The Reese Bass Thread

[LogiSpark]

You Appleton users are sure damn lucky

Jelle and Jesse also put together a free download for Ableton Live users – this .adg file is the bass and all of the effects from their Squirt The Daisies remix, plus screenshots of the settings in Operator and other plugins so that you can re-create the basses in this song yourself. You also also hear them explain how they made this bass in this podcast.

[LogiSpark]

Just going to leave this here. I've been finding great videos lately

[Rhodrijen]

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I made a pretty nice sounding reese in this one...if anyone wants to know about it let me know

[AUTO]

wow

[bouncingfish]

Great first post ^

[LogiSpark]

That bass has such amazing potential to be re-sampled, please give details


I've noticed that we've been "remixing" other guy's reeses lol. I think these past few pages have shaped up

[Brycegil]

After a couple of hours of tinkering, I came up with this Reese. 100% Ableton stock plugins and freeware. Let me know if anyone's interested in how I made it.

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[Augment]

Made something that sounds like a dog puking or something hahhahha
https://soundcloud.com/blinkesko/dogpuke/s-pxFKj

[titchbit]

I'm sorry I just don't understand why everyone wants to go and fuck with such a beautiful sound as a nice clean reese bass.

[Eskimo]

Made something that sounds like a dog puking or something hahhahha
https://soundcloud.com/blinkesko/dogpuke/s-pxFKj

Pretty sick

[Murtagh]

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FLP got corrupted so I can't tell you specifics but if anyone wants me to explain it some more I'm happy to do so.

[R3b_Official]

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FLP got corrupted so I can't tell you specifics but if anyone wants me to explain it some more I'm happy to do so.

I wouldnt mind any details tbh it sounds like a reese but its not? Its not the norm if you ask me. Like half reese and half growl.

[cmgoodman1226]

I'm sorry I just don't understand why everyone wants to go and fuck with such a beautiful sound as a nice clean reese bass.

things change and evolve; it's the natural progression of things. It's the main reason why not all music sounds the same (although some of it does). I don't understand how people expect and or think certain sounds should never be tweaked or reworked, or even touched...

[titchbit]

I'm sorry I just don't understand why everyone wants to go and fuck with such a beautiful sound as a nice clean reese bass.

things change and evolve; it's the natural progression of things. It's the main reason why not all music sounds the same (although some of it does). I don't understand how people expect and or think certain sounds should never be tweaked or reworked, or even touched...

yeah I get your point and I'm not saying people shouldn't make new sounds, but before reading this thread I didn't even consider the sounds in here to be reeses. I would have thought they were growls. I just feel like... how can you even call these reeses? It's so far from the original sound that it should be called something else besides reese IMO.

[LogiSpark]

We should call them S.D.S.W.T.A.S.H.T.T.D.D.A.N (Squelchy detuned saw waves that are so heavy that they don't deserve a name).I'll make a nice smooth reese just for you Dubunked

Anyways, More Frequent, this bass sound way easier to make

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[Murtagh]

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FLP got corrupted so I can't tell you specifics but if anyone wants me to explain it some more I'm happy to do so.

I wouldnt mind any details tbh it sounds like a reese but its not? Its not the norm if you ask me. Like half reese and half growl.

Well the original patch is a detuned saw and a square from harmor, I didn't resample this one. Basically you take the saw from harmor and do some pitchbends and draw out some suitable midi. I tend use harmor's built in filter and use both of them and I'll switch between the bandpass, highpass or the band phaser, which is completely up to you, when using the bandpass try find a sweet spot with the resonance. In harmor I'll bring the pan of the unison down to near 0 and then have the pitch at around 25%, then I use a quick envelope downwards on the unison pitch thickness. Then I go into the effects and mess around with log distortion and the chorus. If you activate part B and copy the settings from part A but do not automate anything in part B you get a cool effect, when you do this find the formant sweet spot with the bandpass and leave it there, don't modulate it. Everything you modulate will be from part A. It's up to you how you want to automate it, I automate the two filters of part A, but only a little.

Then I'll route it into Ohmicide and crunchify the mids (Try messing around with Ohmicides 3x Cube distortion from the selection for the mids), then I use Camelphat for a tiny bit of flanger and for tube distortion. Next comes your pitch fx and phasers and whatnot, I like to use a mix of FL's Flangus, Chorus and phaser, don't use a lot of each though, this part just adds movement to the sound. Then I'll mess around with the vowel WOW bandreject for some extra formants. Then I use S1 for some sterio separation.

Next, route that into a new mixer track (DO NOT TURN OFF THE ORIGINAL MIXER'S OUTPUT TO THE MASTER) and add some RBass and do some more distortion (not much). Finally route the original mixer track (which still has output to the master) and this mixer track to another, this is where you do the final filtering. I tend to polish up the sound with an EQ here, and then use a lowpass for all the movement. So you're not technically creating a bus, it's a bit different, not very conventional (Parallel processing on the lows alone isn't too common) but it works.

[Add9]

We should call them S.D.S.W.T.A.S.H.T.T.D.D.A.N (Squelchy detuned saw waves that are so heavy that they don't deserve a name).I'll make a nice smooth reese just for you Dubunked

Anyways, More Frequent, this bass sound way easier to make

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holy mother of fuck

[R3b_Official]

Thanks man! interesting stuff, too bad i use ableton on a mac soo no harmor for me So lately ive been trying to work on my resampling ablilities to make this womp mettalic bouncy wobble. I guess its not a reese or growl but idk were to post it.
This sort of thing has been driving me nuts! Posted a couple threads about it and no really knows.... im getting there though

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[Add9]

Here are a few more reese basses that I made while messing around today!

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[Augment]

I'm sorry I just don't understand why everyone wants to go and fuck with such a beautiful sound as a nice clean reese bass.

things change and evolve; it's the natural progression of things. It's the main reason why not all music sounds the same (although some of it does). I don't understand how people expect and or think certain sounds should never be tweaked or reworked, or even touched...

yeah I get your point and I'm not saying people shouldn't make new sounds, but before reading this thread I didn't even consider the sounds in here to be reeses. I would have thought they were growls. I just feel like... how can you even call these reeses? It's so far from the original sound that it should be called something else besides reese IMO.

I totally get your point, but just like dubstep evolved and included new sounds, the reese bass did aswell. It may have started with the detuned saws, then someone added a lowpass filter and some disto, then someone added a notch into that etc and it just slowly expanded the meaning of the word reese. Nowadays a reese can mean so many different sounds, but for the most part the core of the sound is still the same.
By the time the reese had evolved into sounds that did not sound anything like what the original did, it was too late to come up with a new name that everyone would use for these new sounds.

Also,

Made something that sounds like a dog puking or something hahhahha
https://soundcloud.com/blinkesko/dogpuke/s-pxFKj

Pretty sick

Cheers