The Reese Bass Thread

[grooki]

Just uploaded one... it's in my sig

nice one, you have the frothy sound down. Comprehensive production too

[nasteeN8]

tune in my sig was made the old fashion way and i know this technique has been discussed before but for those of you who havent heard of it heres how its done. firstly i made a double notch filter doubled it then mapped the frequencies of all the notches to a macro to sweep up and down the frequency range. then i set up 4 instances of my favourite reeses that were made in massive or NIs razor played a 30 second long note and simply drew in a ton of automation using the macro on the double notch i had just made and made sure i had a ton of movement going on and the filter sweeps all worked together. then a slapped a sub bass behind it all and bounced the big note to audio. took that sample put it in a sampler with a phase and morph filter on it which i mapped to an lfo, then put a glide on the note and thats basically it. from there you can mess around with multiple instances of this synth youve made and can come up with some pretty gnarly sounds.

[CE9958]

Fucking awesome song

[Huts]

this is pretty unreal

I know teknian posts around here maybe he'll drop some knowledge. Aside from a ridiculous amount of distortion I don't quite know where to go with attempting this one

[grooki]

this is pretty unreal

I know teknian posts around here maybe he'll drop some knowledge. Aside from a ridiculous amount of distortion I don't quite know where to go with attempting this one

That is really nice, particularly the chords. The reese is good too, although I prefer the lp'd reece which opens up periodically. I think the twists in that one were done with a notch?

[Burgeamon]

Never tried the whole reese thing so had a play tonight and came up with these two sounds (although admittedly the first one is FM8 the second one is more reesey.. would love thoughts / comments / ideas for other things to try.

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[ephyks]

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My Reese Bass that I spent all yesterday making.

[Kilo beats]

I was chatting to Billain (imo the king of the twisted reece) not long ago. he says the thing with reeces is to grow them like plants and breed them into new elements, he said to keep doing this until interesting new breeds appear..

he dosent see a reece as a bass or whatever, just as another type of sound that can be layerd and manipulated with any other sound to make new and even more intresting sounds. he has a Q & A on the grid where he talks about his phelosophy (spelt that wrong ) on making sounds..

im thinking of just spending a week solid making a ton of reeces and mangling them together.. then after i have a lot of variations ill keep the ones that sound cool, and bin the ones that aint!

[Artie_Fufkin]

Here's a few recent reeses. What do you think?

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[zeta]

Been getting some interesting results in Ableton by making a moving sound in Massive, converting it to audio (i.e. resampling) then dragging the audio into the sampler.

From then just play around with the sampler settings - add spread, LFO, reverse it, etc. Also don't forget that if you play it in the sampler higher or lower it'll speed up or slow down. This can actually get some really interesting progressions and sounds.

Once you've done that, I usually make some automation in the sampler's own filter, then add some more automation with an autofilter. Since this thins it out then I add your typical distortion, saturator, etc.

For filters I particularly like using bandreject or bandpass, since if you automate it well you'll get that really interesting phasey sound which is quite typical with certain reeces. The problem with it is that it can also thin it out, therefore you need to add distortion - however here I'd like some recommendations, since all my distortion seems to be doing is making it loud and harsh, not 'thick'.

You can do this method as many times as you prefer, though I usually only do one resampling and leave it at that. And typically I'll resample multiple times from a single bass sound, creating different settings and automations for each one which I then layer and make into a song.

[jrisreal]

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[ehbes]

Been working on this for a while and was wondering if i should continue with it


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[Eat Bass]

heres a reese I'm working on. its not final though I'm going to go back and do more eqing at every step during the fx chain, then resample it again. cuz it sounds messy right now. or i may just start another one cuz this one kind of sucks.

btw the bass line is not staying, i just threw it together for some context. I'm liking my drum sounds though.
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edit: and yeah ebrums i would continue that, sounds pretty cool.

[jrisreal]

heres a reese I'm working on. its not final though I'm going to go back and do more eqing at every step during the fx chain, then resample it again. cuz it sounds messy right now. or i may just start another one cuz this one kind of sucks.

btw the bass line is not staying, i just threw it together for some context. I'm liking my drum sounds though.
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edit: and yeah ebrums i would continue that, sounds pretty cool.

That sounds amazing, man. Definitely keep that.

[Eat Bass]

heres a reese I'm working on. its not final though I'm going to go back and do more eqing at every step during the fx chain, then resample it again. cuz it sounds messy right now. or i may just start another one cuz this one kind of sucks.

btw the bass line is not staying, i just threw it together for some context. I'm liking my drum sounds though.
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edit: and yeah ebrums i would continue that, sounds pretty cool.

That sounds amazing, man. Definitely keep that.

thanks zach. any other feedback is welcome! good or bad, every little bit helps.

[cmgoodman1226]

heres a reese I'm working on. its not final though I'm going to go back and do more eqing at every step during the fx chain, then resample it again. cuz it sounds messy right now. or i may just start another one cuz this one kind of sucks.

btw the bass line is not staying, i just threw it together for some context. I'm liking my drum sounds though.
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edit: and yeah ebrums i would continue that, sounds pretty cool.

That sounds amazing, man. Definitely keep that.

thanks zach. any other feedback is welcome! good or bad, every little bit helps.

This definitly could be made into something really nice, but as you said it sounds a bit messy as of right now. I'd add in some filtering or envelopes and some more distortion and then clean it up. Also the drums are decent but the reese itself sounds pretty thin up against that snare IMO.

Anyways, here's a little something I started working on. The reese was made in FM8 and I sent it into Kontakt. It needs a lot of work but I like it so far.
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[Eat Bass]

heres a reese I'm working on. its not final though I'm going to go back and do more eqing at every step during the fx chain, then resample it again. cuz it sounds messy right now. or i may just start another one cuz this one kind of sucks.

btw the bass line is not staying, i just threw it together for some context. I'm liking my drum sounds though.
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edit: and yeah ebrums i would continue that, sounds pretty cool.

That sounds amazing, man. Definitely keep that.

thanks zach. any other feedback is welcome! good or bad, every little bit helps.

This definitly could be made into something really nice, but as you said it sounds a bit messy as of right now. I'd add in some filtering or envelopes and some more distortion and then clean it up. Also the drums are decent but the reese itself sounds pretty thin up against that snare IMO.

Anyways, here's a little something I started working on. The reese was made in FM8 and I sent it into Kontakt. It needs a lot of work but I like it so far.
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thanks man. like i said i worked on the drums mostly and just threw together the bass. my snare is pretty big . but yeah I'm finding it hard to make a reese I'm happy with. ill try working on it more later.

btw yours sounds pretty damn amazing. arrangement is good too. maybe a tad more eqing could be done. but i like the sound.

[ehbes]

^ I agree, sweet sound but a bid of a diamond in the rough...

[Augment]

Just made this one in 3xOsc.(with effects ofc) I really love reese's nowadays.
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I made a tutorial about this reese some pages back if you are interested. (This one has some other effects + I tweaked some of the effects already on it)

[ehbes]

Just made this one in 3xOsc.(with effects ofc) I really love reese's nowadays.
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I made a tutorial about this reese some pages back if you are interested. (This one has some other effects + I tweaked some of the effects already on it)