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by Brian Oblivion » Mon Jan 23, 2012 11:18 am
tbh its not that involved, its just lots of distortion, the waveforms you use are almost irrelevant, I garantee you almost all the settings Ive got are different to what District did to get something roughly simillar. In this case I used mtalk, scrapyard and groan 1, and theres an lfo on a skream filter theyre all going through with a bit of res, the lfo is also attached to the mtalk wavetable and the scrapyard intensity, but really you can hook the lfo up to any of the wave tables or intensities to make different moving tones, it was pretty random what I hooked up, theres probably far more interesting sounds to be had by experimenting with it. The lfo on the scream lp filter is doing 90% of the work, thats really all it is.
The distortions are what gives it the tone. Ive got ring modulation on the mtalk osc, and Ive got it set to "Bend -" all the way up. The groan osc is set to "Blend +", again right up. The filters are set to series and theres a comb filter (filter 1) behind the scream filter (filter 2). Theres a "sine shaper" distortion on the inset between the two filters, and a "classic tube" distoriton on fx1. Ive also turned the feedback up a little. Hard to know when ur replicating the bass and when ur replicating youtube distortion tbh, but a little touch of all those distortions together gives it the tone. Its got a "Dimension Expander" and some unison detune on it to finish off. Then through chorus and eq, nothing crazy, just a tight dip around 430hz to give it some breathing room.
Of course I could just give you the patch, but then Distance would have to kill us both. Really that bass sound is too Distance, I couldnt bring myself to use it as it is, its all about finding something unique, or at least something that isnt like someones signature sound but just a little more shit like ive ended up with here. Theres tons of dials that will change the tone, the wavetables, the bend +/-, the pitch of the comb filter, the amount of ring modulation, you can add phase modulation to one of the osc and modulate that, modulate the amount of res on the lp filter, the amount of all the distortions, the shape of the lfo (mines on a sine). The best thing you can do is try out diff wave forms, try hooking the lfo up to the different peramiters mentioned and see what happens. Another idea is to add velocity to some of those controls, then you can draw in the velocities for each note and slightly alter the tone where u want. Really you dont want my patch or districts, cause theyre unseable now, and youre gonna make something better than these if you keep fiddling yourself and learning by ear whats going on when you do things.
I didnt use a sub there, its just massive churning out, but Id recommend an 808 or an 808 mock patch on a synth like massive for subs, and maybe some multiband compression, squeeze the crap out of the lower mids to make it thick and solid, leave the tops wide open. Watch the distance tut again, its all there really, the core of what those guys are doing, just use your ears when adding the distortions in, add a little of each then go back and retweek, hear what theyre doing and which ones you need more or less of.
I see quite a few posts on the dark, wompy, subby bass things in this thread, its just lfos/envelopes like this distancy bass, like all moving bass, just dont open the filter as far, or if youre into your wavetables, find a table that moves from almost a clean sub into something thats got a bit more of a dark grow and slam an lfo on it, youll kick yourself when you get it right cause itll have taken you 30 seconds. And dont be afraid to saturate the shit out of everything Ive posted about, cant go wrong with a saturation vst.
been focusing on dungeon drums for a while. lots of helpful info in this thread thanks guys! 
this is too sick
