How is cinematic bass made?

[dubesteppe]

I tried searching for this but all i got was "Skrillex Cinema Bass Tutorials"

Anyways, I'm sure we are all familiar with the low rumbling sounds we hear in movie theaters when thunder/explosions occur. Heres an example http://www.freesound.org/people/ERH/sounds/34012/ Heres a picture of the waveform It lacks consistency that normal sinusoidal waves contain(which makes it rumble), and it also has many more harmonics How would a sound like this be made?

[Hircine]

gonna give a shot. Layer a big subby drum, a timpani and something with a deep skin sound like a taiko drum. distort those, stretch, low pass filter with a bit of resonance.

[Reversed]

I guess you would get the best results doing it like that sound engineer who explained the sounddesign in inception (the video is around here somewhere) other than that, layering it with orchestral stuff and loads of reverb are a good idea for a cinematic vibe I'd say. also, lowshelf pumping up dat bass

EDIT: almost forgot; Convolution Reverb can do some real magic if used right. Try using it with something with a sample of a similar spectrum as that freesound file that was recorded in a huge hall or something like that. Or maybe not anything like that but something that sounds like it. or whatever. Be creative.

[Brian Oblivion]

pitch and paul stretch

[didi]

pitch and paul stretch

paulstretch is such an incredible tool.

[baddaBOOM]

sine waves and filtering ran through some eq , i dont think it involves eq modulation unless your talking about the growls then thats something diffrent, he uses fm8 for growls

[ogunslinger]

[dubesteppe]

sine waves and filtering ran through some eq , i dont think it involves eq modulation unless your talking about the growls then thats something diffrent, he uses fm8 for growls

what about ocean waves instead of sine waves?

[mthrfnk]

sine waves and filtering ran through some eq , i dont think it involves eq modulation unless your talking about the growls then thats something diffrent, he uses fm8 for growls

what about ocean waves instead of sine waves?

Mexican waves would probably be better.

[jrisreal]

white noise >> low-pass >> limiter

[baddaBOOM]

Your question was obviously how the cinematic bass was made, im sorry i tried to help?

[Hircine]

Your question was obviously how the cinematic bass was made, im sorry i tried to help?

cinematic bass as in cinema, that place where you get shot and watch movies you know.

[Coolschmid]

The song isn't called cinematic you wad, its called cinema. OP is asking about how to make the subby bass that is in any sort of dramatic movie.

[RandoRando]

get a sine and slam your hand on the keyboard below middle C.

im serious, instead of playing one not, play like 3 or 4, you get that wobbly sine sound but in the lower pitches with an envelope on it, you got yourself a giant movie sub boom

[jrisreal]

get a sine and slam your hand on the keyboard below middle C.

im serious, instead of playing one not, play like 3 or 4, you get that wobbly sine sound but in the lower pitches with an envelope on it, you got yourself a giant movie sub boom

This. Layered with this:

white noise >> low-pass >> limiter

[Wrigzilla]

Basically take a sound, low pass it and then pitch shift it down until you're getting a lot of energy in the 20-50hz range.