The Reese Bass Thread

[mthrfnk]

Made this for a tune the other day. Basically I make a chunk of notes using midi and then bounce it to where its at in this clip and then chop the best little parts of it into a song and throw Low Pass or SideChain on it, sometimes nothing at all.

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I like the middle, if you stagger chopped it it would sound like Optimus Prime

[hhans]

Does harmor come for Mac OSX?

[dotcurrency]

Did a bit of experimenting with this one, not sure why but it sounds a bit boring - looking for ways to make the sound move a bit more Using Reason 5 at the moment Soundcloud

Nice sounds man. My only critique is that it's lacking that higher end crunch.

Here's one that I made in the context of a song I'm working on. I'd be happy to put a little tutorial together on here if there's any interest. It's a pretty simple bass.

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Cheers!

Then please do! Looking forward to this tut nice clean sound

[Method]

Aiming for Koan/Culprate/Reso sound,

Particularly like the first one, has that crunch ive been looking for.

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Any tips or questions?

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[RandoRando]

^^^too much hi end imo, needs more weight. good movement though

[Eskimo]

Aiming for Koan/Culprate/Reso sound,

Particularly like the first one, has that crunch ive been looking for.

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Any tips or questions?

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Hints on how you made it? Moves really nicely!

[Method]

Aiming for Koan/Culprate/Reso sound,

Particularly like the first one, has that crunch ive been looking for.

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Any tips or questions?

Edit: Added more beef.
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Hints on how you made it? Moves really nicely!

Im in class now, but i can walk you through the exact process later if youd like. its basicly resampling with a focus on bandreject, distortion, and eventually WOW filter.The key is to use a specific midi and give it somr movemrnt in the sweet spot accoeding to the midi, the first one illustrates that the most.

[hhans]

Here's one that I made in the context of a song I'm working on. I'd be happy to put a little tutorial together on here if there's any interest. It's a pretty simple bass.

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Cheers!

This was all done in Ableton Suite 8 but could be done in any DAW. Mind you, this is the process as I recall it so you won't get the same sound. Play around with each step too, you could get very different results.

Okay, I started with a single oscillator saw or square wave in Massive, but it doesn't really matter which you use. Turn up the feedback knob pretty much all the way until it is resonating on one pitch, it'll be clipping pretty badly but just let it clip. It can be any note as long as it's low because it'll be in a sampler eventually. For a little extra pitch control you can run the square/saw wave through Massive's lowpass filter and play with the Cutoff and Resonance. Record a single note for about 2 bars, freeze the track and flatten it (also called bouncing the audio/exporting as audio file) and then leave in the arrangement. Copy the entire track (should be in an audio track now) and line both audio files up in the arrangement. Now detune them from each other. Group the tracks together by selecting both of them and pressing ⌘+G or Ctrl+G. Name the group something like detuned waves for organization's sake. Create an empty audio track that receives audio from the detuned waves group track and record the audio into it, you should have a single audio file now that sounds like detuned clipping square waves. Drag the audio file into a sampler, make sure it loops correctly, and drag your favorite distortion into the effects chain (I used Native Instruments' Driver), record a couple measures of a single pitch, bounce it down to audio again, repeat if desired but make sure your end product is an audio file, not MIDI. Once you're satisfied with the sound, put a highpass filter on it and cut at about 100-200Hz. I drew in volume envelopes that looked like this:

http://i.imgur.com/g5QVlgv.png

Then I made a sub in Operator that had a volume envelope that kind of followed the one that I put on the top part of the bass. It looked like this:

http://i.imgur.com/nJvobPp.png

and I just wrote in midi for every modulation in the top part of the bass.


I realize I rambled a bit, but that's because this isn't exactly a science. These are the steps as I remember them, so you'll probably get a better end result if you do your own thing based on the steps I used. Enjoy!

TL;DR: The main part of the sound is from detuned square waves clipping a lot, NI's Driver distortion plugin, and volume envelopes. Layer a sub underneath the whole thing. Driver was free a while ago, don't know if it is anymore.

[BLASKO]

any idea how to make reese like this????? 00:29

[mthrfnk]

Definitely sounds like something made in Massive and fucked with in FL Granuliser.

[BLASKO]

^^^^^^^^^i have fruity granulizer lol but have no idea how to use it hahah
i see you have some pretty narly reeses in your songs,
care to give some tips??
like maybe a tutorial or explanation on that cool reese you have going once and a while in your song (in-the-city-more-wip-stuff)
sounds like it either has alot or chorus or verb on it lol sound awesome

[mthrfnk]

^^^^^^^^^i have fruity granulizer lol but have no idea how to use it hahah
i see you have some pretty narly reeses in your songs,
care to give some tips??
like maybe a tutorial or explanation on that cool reese you have going once and a while in your song (in-the-city-more-wip-stuff)
sounds like it either has alot or chorus or verb on it lol sound awesome

FL Granuliser can be hard to use, as a really basic starting point bounce out a note from a synth - just use a saw or simple reese. Drag it into FL Granuliser, play a note (c5 will be your root), turn the attack/hold/g.sp knobs to zero and mess with the w.sp knob from arround 12 o'clock to 3 o'clock, automating this can get cool effects.

That track the main reese/growl was done in z3ta+2, I did it ages ago so can't remember what I did without opening the project, afaik I used a flanger and WOW filter on it. I'll look it up tomorrow when I'm back at my PC. The reese sweeps every 4 bars were reeses I messed with in FL Gran.

[BLASKO]

tried the granulizer, got some cool movment but the sound was awfull
how do you get your sample to come out more, what knob can destroy/help your sample

[HollandVW]

My main problem when using Reeses is always structuring them together in a way that sounds good. I'm currently working on something, but I can't get anything to sound good together.

[mthrfnk]

tried the granulizer, got some cool movment but the sound was awfull
how do you get your sample to come out more, what knob can destroy/help your sample

Made this in five minutes just to show you pictorally:
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[dotcurrency]

tried the granulizer, got some cool movment but the sound was awfull
how do you get your sample to come out more, what knob can destroy/help your sample

Made this in five minutes just to show you pictorally:
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Following his image, I made this:
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0ygES1F8cEM
(too lazy to upload to soundcloud)

First is with some distortion techniques I picked up on (but they're applied just slightly too much) and 2nd is just granulized, then sampled AGAIN and modulated with a notch filter and lowpass.

[Aufnahmewindwuschel]

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another reece influenced tune i work on atm or yeah worked on got tired

[ephyks]

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Not sure if this is anywhere near good, but this is how I got that "teknian" sort of fuzzy reese.

Start off in FM8. Set Master tune to -24. Route a sine wave to X. In X put the cutoff to 100 and the amp to 65-78. Then basically distort, resample, distort, resample.

[Murtagh]

First post

Here's a reese resampled in FL using Camelcrusher and some Flanger
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If you have anymore questions just ask

[Eskimo]

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Care to go a bit more in depth? That reese got some nice movement!