The Reese Bass Thread

[dotcurrency]

Ah shit sorry I forgot about this...
Which track I posted did you want info on?

Haha no problem happens to the best of us.
Both the untitled-drop-wip and trouble-downtown-2 have amazing reese/growlyness to them.

How'd you go about the untitled one? I feel like the reeses/growls in that one is closer to the sound I want

[mthrfnk]

Ah shit sorry I forgot about this...
Which track I posted did you want info on?

Haha no problem happens to the best of us.
Both the untitled-drop-wip and trouble-downtown-2 have amazing reese/growlyness to them.

How'd you go about the untitled one? I feel like the reeses/growls in that one is closer to the sound I want

Not at my production PC atm, so this is from memory (will post specifics/screenshots if you want).

Main growls are a couple of Massive patches based around bend +/- WT's with a Saw/Square for sub, with an FX chain consisting of (at a guess) Flangus (FL's flanger), WOW filter, stacked distortion (x2) and maybe some stereo imaging. Most of the movement happens from modulation in Massive filters, stereo slider in the voicing tab, and WOW filter automation.

Thats pretty much how I go about all my growly stuff, but like I said I'll post some screenshots or whatever tomorrow.

The Trouble Dowtown stuff is slightly different, I posted a little tut about them in this/the growl thread. They're done from reeses sampled into Kontakt with Kontakts phaser adding the vocalness then layered with a standard fat saw and sub.

[dotcurrency]

Main growls are a couple of Massive patches based around bend +/- WT's with a Saw/Square for sub, with an FX chain consisting of (at a guess) Flangus (FL's flanger), WOW filter, stacked distortion (x2) and maybe some stereo imaging. Most of the movement happens from modulation in Massive filters, stereo slider in the voicing tab, and WOW filter automation.
Thats pretty much how I go about all my growly stuff, but like I said I'll post some screenshots or whatever tomorrow.

Is there anything being automated? And when you get a chance can I see what WTs and envelopes. you're using specifically.

[smogglymoff95]

Spent a while on this one - tried to make something in the style of Noisia, still looking for more ways to make this sound "move". Any suggestions would be appreciated. Soundcloud

[Fowles]

Spent a while on this one - tried to make something in the style of Noisia, still looking for more ways to make this sound "move". Any suggestions would be appreciated. Soundcloud

sounds great dude. all i would do is maybe resample and add more distortion/ sublte phasers. what did u do?

[smogglymoff95]

Cheers! I use Reason 5 on its own at the moment, and I haven't quite got the hang of re-sampling with it yet - but I'll probably watch a few youtube videos on it

[mthrfnk]

Main growls are a couple of Massive patches based around bend +/- WT's with a Saw/Square for sub, with an FX chain consisting of (at a guess) Flangus (FL's flanger), WOW filter, stacked distortion (x2) and maybe some stereo imaging. Most of the movement happens from modulation in Massive filters, stereo slider in the voicing tab, and WOW filter automation.
Thats pretty much how I go about all my growly stuff, but like I said I'll post some screenshots or whatever tomorrow.

Is there anything being automated? And when you get a chance can I see what WTs and envelopes. you're using specifically.

Things automated in FL (outside Massive):
-The stereo seperation in Massive
-Wow filter vowel->2nd vowel knob
-BiFilter Band reject doing sweeps similar to Wow filter

Things automated in Massive:
-LFO's on the filters (band reject and band pass)

I will get round to upping some screenshots when I have some time to collate a big image together for you (got 4 days off work atm so I'll get started ).

[dotcurrency]

Things automated in FL (outside Massive):
-The stereo seperation in Massive
-Wow filter vowel->2nd vowel knob
-BiFilter Band reject doing sweeps similar to Wow filter

Things automated in Massive:
-LFO's on the filters (band reject and band pass)

I will get round to upping some screenshots when I have some time to collate a big image together for you (got 4 days off work atm so I'll get started ).

Haha alright I'll be checking up on this thread for the screens haha. Haven't been on DSF all break.

Also what I dont understand often is do you guys automate band reject kind of randomly because I can never figure good sounding controlled automation, so I often just fuck about with it. Especially when using 2 band reject filters. (example being, you automating BR and BP in massive, and having another BR outside of massive, how do you get it to sound well instead of all over the place?)

[LogiSpark]

I use hamor re-sampling to make reese basses, it's very effective and I made some pretty good sounds with it, basic patch is just have unison up to two and decrease the first bar and equalize the other two bars and use the lowest keys. SeamlessR on Youtube, usually helps with this stuff, his talking bass and reese basses are crazy http://www.youtube.com/user/SeamlessR

[dotcurrency]

I was listening to eastern thug by KOAN Sound on the bus ride home and realized how dynamic the Growl/Reese is. So I tried to remake it. I think the only thing its really missing is some loudness/mastering sound to make it more upfront.
I wanna get your guys's thoughts on this. I didn't really know the correct notes for any of this and kind of guessed from memory, didn't listen to the song at all during making this.
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[Deathadder99]

I was listening to eastern thug by KOAN Sound on the bus ride home and realized how dynamic the Growl/Reese is. So I tried to remake it. I think the only thing its really missing is some loudness/mastering sound to make it more upfront.
I wanna get your guys's thoughts on this. I didn't really know the correct notes for any of this and kind of guessed from memory, didn't listen to the song at all during making this.
Soundcloud

Damn, you really nailed the vibe of the song! I think it's missing a bit on the high end and could maybe do with a tiny cut around 300 hz/400hz. Otherwise it's great. I especially love the movement, how did you get it to growl like that? Pitch shift? Filters? I'd love to know:3.

Edit: also that snare is sick, where did you get it?

[dotcurrency]

Damn, you really nailed the vibe of the song! I think it's missing a bit on the high end and could maybe do with a tiny cut around 300 hz/400hz. Otherwise it's great. I especially love the movement, how did you get it to growl like that? Pitch shift? Filters? I'd love to know:3.

Edit: also that snare is sick, where did you get it?

Thanks! I dont remember where I got the snare from, but its my most used one hahha. Anything at a slower BPM I use that snare because of its short tail, its great for glitching drums with

The movement is entirely from a notch filter. But when I was making this reese, I was very, very, very specific about the automation of the notch filter. I spent most of my time moving around the single notch filter I had trying to get it right.
I also automated an EQ to have a huge boost at around 600hz, and on each note, the boost would move from 600hz to about 950hz-1khz. This also helped the vowely/growley sound more fluid. And I think some slight phase that I put on it might have helped with the dynamics a bit too. Vocoder helped make the sound more fat and wet like how it is in the song.

Heres my filters

Heres my automation

I also used a lowpass automation to help the beginning and end of each note sound more sharp and sudden

[Deathadder99]

Thanks! I dont remember where I got the snare from, but its my most used one hahha. Anything at a slower BPM I use that snare because of its short tail, its great for glitching drums with

The movement is entirely from a notch filter. But when I was making this reese, I was very, very, very specific about the automation of the notch filter. I spent most of my time moving around the single notch filter I had trying to get it right.
I also automated an EQ to have a huge boost at around 600hz, and on each note, the boost would move from 600hz to about 950hz-1khz. This also helped the vowely/growley sound more fluid. And I think some slight phase that I put on it might have helped with the dynamics a bit too. Vocoder helped make the sound more fat and wet like how it is in the song.
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I also used a lowpass automation to help the beginning and end of each note sound more sharp and sudden

Ah. I thought you had a very quick portamento at the start of the note but it was the low pass. I might try that. I'm astonishingly lazy when It comes to automation, really should spend longer with filters. I tend to spend longer getting the plugin to do cool stuff by itself when it would be easier to simply draw a couple shapes in .:p

[mthrfnk]

Damn, you really nailed the vibe of the song! I think it's missing a bit on the high end and could maybe do with a tiny cut around 300 hz/400hz. Otherwise it's great. I especially love the movement, how did you get it to growl like that? Pitch shift? Filters? I'd love to know:3.

Edit: also that snare is sick, where did you get it?

Thanks! I dont remember where I got the snare from, but its my most used one hahha. Anything at a slower BPM I use that snare because of its short tail, its great for glitching drums with

The movement is entirely from a notch filter. But when I was making this reese, I was very, very, very specific about the automation of the notch filter. I spent most of my time moving around the single notch filter I had trying to get it right.
I also automated an EQ to have a huge boost at around 600hz, and on each note, the boost would move from 600hz to about 950hz-1khz. This also helped the vowely/growley sound more fluid. And I think some slight phase that I put on it might have helped with the dynamics a bit too. Vocoder helped make the sound more fat and wet like how it is in the song.

Heres my filters

Heres my automation

I also used a lowpass automation to help the beginning and end of each note sound more sharp and sudden

What are you running in Ozone? Just wondered why it's at the beginning of the FX chain.

[dotcurrency]

Damn, you really nailed the vibe of the song! I think it's missing a bit on the high end and could maybe do with a tiny cut around 300 hz/400hz. Otherwise it's great. I especially love the movement, how did you get it to growl like that? Pitch shift? Filters? I'd love to know:3.

Edit: also that snare is sick, where did you get it?

Thanks! I dont remember where I got the snare from, but its my most used one hahha. Anything at a slower BPM I use that snare because of its short tail, its great for glitching drums with

The movement is entirely from a notch filter. But when I was making this reese, I was very, very, very specific about the automation of the notch filter. I spent most of my time moving around the single notch filter I had trying to get it right.
I also automated an EQ to have a huge boost at around 600hz, and on each note, the boost would move from 600hz to about 950hz-1khz. This also helped the vowely/growley sound more fluid. And I think some slight phase that I put on it might have helped with the dynamics a bit too. Vocoder helped make the sound more fat and wet like how it is in the song.

Heres my filters

Heres my automation

I also used a lowpass automation to help the beginning and end of each note sound more sharp and sudden

What are you running in Ozone? Just wondered why it's at the beginning of the FX chain.

If i remember correctly, I used it as part of the base sound. Meaning my massive patch ran through it before I recorded it with edison. It's doing nothing now.

[lloydy]

Remix of mishva's civilisation with probably the heaviest reece i have made so far.

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[ephyks]

Hey guys, I've got a question. I'm sure somewhere in this thread it has been brought up, but lately I've been overly attached to FM synthesis. It fascinates the fuck out of me. I was wondering if the same concepts of making a reese could be applied to FM synthesis? I've been having a go at it for a week and I can get some gritty reese-like textures, but nothing that comes close to an authentic reese. I ask this specifically about FM8, since it's incredibly easy to manipulate and morph sound.

[Augment]

Remix of mishva's civilisation with probably the heaviest reece i have made so far.

Soundcloud

nice one

[dotcurrency]

edit. didnt not mean to post... was trying to edit an earlier post

[Deathadder99]

Hey guys, I've got a question. I'm sure somewhere in this thread it has been brought up, but lately I've been overly attached to FM synthesis. It fascinates the fuck out of me. I was wondering if the same concepts of making a reese could be applied to FM synthesis? I've been having a go at it for a week and I can get some gritty reese-like textures, but nothing that comes close to an authentic reese. I ask this specifically about FM8, since it's incredibly easy to manipulate and morph sound.

You can obviously do the two detuned saws in FM8, but that really ruins the point of FM synthesis anyway. I have made some sick FM reeses, but I wouldn't say that they are traditional reese sounds. However if you screw with envelopes/filters/automation, you can get some good movement, which is the key to a good reese sound. You will not really get an authentic reese sound though unless you do the detuned saw waves I'd say. I suppose you could try that and just subtly FMing them to get an interesting timbre. But I'm sure that some modern "reeses" are simply filtered gritty sounds (e.g culprate and KOAN sound and KTN)