The Reese Bass Thread

[tomz]

Hey guys its me again!

I decided to go back to my roots and stick to the plugin I'm most comfortable with (FM8) and create this monster sound. The initial patch consists of a single soft square wave carrier with two saw wave ops modulating it which are further modulated by Formant 8 waves. I then did some classic EQ modulation as you would for growl sounds (low peak, notch, high peak), bounced to audio and resampled in Harmor.

Amazing... I'm guessing you bounce a phrase/note to audio and then import that in harmor right? When doing that, do you automate any of the FM8 stuff or just the EQ you set up?

[PhotonOfficial]

Hey guys its me again!

I decided to go back to my roots and stick to the plugin I'm most comfortable with (FM8) and create this monster sound. The initial patch consists of a single soft square wave carrier with two saw wave ops modulating it which are further modulated by Formant 8 waves. I then did some classic EQ modulation as you would for growl sounds (low peak, notch, high peak), bounced to audio and resampled in Harmor.

Amazing... I'm guessing you bounce a phrase/note to audio and then import that in harmor right? When doing that, do you automate any of the FM8 stuff or just the EQ you set up?

Thank you:)

Before I bounce anything, I automate the amount that the carrier is modulated as well as the pitch. So if F is the carrier and it is modulated by D and E, I automate how much D and E are modulating F. It provides the main movement to the sound. After that I bounce the phrase to audio and use EQ automation as you would for growls (I discuss this a lot in the growl forum), then I bounce the phrase a second time and import it into Harmor.

[tomz]

Cool, thank you I was doing something like that last night but couldn't get it to sound good as you... I'll keep on trying tho but you seem to have skill for these sounds

[kaili]

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just how... this is the best reese ive heard, any ideas how he makes it soo crunchy?

[R3b_Official]

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just how... this is the best reese ive heard, any ideas how he makes it soo crunchy?

Not going to lie but sounds like old Nosia.... im clueless honestly and im sure no one on here would know or come close


But in other news! Ive been messing around more in massive and got some pretty wicked sounds. Wasnt trying to go for this reese thing but some wonky bassline instead and this came of it. At the end of the clip was my wonky attempt but came out crap.

The first part of each clips is just in massive and the rest in an fx rack i made with some crazy eq and chorus but i thought the sand alone patch was great!

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[Toolman4]

@ R3b: Play with foley sounds for the top layer. That reese has a VERY prominent top end. Eq, proper distortion, and layering with mid and sub would get you close.

[R3b_Official]

@ R3b: Play with foley sounds for the top layer. That reese has a VERY prominent top end. Eq, proper distortion, and layering with mid and sub would get you close.

I have no foley clips at the moment but if you want to you can add it your self and use the same patch or whatever project. Plus I'm super busy this week and don't have that extra couple hours fiddling with sounds and such.

I'm not really stingy with stuff and I think the basic patch is pretty great and other people can get other ideas from it lol

[LogiSpark]

After making my song with my brother, I've noticed that one of the reeses I made has similar modulations of the reese in Neonlight's Version 2 remix of Black Sun Empire- Brainfreeze. So I decided to remake the part of the song, horrible drums tho!

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Black Sun Empire- Variations on Black EP is killer, you have to check it out

[Toolman4]

Sorry R3b...I meant that post to be for kaili

my apologies. Though yours is quite different from the target reese..It's very metallic, phasy, and distant. Interesting to be used for FX I'd imagine or a unique pad?

[Ledger]

Here's my reese. Spent about the last 30 minutes arranging it to sound remotely decent. Made it in Reason. I'm rather proud of myself.

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Also, the drums were already arranged from maybe a month ago, and had just remembered that I had that project, so the reese and drums obviously aren't mixed well. Also, there is no sub underneath except for the low end that I hadn't EQ'd out from the reese yet, so...

[Eskimo]

After making my song with my brother, I've noticed that one of the reeses I made has similar modulations of the reese in Neonlight's Version 2 remix of Black Sun Empire- Brainfreeze. So I decided to remake the part of the song, horrible drums tho!

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Black Sun Empire- Variations on Black EP is killer, you have to check it out

Second part is nasty! How are you modulating it? I think I hear some pitch bend in there

[PhotonOfficial]

After making my song with my brother, I've noticed that one of the reeses I made has similar modulations of the reese in Neonlight's Version 2 remix of Black Sun Empire- Brainfreeze. So I decided to remake the part of the song, horrible drums tho!

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Black Sun Empire- Variations on Black EP is killer, you have to check it out

Second part is nasty! How are you modulating it? I think I hear some pitch bend in there

I think the second part is the original song that he tried to remake isn't it?

[Augment]

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Messing around with an fx chain, sounds pretty cool imo, need to automate the upwards ramp thingy in some other ways though maybe. Fun evening haha. Listed what I run through the fx chain in the soundcloud clip, first two are just 3xOsc, the default patch, then detuned saws with a tiny bit of stereo detune, then some samples c:
Can be fun to resample the results and chop it up etc

[Eskimo]

After making my song with my brother, I've noticed that one of the reeses I made has similar modulations of the reese in Neonlight's Version 2 remix of Black Sun Empire- Brainfreeze. So I decided to remake the part of the song, horrible drums tho!

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Black Sun Empire- Variations on Black EP is killer, you have to check it out

Second part is nasty! How are you modulating it? I think I hear some pitch bend in there

I think the second part is the original song that he tried to remake isn't it?

fak
silly me

[Augment]

...I like messing around xD
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[Fowles]

...I like messing around xD
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Not bad. Your snare is sick!

[Augment]

...I like messing around xD
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Not bad. Your snare is sick!

Thanks, I actually spend most of my time processing drums and whatnot, so that's awsm to hear c:

[ARTFX]

I did a reese tutorial today!

[Toolman4]

@ artfx: good tutorial. Have been following your work for awhile now and appreciate everything you do to give back to the community. Thank you!

The reese is of unique timbre and remains tonal and prominent in the mid range for presence.

Given the recent contributions to the reese/growl bass thread(s), people are beginning to see how important modulation/automation/macros are in shaping the movement of the sound. Timbre and compositional perspectives are where individualism takes place.

Cheers!

[ARTFX]

I just did another reese, really trying to find more interesting ways of modulation!

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And a reversed version:

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