Modulating your sub - tips and techniques

[amphibian]

Some people don't realize what a sine wave is, jrisreal

[ChadDub]

Whether or not it's a single frequency, putting a phaser on it will effect it.

[jrisreal]

Some people don't realize what a sine wave is, jrisreal

what makes you say that?
Phasing sines have pretty much the same effect as amplitude LFO, its true. And chad, no all a phaser will do is bring down the left and the right at different times it won't do anything helpful for the subbass.

[xrylex]

im just gonna skip all of my facepalm reactions to various things ive read in this thread and try to address the OP.


modulating pitch and amplitude are really the only two variables for the sub. so if you want more movement, do the painstaking process of copying (manually in most cases) any pitch bends and lfo movement from your midrange basses. this sounds worse than it is tbh.. im used to it now and just set aside a couple of hours when working on a track to knock this out.

as for adding to the plain-ness of your sine wave.. few things...
layer an additional oscillator an octave above your main sine, but make sure its only turned up maybe 20% in volume.

also, experiment with blending square waves/sine waves...
other than that.. slight tube saturation and slight compression.

some things are super complicated, this is not one of them. stick to basics and i think you will be happy with your results with just a few adjustments to what you are already doing.

for the love of god do not put a phaser on your sub.

[Atac]

im just gonna skip all of my facepalm reactions to various things ive read in this thread and try to address the OP.


modulating pitch and amplitude are really the only two variables for the sub. so if you want more movement, do the painstaking process of copying (manually in most cases) any pitch bends and lfo movement from your midrange basses. this sounds worse than it is tbh.. im used to it now and just set aside a couple of hours when working on a track to knock this out.

as for adding to the plain-ness of your sine wave.. few things...
layer an additional oscillator an octave above your main sine, but make sure its only turned up maybe 20% in volume.

also, experiment with blending square waves/sine waves...
other than that.. slight tube saturation and slight compression.

some things are super complicated, this is not one of them. stick to basics and i think you will be happy with your results with just a few adjustments to what you are already doing.

for the love of god do not put a phaser on your sub.

This^^

I love me a nice fat Sine/Square sub with some nice glide to it.

[Mannyyyyy]

for the love of god do not put a phaser on your sub.

[-[2]DAY_-]

drastically pitch down and low pass a 909 snare... modulate cutoff
i dunno, if yer bored, get freaky wittit. I found an awesome moog triangle wave pack on DOA a while back, that has delicious sub tones. i think pure sine sounds good, but i don't really buy that it's the only way.

I think the best part of sub bass lines is amplitude and pitch mod though. Think like a composer, not a producer