The Reese Bass Thread

[ieatfunk]

Im no any expert in this stuff but can still give a few tips:

1. At least for me, MIDI controller with knobs really helps you to automate stuff. Just link cutoffs/lfos/resonance/wt-position/stereo width etc. to controller and mess around with the knobs while playing the track. Record whole automation score to clips.

2. Sometimes when you split reese into multiple tracks and filter all of them differently, you will end up with pretty unbalanced sound with too much going on some part of the frequency spectrum. Theres always EQ to fix this but IMO better way is to get a filter plugin that has knob for subtle change to filter shape between HP<->BP<->LP.

Some interesting techniques! I wish I had more space to constantly have a MIDI controller out

Also, 1000th post! woop!

[PhotonOfficial]

HOLY CRAP AGAIN. The log distortion in Harmor is the crunchiest, most delicious distortion I have ever come across.

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Throw your reese in and apply distortion for instant crunchy boomyness.

(on a side note, for some reason the clips I post on soundcloud lack volume compared to most peoples. Why is this happening?)

[Echoi]

Couple of Malstrom's and a Subtractor for the 2 Reese's in this..

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[TherapyBE]

HOLY CRAP AGAIN. The log distortion in Harmor is the crunchiest, most delicious distortion I have ever come across.

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Throw your reese in and apply distortion for instant crunchy boomyness.

(on a side note, for some reason the clips I post on soundcloud lack volume compared to most peoples. Why is this happening?)

This sounds really good man.

[bouncingfish]

HOLY CRAP AGAIN. The log distortion in Harmor is the crunchiest, most delicious distortion I have ever come across.

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Throw your reese in and apply distortion for instant crunchy boomyness.

(on a side note, for some reason the clips I post on soundcloud lack volume compared to most peoples. Why is this happening?)

WOOAAAAH. How did you make the original reese, before harmor?

[Genevieve]

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Some random ass thing I found while going through my files. Forgot I made it except I hear a flanger in the highs and a chorus in the mids. Probably lots of automation in Renoise's guitar amp sim and camelcrusher. Probably can't use it so I'm just posting it here so I'll at least have done SOMETHING with it. Meh.

[Coolschmid]

Yo photon how are you getting your drums to come through so nicely with those heavy sounds?

[Murtagh]

HOLY CRAP AGAIN. The log distortion in Harmor is the crunchiest, most delicious distortion I have ever come across.

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Throw your reese in and apply distortion for instant crunchy boomyness.

(on a side note, for some reason the clips I post on soundcloud lack volume compared to most peoples. Why is this happening?)

Sounds good, but I wouldn't be too keen on having that as the most prominent bass, maybe as a filler. Harmor's distortions are all good, I like softsat a lot

[Murtagh]

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Lunacy Reese + Pitchbend + EQ + Low and High pass filters + Harmor Unison and Softsat

[Augment]

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Lunacy Reese + Pitchbend + EQ + Low and High pass filters + Harmor Unison and Softsat

nice one, would u be so nice to explain the movement in this?

[bouncingfish]

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Lunacy Reese + Pitchbend + EQ + Low and High pass filters + Harmor Unison and Softsat

Dude that sounds fantastic.
Should probably start a thread for this instead but: Does anyone know a good AU plugin that can do something similar to harmor's unison and/or distortion?
I love logic but I wonder why it can't use vsts.
Harmor looks+sounds awesome and there are so many sick reeses in this thread that has used it.

[Murtagh]

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Lunacy Reese + Pitchbend + EQ + Low and High pass filters + Harmor Unison and Softsat

Dude that sounds fantastic.
Should probably start a thread for this instead but: Does anyone know a good AU plugin that can do something similar to harmor's unison and/or distortion?
I love logic but I wonder why it can't use vsts.
Harmor looks+sounds awesome and there are so many sick reeses in this thread that has used it.

Alchemy is additive too, it can do what harmor does.

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Lunacy Reese + Pitchbend + EQ + Low and High pass filters + Harmor Unison and Softsat

nice one, would u be so nice to explain the movement in this?

sure, I first set up an eq doing vowels (I'm sure you all know this) and then just automated it to growl at the peak of the low pass automation, so it looks something like this: http://prntscr.com/17w9yu

That's the main part of the sound really, it's fairly simple, the initial reese is pretty much the exact one from the dodge and fuski tutorial. The effects chain was like this: http://prntscr.com/17wa4s PEQ2 is the vowel eq and the filter after is the lowpass. My vowel eq is like this: http://prntscr.com/17wadf and you automate the red thing I point at with the arrow.

[mthrfnk]

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Lunacy Reese + Pitchbend + EQ + Low and High pass filters + Harmor Unison and Softsat

Dude that sounds fantastic.
Should probably start a thread for this instead but: Does anyone know a good AU plugin that can do something similar to harmor's unison and/or distortion?
I love logic but I wonder why it can't use vsts.
Harmor looks+sounds awesome and there are so many sick reeses in this thread that has used it.

Alchemy is additive too, it can do what harmor does.

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Lunacy Reese + Pitchbend + EQ + Low and High pass filters + Harmor Unison and Softsat

nice one, would u be so nice to explain the movement in this?

sure, I first set up an eq doing vowels (I'm sure you all know this) and then just automated it to growl at the peak of the low pass automation, so it looks something like this: http://prntscr.com/17w9yu

That's the main part of the sound really, it's fairly simple, the initial reese is pretty much the exact one from the dodge and fuski tutorial. The effects chain was like this: http://prntscr.com/17wa4s PEQ2 is the vowel eq and the filter after is the lowpass. My vowel eq is like this: http://prntscr.com/17wadf and you automate the red thing I point at with the arrow.

Sounds sweet man but holy fuck those resonances in PEQ2

Whats LovePhilter doing out of interest?

[Hightrix]

My first try EVER with Reeses:

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and

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[bouncingfish]

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Lunacy Reese + Pitchbend + EQ + Low and High pass filters + Harmor Unison and Softsat

Dude that sounds fantastic.
Should probably start a thread for this instead but: Does anyone know a good AU plugin that can do something similar to harmor's unison and/or distortion?
I love logic but I wonder why it can't use vsts.
Harmor looks+sounds awesome and there are so many sick reeses in this thread that has used it.

Alchemy is additive too, it can do what harmor does.

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Lunacy Reese + Pitchbend + EQ + Low and High pass filters + Harmor Unison and Softsat

nice one, would u be so nice to explain the movement in this?

sure, I first set up an eq doing vowels (I'm sure you all know this) and then just automated it to growl at the peak of the low pass automation, so it looks something like this: http://prntscr.com/17w9yu

That's the main part of the sound really, it's fairly simple, the initial reese is pretty much the exact one from the dodge and fuski tutorial. The effects chain was like this: http://prntscr.com/17wa4s PEQ2 is the vowel eq and the filter after is the lowpass. My vowel eq is like this: http://prntscr.com/17wadf and you automate the red thing I point at with the arrow.

Thanks so much mate! Alchemy looks cool but can it really compete with the resynthesis + unison of harmor?
And thanks so much for the tips. The automation in pic 1 - how fast is it going?

[Ledger]

Spent maybe an hour working on this. I'd say this is my best reese yet, because once I start messing with filters, shit gets ruined. Tell me what you think.

(I only used the internal effects of FM8)

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Edit: Just to be clear, I am not finished working on this reese. I just thought I'd upload it and get some thoughts on it as it is so far.

[Augment]

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Working on cleaning this up but keeping the movement since I liked itttt. Not the easiest thing to do, but hopefully it will sound more awsm :3

[Toolman4]

@Hightrix: There are some good technical aspects going on in both examples...EQ/filter some of those highs and you'll be off to a descent start.

@sofarmusic: not so much dude...revisit how you're achieving movement, synthesis, and apply EQ...I wouldn't push that thing as it's kinda done-zo.

@blinkesko: Good shit homie. After all that pitching up, I was waiting for you to showcase how that thing farts (phases) after dropping it aggressively in pitch...I know you're just showing it off though...good stuff.

[Ledger]

@sofarmusic: not so much dude...revisit how you're achieving movement, synthesis, and apply EQ...I wouldn't push that thing as it's kinda done-zo.

Here's the reese finished (well, part of it). I just began messing with filters, bounced it, imported it into Reason, chopped it up into different parts, timestretched, then messed with the SSL HP/LP. I'd say it's pretty good for what it started out as.

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Edit: This chop didn't have any PB.

[Genevieve]

I never thought having sung in a death metal band would come in handy this way. But I've recorded myself doing death growls, pitchshifted and mangled them and used them as vocoder mods on neuroreeses. Seems to have potential. Haven't gotten the sound I want out of it yet, but I can tell that I can.