How do I Make a nice Eski/Grime Bassline on Reason?

[shankstep]

Like this...

And this....

I'm wanting to achieve that really hollow sound, like a lot of eski bar/grime tunes.

If anyone can help that'd be grand.

I'm using Reason 4.

[honey-d]

detuned square waves my man

[shankstep]

So say if I'm using subtractor. have both octaves at 0?

[honey-d]

have 3 square wave octaves. First one at zero. Second one at 0.07. Third one at -0.07. Experiment a bit with the numbers, the bigger the numbers the more noticeable the phase is. The general rule I'd always heard was to keep the two detuned at the same number, ie 0.15 and -0.15 or 0.07 and -0.07. Play around with that and you should find the tones you're looking for

[therook]

Cool song bro I like the CS:Source stabbing samples lol. Seriously the bass is just square waves. Just set 2 or 3 up and detune them by 20 cents or so on the fine tuning knob.

[paravrais]

As is so often the case when people ask questions like this the real trick to making it is in the smaller details you would probably overlook. Sounds like they are giving it a bit of attack on the filter envelope plus a relatively high setting on the amp envelope release. High pass it quite high, maybe a bit of reverb too. Top tip for using reason, put everything inside combinators. Seriously. Never just jam your instruments out naked, make a combinator then make a line mixer inside it then create 2 subtractors connected to the line mixer, then add a rever unit as a return on the line mixer. Got youself the beginnings of a patch now XD

[paravrais]

I had a spare minute so I made you a combinator patch.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/aswkgj

Hope you find that useful

[kontigobeats]

Im also looking for a sound like in that gemmy track! Have tried with square waves but cant get it sounding just right! Any tip for how to make it using Fl Studio, 3osc, orhow to make it in massive or albino 3, or if anyone is kind enough to make a patch that would be good! Cheers

[Echoi]

I had a spare minute so I made you a combinator patch.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/aswkgj

Hope you find that useful

Im gonna download that and LOOK at it, my soundcard has just stopped working for some reason

[jsills]

As is so often the case when people ask questions like this the real trick to making it is in the smaller details you would probably overlook. Sounds like they are giving it a bit of attack on the filter envelope plus a relatively high setting on the amp envelope release. High pass it quite high, maybe a bit of reverb too. Top tip for using reason, put everything inside combinators. Seriously. Never just jam your instruments out naked, make a combinator then make a line mixer inside it then create 2 subtractors connected to the line mixer, then add a rever unit as a return on the line mixer. Got youself the beginnings of a patch now XD

great pointers here.
id just like to add that you can use the square bass' lowend for you sub but what i normally do is high pass it and take out the sub on the square bass and have a dedicated sub to layer under it. for me this adds a whole lot of thickness without having to split my bassline and isolate the sub. j

[abs]

any ableton advice on creating eski bass sounds? step by step please, i'm very stupid.