bass(how can i make my bass sound like this.)

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UKRuss
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Re: bass(how can i make my bass sound like this.)

Post by UKRuss » Sun Mar 08, 2009 9:16 am

LOL! Man with tape recorder sits on bass bin at Jamaican dancehall...

tw1nstates
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Re: bass(how can i make my bass sound like this.)

Post by tw1nstates » Sun Mar 08, 2009 11:39 am

Get your bass, run it into a saturation plugin till it's quite a few db's over.

Send it along with the rest of your mix to a buss, add a tiny bit of verb to the buss, send this all to the output to another saturatiojn plug in and pump that sucker hard.

Am not in the studio at the moment so that was a listen on crappy mp3 speakers but it sounds just like they over loaded everything.

Alternatively you could just try playing the track back and overloading your mic (or possibly even phone recorder, sounds a little like the things you see on you tube when someone has held their phone up and recorded a live set.
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Dstro
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Re: bass(how can i make my bass sound like this.)

Post by Dstro » Tue Mar 10, 2009 2:49 am

Damn the sound quality on that video is wack. But if it's big bass your looking for add to your midi/audio track a saturator and up the drive as well as a EQ 8 up the low end to 70-80 hz. Also going to the clip view and where it sais beats click and select complex. This to me makes a small but noticable difference in the thickness of the bass.
Also i find that using the dynamic tube with the above listed options gives the bass a analog sound pumpin sound. I also use a maximizer (bbe d82) to phatten things up.

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