy behind pendulum) and he goes through that track, and plays that bass track alone and it sounds immesnse. He said he used zeta+ to do it, and it invovled loads of resampling. Hes a big NI user too, think he mentioned using Guitar Rig on it to get that amazing growling sound. Ill try and find the video for you if i can.

Theres a clearer sound of it in 'The Terminal' towards the beining. Guttted theres nothing as fierce sounding as that on the new album - hope hes not deleted the patch in one of his many rages of fury lol

Nogi · Post by **Nogi** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 8:01 pm

http://www.kvraudio.com/get/306.html

leedsquietman · Post by **leedsquietman** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 8:18 pm

or buy Sonar 7PE or 8PE for 500 bucks or so and the full version of Z3TA+ is included and have a great DAW with tons of nice plugins a la Logic.

Sorry mac fans, PC only.

jeskola · Post by **jeskola** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 3:21 pm

Dogs on acid > the grid.

Search for it - it's been discussed and analysed to death - several times

Don't post asking about it though, you'll most likely get pages of abuse.

re.mark · Post by **re.mark** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 2:27 pm

Audio of the sound from 'The Terminal' for all interested parties http://www.zshare.net/audio/513609359e064129/

Just been to get the videos and theyve been taken down

If anyone has the video interview with Pendulum from Future Music and would like to share, please do! That video was really interesting to watch!

yearlongyeti · Post by **yearlongyeti** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 3:30 pm

Thanks everyone, great help. Have just searched and see there is plenty of discussion on the net. I guess what I was woundering if it was possible to get a similar sound with ableton's soft synths?

UKRuss · Post by **UKRuss** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 4:18 pm

re.mark wrote:Audio of the sound from 'The Terminal' for all interested parties http://www.zshare.net/audio/513609359e064129/

Just been to get the videos and theyve been taken down
If anyone has the video interview with Pendulum from Future Music and would like to share, please do! That video was really interesting to watch!

Which months FM was that?