That is probably the coolest synth on the outbreak ep. It shares a metallic property with the terror squad bass, and the envelope or performer setting used sounds very similar as well, but the immunity bass sounds a lot more textured and interesting to me. it could very well be a similar patch where...

Great thread. Learned a ton from this in the past few months. The Seamless FM8 tutorial is great as well for those looking to do fm8 growls. I think the real magic is in the automation. I've come up with some pretty decent (i think) and very vocal growl basses using fm8 with just sin waves and a few...

I agree with start with a good sample. You can't make a killer snare with a crap sample. Try layering claps, toms, white noise. high pass below the fundamental, boost the fundamental. Some like to low pass, i find many samples have a lot of energy and volume in the 1-6 k range, a boost here (or a sc...

I think it's more important that the kick/snare sounds good, rather than be in tune. Tuning your kick to the same key as your song may not always be good, as it will likely be competing with all the other elements playing the same note quite often. Even having your kick's fundamental tuned up above ...

Best sub bass advice I've read is to low cut everything, use a pure sine, have it sit a few DB under the bass. A great trick for getting your sub bass and kick to play well is to use a Low Pass Filter (Steep cut off, -24 or 48db) on your master and listen to what is happening down there. Import some...