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i have been building a library of one shots for a while now that i use in ableton's sampler to make my basses. i feel like a lot of the basses ive made lack that low end punch and ive been thinking maybe the way ive been processing them pre-bounce is the reason why. ive recently been very careful with the stereo image of the sound but on some of the older ones its possible that i over done the stereo on the low end, resulting in less power and weight.

my question is, when you all are resampleing, do you keep mostly keep the sound mono and then after bouncing and process, spread the top end? im mostly wondering if it matters at what point i spread the top end of the bass audio, or if i can do it pre-processing/post processing....

Just run your samples through a monofilter or similar.

Yeah every time you process a sample you could potentially degrade it, especially the sub if you're using chorus, reverb or anything else that makes the sound wider. I find it's sometimes easier to just layer a sine sub in under a bass sound now, or I just duplicate the synth I'm working on and change it to sine.

I might be wrong, but I don't think that monofilter would help if the sub had stereo phase issues, as all the mono plugin would do is sum the signals and they'd still phase.