noisia bassline attempt (feedback please) :D

[Mannyyyyy]

http://tinyurl.com/3hx2nnb

imitation leads to imagination imo so no

[Skrew]

Honestly, I didn't like it at all. The sound is annoying. Sort of like nails to a chalk board but in low pitch.

[VirtualMark]

http://tinyurl.com/3hx2nnb

imitation leads to imagination imo so no

agreed. also, if you haven't anything useful to add to the discussion, kindly piss off. posting patronizing links isn't helping anyone, if he wants to try to make noisia bass, let him. i get sick of people complaining when others try to learn their own way.

for the record, anyone who has ever used a synth preset(which includes a lot of top artists) has essentially copied someone elses sound. i'm pretty sure if i had access to noisias entire sound library, i couldn't make the same tunes they do. its what you do with them that counts, the sound design is only part of it.

[cmgoodman1226]

http://tinyurl.com/3hx2nnb

Hey, since you're the authority on what's original and what's not, I've noticed it's all the rage lately to put drums in a track, so should I leave them out? would it be considered copying if I used drums? Even the most "original" stuff is just an emulation in some way or another of something heard before, so that argument is really null and void.

[Burgeamon]

The 2 longer posts just above were incredibly helpful! Thanks guys!

I have one question though - what is a notch filter? Its a term I see a lot and I'm not totally sure what it is. My assumption was that you just take an EQ8, pick a frequency with a narrow Q and give it a pretty big boost. Then you can automate / modulate the frequency position for some cool noises etc...

No, that would be more like a formant (formants are resonant boosts in the areas associated with speech if I'm not mistaken). A notch would be to take OUT a chunk of the sound rather than boost. So pick a frequency, set it to a narrow q and automate. You can also automate the Q as well for a more dramatic effect. This can obviously also be done by using a notch filter as well.

Thanks! Thats cleared up an awful lot.

Which notch filter would you recommend?

[Electric_Head]

Any EQ will have a notch normally