Making tinny, metallic bass

[selophaine]

In albino use square waves with the cream filter setting on 3, turn up saturation, BAM.

[magma]

Ring modulators maybe?

[Grimace]

Iv got erosion open doesnt seem to be making a difference? need to tweak anything? im a bit of a noob

we know ur a noob u repeated urself a few times mate

hehe

[shahbazi]

Im such a noob i told you im a noob multiple times. Get my point?????

[86.]

is erosion in 7...or only in 8?

if it's in 7 as well then I don't think I've even opened that plug-in.

[decklyn]

If you want like metallic bar 9 sort of bass sounds you need to explore bit crushing. A lot of that chip tune sort of feel comes from degrading your sound through bit crushing.
That high end sound in the tune posted sounds more like distorted sub with some eq and maybe a fast hp filter more than anything.

[Depone]

Some people are lucky and make/stumble upon a sick sounding bass. Sukh Knight is an excellent example. He uses the same bass patch in almost 60% of all his tunes.
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[moki]

A subtle flanger might help.

[decklyn]

Some people are lucky and make/stumble upon a sick sounding bass. Sukh Knight is an excellent example. He uses the same bass patch in almost 60% of all his tunes.
Resample

Yeah I think that's sort of how it happens. You take some basic sounds and you just start fucking with shit until it sounds huge.
You never know how it's going to end up. You just start noodling with shit.

[beerz]

in reason if u use the subtractor u can get it b4 any effects by turning up the phase velocity ammount right to the top. n ye bit crush with the scream 4, slam it on digital....

but duno if u can do that in albino?

[Sharmaji]

there's no bass in your bass

[shredexx]

Basically... i find the best way to do it is to layer at least 3 or 4 oscillators... pitched up and down in octaves accordingly... and send it to Filter 1. Now this is where it gets to fine tuning...

In Choose either cream setting in the filter drop down menu... then, select setting 3 on the filter type.

up the saturation up to about 2 o'clock....

Bring the filter cutoff down to about 8 o'clock.

Now you should have quite a nice ugly sounding sound.

Go to the effects section... Select Lo - Fi (bitcrush), activate it!

Put the bits to infinite and play with all those controls... this is where you make your metallic shit sound how you want it...

routing that FX to Filter 2 and refilter and send it back to another Lo Fi effect... lots of room for creativity.

[tastyfake]

A good way is to use two oscillators with the first being a saw tuned down an octave and then the second one being a digital, wavetable one on +3 octaves or something, when they're played together they're clashing because they're both very extreme sounds and then you get a tinny, metallic feel to do. If there's too much bass just change the osc mix and if it's too sharp, bring the second oscillator down an octave.

Another given for anything metallic is FM Syntheis, but you probably have to use it as another layer to standard bass part. Try playing around with the harmonics to get something that's as sharp as you'd like it.