ok this bass sound was used in EVERY grime/bassline instrumental i can think of when i was growing up. in that case i can imagine it being really simple but can anyone give me guidelines on how to emulate this sound exactly, like is there glide on this or what?
thanks in advance.
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Re: The 'help me make this sound!' thread
Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2010 12:50 pm
by Fdawg
any help is appreciated but i am trying to make a sound similar to Bar 9's bass sound on "Midnight"
Might not be too much help on the high pitch robot wobble, though. Sounds very organy, like there are a lot of octaves. Also sounds like there could be an ADSR-type envelope modulating the cutoff (as opposed to an LFO)...?
the noise im talking about starts at about 0:26
its the high pitched kind of arp'd laser beam sound...
been trying to reproduce it with delay but its not quite working...
the funny part is i actually know these guys, theyre a couple of the the few producers
ive actually met in real life... sad thing is asking them how they made a certain noise
is like pulling teeth, or asking a magician how he made that elephant disappear.
FL9...
Re: The 'help me make this sound!' thread
Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 5:25 am
by Isturite
I've actually been trying to create this video game sounding lazer thing... Lazersword (which is just like this group you posted, you should check em out.) uses those same sounds. I was messing around with something and got something close using absynth 5 using some sawtooths for the waveforms, and a sawtooth lfo on the amp to give it that ... "blip-blip-blip" sound
Re: The 'help me make this sound!' thread
Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 5:27 am
by Isturite
P.S. I have a sample of that kind of sound if you want it and cant recreate it.... got it from MTF magazine disc, it's called "gamesynth"
Re: The 'help me make this sound!' thread
Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2010 2:07 am
by dizzy035
hey guys just a question about a sound used in heaps of songs, its the slow wobble before a series of fast ones. for example in caspa's wheres my money.
i've been working on it for like 3 months ever since i first heard it.. sounds like there's some kind of phaser on top or sumthing but i just cant get it!!!! also do you guys know if he's using albino or massive? i feel like i got closer 2 it in albino one day but still no go...
explained that one back near the beginning somewhere
@ joekool that bassline is a ramp down lfo with some flanger he changes the shape of the lfo when it slows down to a ramp up
Re: The 'help me make this sound!' thread
Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2010 5:38 am
by chewie
and benga uses albino btw descending sounds like a saturated square wave with some dig wave added. Also sounds like he's using the cream filter and having lfo modulating the distortion on the filter as well as cut off
Re: The 'help me make this sound!' thread
Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2010 1:22 pm
by singlepoint
Have been trying to come up with similar bass sounds to those in Goblin & Spongebob by Coki and the main bass sound in Cybermen by Magnetic Man, any help would be awsome cheers!
singlepoint wrote:Have been trying to come up with similar bass sounds to those in Goblin & Spongebob by Coki and the main bass sound in Cybermen by Magnetic Man, any help would be awsome cheers!
My way of getting something sound "electric" is using several different short delays as insert effects. And with short, I mean short - like 12ms, 16ms and 20ms, make sure they are pretty dry.
EDIT: Make sure to put a limiter on the channel because when you are using multiple delays, the gain goes up really fast. (I blew up my hi-fi speakers while working with delay/chorus - forgot to put a limiter.... )
Re: The 'help me make this sound!' thread
Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 7:52 pm
by singlepoint
kejk wrote:
singlepoint wrote:Have been trying to come up with similar bass sounds to those in Goblin & Spongebob by Coki and the main bass sound in Cybermen by Magnetic Man, any help would be awsome cheers!
My way of getting something sound "electric" is using several different short delays as insert effects. And with short, I mean short - like 12ms, 16ms and 20ms, make sure they are pretty dry.
EDIT: Make sure to put a limiter on the channel because when you are using multiple delays, the gain goes up really fast. (I blew up my hi-fi speakers while working with delay/chorus - forgot to put a limiter.... )
cheers man i didnt think of that all! thanks!
Re: The 'help me make this sound!' thread
Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 2:47 pm
by kejk
singlepoint wrote:cheers man i didnt think of that all! thanks!
No problem, I remember the day I found out how to make those electric sounds... I was so happy :>
Re: The 'help me make this sound!' thread
Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 1:32 am
by Neff
probably an easy one but id just like to know as a starting point
the wobble that Mt Eden uses, example from beautiful lies