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Making tinny, metallic bass

Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 7:37 pm
by shahbazi
I need help producing this sound in albino 3. Tried posting in "help me make this sound" but got no help. Im wanting to make the tinny, metallic bass i keep hearing everywhere. Sort of like that in sukh knight- ganja dub, and stenchmans - spell on you. Any help?

Re: Making tinny, metallic bass

Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 7:40 pm
by lowpass
I would also like to know this,

for some reason I think fm synthesis is the answer but I'm not sure why, and I don't know specifics

I'm interested in the sound from in the death car by 16bit, I think that can be described as the same sort of metallic sound

Re: Making tinny, metallic bass

Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 7:51 pm
by shahbazi
Yeah exactly what im after, hard to explain but im sure somebody understands. Any help guys?

Re: Making tinny, metallic bass

Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 7:53 pm
by hurlingdervish
short reverbs wet @ 100 percent

Re: Making tinny, metallic bass

Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 7:55 pm
by shahbazi
What do you mean by "short" reverbs?

Re: Making tinny, metallic bass

Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 8:05 pm
by compact71
he means short reverb..very short!

Re: Making tinny, metallic bass

Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 8:31 pm
by 86.
shahbazi wrote:What do you mean by "short" reverbs?
the decay time, he means

Re: Making tinny, metallic bass

Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 8:44 pm
by dav.id
using an erosion effect on a bassline can also create a metallic sound to the bassline....it is a standard effect in ableton

Re: Making tinny, metallic bass

Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 9:11 pm
by shahbazi
Iv got erosion open doesnt seem to be making a difference? need to tweak anything? im a bit of a noob

Re: Making tinny, metallic bass

Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 9:38 pm
by shahbazi
Still cant make the sound. i want something like this bassline http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aW3Ko4u8ts
How would i make it in albino im lost, reverb isnt doing it all for me :S

Re: Making tinny, metallic bass

Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 9:47 pm
by willm
try filtering out the low freqencies and bouncing a copy of that then import the smaple with the high freqs and apply some distortion playing the original on another channel. how this makes sense, I'm not so great at explaining these things!

Re: Making tinny, metallic bass

Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 9:49 pm
by hurlingdervish
86. wrote:
shahbazi wrote:What do you mean by "short" reverbs?
the decay time, he means
and small room size

Re: Making tinny, metallic bass

Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 3:51 pm
by fiziks
Use an FM synth. ESFM1 is standard for this.

Re: Making tinny, metallic bass

Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 3:52 pm
by shahbazi
Sorry im a bit of a noob, any way of making this sound in albino 3? bit unsure on the fm synth :S im using ableton live if that helps

Re: Making tinny, metallic bass

Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 4:03 pm
by serox
That sounds like that preset in Massive, Brutal Electro

If I wanted to make a sound like that I would start with some square waves and some filters. Maybe comb or vowel (?) filter types.

There are a million presets out there that have this sound already. All you need to do then is setup ur movement.

Re: Making tinny, metallic bass

Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 4:07 pm
by shahbazi
thanks for the help but im suing albino 3, got any guidance within albino. Im a noob so can u explain things?

Re: Making tinny, metallic bass

Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 4:10 pm
by serox
shahbazi wrote:thanks for the help but im suing albino 3, got any guidance within albino. Im a noob so can u explain things?
Play with it for a few months and you will understand how to do it and many other sounds on ur journey.

There is no quick way to make the sound using just Albino alone.

Re: Making tinny, metallic bass

Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 4:17 pm
by hurlingdervish
shahbazi wrote:thanks for the help but im suing albino 3, got any guidance within albino. Im a noob so can u explain things?
we might be explaining all day in that case...

people here can help a LOT, but you gotta have some basic understanding of how the synth works for a lot of the advice to sink in, so get back to fuggin around for fun first!

Re: Making tinny, metallic bass

Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 4:24 pm
by shahbazi
Ahh no i didnt mean explain the whole of albino to me. Im alrite at using it, know some basics. i just want to make this particular sound, the tinny metallic bass. The guy earlier mentiioned fm but i need guidance o ndoing this. any help please?

Re: Making tinny, metallic bass

Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 5:05 pm
by hurlingdervish
shahbazi wrote:Ahh no i didnt mean explain the whole of albino to me. Im alrite at using it, know some basics. i just want to make this particular sound, the tinny metallic bass. The guy earlier mentiioned fm but i need guidance o ndoing this. any help please?
there's enough in this thread to get you the sound, you just need to know how to relay it onto albino, watch the tutorials, read the manual and the production bible sticky up top...
youtube albino tutorials...etc

i know its not what you want to hear, but its what you have to hear :D