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Date: 29-Oct-02 @ 07:43 PM -
RE: Help! My bass sounds crap!
OK, I've had a good look through the search results (about 300 pages were returned - sheesh!) but couldn't find an exact answere to my problem. Most of the posts that I read were about getting big fat basslines and chunky sub-bass and big hollow basses, etc. But I am after just the opposite. It's quite hard to explain, but I'll have a go.
Basically, I find that I can come up with the afore mentioned bass sounds, but I fall down when I try to make the base very tight, smooth and punchy. I can do this easily with the ROM sounds from my electribe (see my track BatMoBeats for reference if you wish), by filtering, eq'ing, compressing, etc. This isn't what's troubling me. The trouble is whenever I try to synthesise a bass from scratch it always seems to sound too fat, hollow, noisy and wide. I've tried mixing it down and doing all the usual processing, but even that doesn't help. I can get tight leads and pads etc., but I seemed to have missed something major when it comes to synthesising bass.
Could anyone give me a good starting point for synthesising tight bass. Just the basics (filter settings, and oscilator settings.). I would be soooo greatful.
Thanks again.
Steve.