Bassnectar Sub Bass (Need advice)

Darby · Post by **Darby** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 1:05 am

Ok so i tossed in one of Bassnectars sub thumpers "Heads Up" into Logic Pro. I looked at an EQ vizualizer and was AMAZED at what I saw. It's almost as if the bass is HAND-DRAWN. You can see the difference between his song and mine. Disregard the grey area because it is analyzing "Pre-EQ". I've tried doing a lot of things to my sub bass such as bitcrushing, distortion, overdrive, and different waveforms. Nothing seems to give me the result I'm looking for. Does anyone know how to get more precise peaks in their bass? I'm at a loss here. Thanks!!

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Basic A · Post by **Basic A** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 1:14 am

Darby wrote:HAND-DRAWN

Answred yourself, eh?

Darby · Post by **Darby** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 2:11 am

Is it really????? How do i do that?

LordBid · Post by **LordBid** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 2:43 am

Woo Bassnectar is actually rollin to my town next month! right after sound tribe this month! But srsly I need to know this as well

thrush · Post by **thrush** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 3:04 am

just do what sounds nice to you. spectrum analysers are cool and all, but music is made for your ears not for your eyes

nowaysj · Post by **nowaysj** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 3:23 am

Use a sine wave for your sub, and keep other sounds out of the sub range through proper sample selection and artful eqing.

Never mind that hand drawn stuff.

Also note that your sub's fundamental is around 40hz, and his is around 80hz. Yours is a full octave lower. It is likely that his sub sounds fuller than yours because your speakers are more able to reproduce his sub's frequency range. Your speakers likely cannot produce the low low frequencies of your sub, so your sub sounds weaker.

Side note - you're also missing quite a bit of high frequency content in the definition range - the range that gives sounds their sharp edges, around 6-10khz. Also, you have more sound in the muddy range, around 300hz.

DjTrainWreck · Post by **DjTrainWreck** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 3:53 am

LordBid wrote:Woo Bassnectar is actually rollin to my town next month! right after sound tribe this month! But srsly I need to know this as well

Socal?

grooki · Post by **grooki** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 4:22 am

There is a great thread bouncing around with the title something like "EQing making my sounds 2d" or something. All about EQ and so forth, and Macc is in there who knows what he is on about.

As for me I would not bother loading another track into an eq and comparing them that closely - you are dealing with sound after all. Your track is different, so the lumps are different. Basically I would not go on a mission to get me track to have that shape in the analyser.

LordBid · Post by **LordBid** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 5:55 am

DjTrainWreck wrote:
LordBid wrote:Woo Bassnectar is actually rollin to my town next month! right after sound tribe this month! But srsly I need to know this as well
Socal?

Haha Montana!

narcissus · Post by **narcissus** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 7:08 am

yeah, bassnecatar's bound for my town pretty soon as well, central coast region cali... it's hilarious. i know a bunch of people who are like:

them: "dude, you going to bassnectar??????"

me: "mm... nnah.. it's good and all but i got better things to spend my money on." ( like fixing my laptop)

them: "OOOMMMGGG!!! WHY NOT??? WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU???"

me: "well... i can DJ my own shit. i like that music, but i can make it myself. why pay when you can get it for free

?"

no hate... much respect in fact, but honestly..

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