The Reese Bass Thread

[Method]

Played with bandpasses:

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And after edits.

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[dotcurrency]

Got bored, made some reeses:

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[Method]

You guys should get harmor and use bandpass filters more, use like two in a audio effects rack or something:

Think im finally understanding the process of arrangement for reeses:

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[Fowles]

You guys should get harmor and use bandpass filters more, use like two in a audio effects rack or something:

Think im finally understanding the process of arrangement for reeses:

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can you elaborate? I'm mostly interested in how u get ur reeses to sound all squelchy kinda like KTN. I havn't tried harmor's bandpass. will try tday.

[Method]

You guys should get harmor and use bandpass filters more, use like two in a audio effects rack or something:

Think im finally understanding the process of arrangement for reeses:

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can you elaborate? I'm mostly interested in how u get ur reeses to sound all squelchy kinda like KTN. I havn't tried harmor's bandpass. will try tday.

Well actually, these are just square waves with various resample steps, each with their own purpose.

First i get a nice cleanyly distorted square wave reese patch, usually il seperate it into three bands, lows, mids, highs, and add different effects to each band (crunchy distortion on highs, more chorus, meaty distortion on mids, less chorus, nothing on lows).

From there, i pop on fab filter volcano and use TWO bandpasses, the trick is to have the bandpasses touching as many frequencies as you can at all times. This means if you are automating one to pattern up and down back and forth, the other should do the same pattern in reverse , hitting peaks at different times.

From there you should have a bass with ALOT of movement. Its good to then bounce this out and put it in harmor, add slight unison (10% pitch different, classic mode, 2 unison, no phase difference, 0 pan) and log distortion fits nicely.

Resample and resample until you have a sound you like, chorus with low speed and low mix adds nice stereo effect.

[th3_ohmen]

Hey guys just wanted to throw this out there, Bandpass filters for the noisia style reese bass and detuning and phasing for the "resampled" sound, or you could just resample, all you do is put some attack on the resampled sound and it gets that modulated sound that goes faster and slower according to your pitch, the best thing about reese basses...you can do anything with them, and they sound better than "growls" IMO, and growls have the same concept actually, bandpass fo life, here's an example of my bandpass bass, thick, bouncy and heavy, like the fat tutu chicks you see at metal concerts!

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[th3_ohmen]

You guys should get harmor and use bandpass filters more, use like two in a audio effects rack or something:

Think im finally understanding the process of arrangement for reeses:

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can you elaborate? I'm mostly interested in how u get ur reeses to sound all squelchy kinda like KTN. I havn't tried harmor's bandpass. will try tday.

Sine shaper or hard clipper and a square wave, add unison and detuning, then send it through a noise shaper (if you have one) or just layer on the distortion, maybe like a tube and some fuzz

[balthazarely]

Played with bandpasses:

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And after edits.

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dam that third one has some nice movement, care to share some tips?

[balthazarely]

in the first example

[charles1]

this is my problem with reeses. I absolutely love the sound, but whenever I make a reese and play it over a drum loop, it sounds...meh. I feel like reeses are not meant for dubstep. They sound best in drum n bass. Does anyone have any good examples of really great use of reese in dubstep?

[Genevieve]

this is my problem with reeses. I absolutely love the sound, but whenever I make a reese and play it over a drum loop, it sounds...meh. I feel like reeses are not meant for dubstep. They sound best in drum n bass. Does anyone have any good examples of really great use of reese in dubstep?

Reeses in general or the modulated neuro stuff? I think they all have their place.

[Apex]

So I tried to make a Reese using lots of layers and resampling mixed with automations on a bunch of different plugins, didn't use any external plugins not included in Ableton Live apart from Massive for the bass patch, here is the result, not ideal but I'm starting to understand the basics.

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[charles1]

Reeses in general or the modulated neuro stuff? I think they all have their place.

I really like the reeses that netsky uses for example. but the one in that tune is nice. I was looking for a good example to illustrate how people like to use it in dubstep. thanks.

[Augment]

Two of my favourite tunes with some heavy reeses


There's lots of other great examples aswell, like the dungeon stuff, these were just the two I remembered off the top of my head

[Apex]

Layered a reese with a sub and added some reverb to an insert track, not amazing but anyone got any tips on making my reeces sound grimier and heavier? Or VST's that have a similair effect?

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[ieatfunk]

Layered a reese with a sub and added some reverb to an insert track, not amazing but anyone got any tips on making my reeces sound grimier and heavier? Or VST's that have a similair effect?

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What you need is a lot of distortion on that reese. Distortion creates harmonics which gives the grittiness.

[s3nate]

Hey guys! I have been reading this thread for a while and I got to say it has helped me quite a bit!

Here is my latest track I did with a friend... honestly we didn't really know what we were doing to create this sort of reese sound but the end result made me quite happy.

Let me know if you guys like it! I'll make a tutorial or just give the instrument rack out.

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[Apex]

Hey guys! I have been reading this thread for a while and I got to say it has helped me quite a bit!

Here is my latest track I did with a friend... honestly we didn't really know what we were doing to create this sort of reese sound but the end result made me quite happy.

Let me know if you guys like it! I'll make a tutorial or just give the instrument rack out.

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That is so god damn sick!
Can you teach us what you did or upload the instrument rack? I'm really interested to see what makes this sound.

[LogiSpark]

Messed around with Harmor and got this growling reece. I feel it needs improvement, any tips? Also if you think it's good enough here's a preset https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BymIj5j ... sp=sharing

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And I made a patcher preset that mixed a basic reece with a complex one, added chorus and Distortion with wave shaper.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BymIj5j ... sp=sharing

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Anything I need to change in this one?

[s3nate]

Hey guys! I have been reading this thread for a while and I got to say it has helped me quite a bit!

Here is my latest track I did with a friend... honestly we didn't really know what we were doing to create this sort of reese sound but the end result made me quite happy.

Let me know if you guys like it! I'll make a tutorial or just give the instrument rack out.

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That is so god damn sick!
Can you teach us what you did or upload the instrument rack? I'm really interested to see what makes this sound.

Thanks!! I'm glad you liked it. I'm too lazy to type out how I did it so here is the instrument rack
http://www.mediafire.com/?6bzsqrb96ruujb4
You will need Massive, FM8, FabFilter Pro-Q, Ohmicide, WOW Filter, izotope ozone 4 and sausage fattener