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Date: 28-Aug-02 @ 01:46 PM -
A Bass Forum?
I think we should have a bass forum. Anyways here's another one of my "no skills" questions.
I have 2 questions/discussion points.
1. I have been using both a Virus and more recently emagic's es1 for my bass. I'm not sure if its just me but the es1 bass patches (especially the beyond bass patch) don't sound meaty and defined until you write a bass line at the second octave. Down by C1-B1, it just sound like a low rumble. It's the same with the Reso bass patch on the virus. Down in the bottom octave it sound like a shitty "prog" bass. When you move it up to octave 2 it sound a bit comical.
It seems to me that the es1 gives a better bass sound when you use ocatve 2. Which leads me to my second question......
2. What key do you all write your tracks in? I've been using the key of "E" cos I've been reading that guitarists love this key and you can use the blues scale. I have been mainly using the notes E, G and D for my basslines. SO if I understand right I've been mainly using the root, the third and the seventh (but an octave below the root). This sounds kinda cool but when I transposed this 3 notes bassline up by 3 semitones ( ie to the root note of "G") it sounded so much better.
I know that G2 resonates at 196 herts and I have Tannoy Reveal monitors which obviously don't replicate club speakers so maybe the second octave sounds better than octave one cos my speakers don't go below 80 hertz and are more pronounced at low mid than low.
I know that yo have to write different tracks in different keys depending on the actual track but what key do you house heads tend to write in. Maybe the key of "G" is better for me than the key of "E"?
Am I thinking too hard about all this again?