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First off - know the synth that you're working with to get your bass inside and out. Know all of its capabilities, and be comfortable with them, so that you can exploit it to its full potential.


Then plan out EXACTLY what you want your bass to sound like. Have it in your head. it used to be that I'd get so frustrated with not getting my basses to sound good, but that's because I was sort of just opening up massive or es2 or exs24 (or whatever I was using) and just docking around trying to make something cool.
Know what you want to make.


THEN start dicking around on your synth

Don`t just pitch the bass to different octaves, you will still have major clashing frequencies.
Each track will need to be separately eq'ed to sit in it`s own frequency range.
That is why most distorted bass lines are frequency split to achieve different effects in the separate frequency ranges.

really having each bass sound sitting an octave above the next is bad hey? weird someone in another forum told me that's usually the best way to do it. So should my sub, mid and high all be sitting on say C-1? or just pick an octave. I am a bit confused with this..because say i did have sub on c-1, mid on middle and high on c1.

Couldn't i just use the pitch on the ocs, to tune it? so example if i was sitting on c-1 and i turned my ocs pitch up 12 st, then wouldn't it essentially be sitting on c1 then?

Yeah it would. You can do whatever you want, you just have to compensate.
If you eq each octave so it occupies its own space it won't sound so hollow

so in the video i posted, i solo'd each channel so you guys could hear basically what i'm hearing. is that all wrong? I'll give it some more shots and will keep trying as i find challenges to be fun.

Ghost of Muttley wrote:Yeah it would. You can do whatever you want, you just have to compensate.
If you eq each octave so it occupies its own space it won't sound so hollow

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you`d ideally want the sub mid and highs hitting on different octaves, that part is fine.
But you can`t just leave it like that.
Eqing is vital to reduce muddiness.