Yes, I know it sucks.
I don't really know why (simple: I was very bored), but I felt like creating a tutorial on this style of bassline that I figured out how to emulate today.
No I didn't use Massive or Wow or Ohmicide, I used Sytrus, some filtering and Harmor.
But you can substitute Sytrus with FM8 or any other FM synth and Harmor with any sampler and some VST effects.
Ok, so I started out by making a nasty FM bass in Sytrus [Patch: Click Here]
It sounds like This
Then, I added a dry comb filter and a dry bandpass filter [Plugin is Bifilter 2]
And a little EQ (Yes, I know I'm bad at EQ'ing)
And finally a bandreject filter.
Then I made some quick automation on the cutoff frequencies of the three filters:
I got this sound.
Then I sampled the sound in Edison and dropped it as an image into Harmor for resampling.
I increased the quality of the resynthesis on the "Advanced" tab and added a little distortion.
Here's where the important part of Harmor comes in. The unison effect is very helpful in achieving these reese-y modulated basses. Check out this guy for some more info on this and resampling in Harmor.
Then, I sampled in Edison, and loaded it back into Harmor, and repeated the process.
After doing this a few times, I ended up with this sound.
Pretty good, but it's lacking movement. So I added a crude bandpass filter in Harmor.
Automate the cutoff a bit and play at C5.
I got this sound after that.
That's basically how I achieved the sound. Sorry that this tutorial is kinda confusing and really bad, I'm no good at tutorials, especially because I can't get camstudio to work :/.
Anyways, if you take the sound, sample it, chop it up, and add some drums and a sidechain, you can get a sound like this.
That's pretty much as in depth as I can go, but the basic gist of this technique is this:
1.Make a nasty FM or subtractive bass.
2.Add some filtering and EQ'ing.
3.Resample in the VST/Program of your choice.
4.(If you resampled in Harmor) Use the unison tab to wet the sound.
----Repeat 3 and 4 as many times as you wish
5.Add one last wet filter and automate, automate, automate.
6.Cut it up.
7.Add drums, heavy sidechain, and some mid range basses/synths.
8.Success :3
If you don't have any of the synths or filters et cetera, here is a sample of the end product bass, played in C so you can just load it into the sampler of your choice and use it.
Thanks everyone!
-Ryan
I'm kicking my overuse of Massive. I didn't realize before how amazing Sytrus is.