Need help fattening up this bass synth

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Need help fattening up this bass synth

Post by dotcurrency » Sat Jul 13, 2013 10:24 pm

Okay, so I'm doing this kind of "big synth" style drop for once and I like what I have so far except that I want to add more thickness to the lower part of my synth. Here's what I have:

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as most of you probably already know the key to big synth/seven lions w.e styled drops are layering the synths. I like what I have for the chords' highs and mids but the lower end synth I wanna make it more aggressive and thick. any ideas?

Right now it's a triple saw a lot of voices and very small amount of detune running through a double notch filter thats being automated by a LFO very slightly to give it some movement. (pretty simple, nothing spectacular)
For FX I have trash for distortion, camelphat, little bit of sausage fattener, then fabfilter saturn to help it sound a little less digital/more analog warmness. And then of course the rudimentary eqing of bad frequencies and compression

It's hard to describe how I want the low end to sound but I want it to kind of stick out a bit and not just thicken up the chords.
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Re: Need help fattening up this bass synth

Post by Augment » Sun Jul 14, 2013 4:34 pm

To be honest, I'd smash the supersaws you have now into a limiter or something, if you want that 'big synth'. Then I'd layer a distorted saw wave underneath it, maybe some orchestral layer aswell to make it sound really full and warm. Did it in this tune:
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It's old though, but decent enough example
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Re: Need help fattening up this bass synth

Post by mthrfnk » Sun Jul 14, 2013 5:06 pm

In terms of thickening everything you need more layers in the chords as blinkesko said, the highs seem lacking and maybe add more width. I'd then layer a distorted low passed saw and a thick sub under them, both of these set to mono.
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Re: Need help fattening up this bass synth

Post by dotcurrency » Sun Jul 14, 2013 5:39 pm

thanks guys! I'm gonna do a combination of both of what you posted
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Re: Need help fattening up this bass synth

Post by mtl6 » Tue Jul 16, 2013 3:37 am

I would layer it with a touch of white noise, play more (higher) notes in the chord, and then throw a dimension expander on it... the one from here is good: http://www.xferrecords.com/freeware/
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