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How can I fatten my bass sounds for free?
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 1:23 am
by SonnyFnD
What vsts out there can help me fatten my bass sounds and make them bigger. I have a budget of zero. :/
Re: How can I fatten my bass sounds for free?
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 1:30 am
by 3za
Re: How can I fatten my bass sounds for free?
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 1:40 am
by SonnyFnD
Thank you! Exactly what I needed!

Re: How can I fatten my bass sounds for free?
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 2:13 am
by twilitez
Sausage Fattener.
Re: How can I fatten my bass sounds for free?
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 3:08 am
by Hircine
camelcrusher is a great free distortion plugin. instead of just going ape shit on the saturation or distortion knob, do it gently once, bounce down the sound, rinse and repeat until you get a nice distorted sound. that's resampling. you can try just applying distortion to the mid and highs, leaving the low band untouched so you get a huge mid range with a nice and clean low end.
Re: How can I fatten my bass sounds for free?
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 3:39 am
by neonmansion
separate frequencies, simple delay, delay right channel by 15-25 ms on mid's and highs. M/s Eqing on highs. Apply mild distortion with high drive. Center and compress your subs.
Re: How can I fatten my bass sounds for free?
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 7:03 am
by wub
Re: How can I fatten my bass sounds for free?
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 8:38 am
by NinjaEdit
Re: How can I fatten my bass sounds for free?
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 2:22 pm
by sunny_b_uk
Hircine wrote:camelcrusher is a great free distortion plugin. instead of just going ape shit on the saturation or distortion knob, do it gently once, bounce down the sound, rinse and repeat until you get a nice distorted sound. that's resampling. you can try just applying distortion to the mid and highs, leaving the low band untouched so you get a huge mid range with a nice and clean low end.
interesting tip, i always go apeshit on any effect i use but i tweak carefully

i tend to reach the results i desire with just a few plugins since im so used to my own methods but im gona try what you've said here just to see how it sounds.
also @ OP, try getting hold of CM fruity waveshaper its amazing!
Re: How can I fatten my bass sounds for free?
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 12:34 am
by Laika
Awww hell yeah! I was just wishing earlier today that I could use Massive's Dimension Expander on other synths.

Re: How can I fatten my bass sounds for free?
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 11:02 am
by sunny_b_uk
wub wrote:

i slept on this plugin for years! started using it again and man its awesome, im prefering it over camel crusher

also tesslapro if its not been mentioned, push it hard and it sounds great for phattening!
Re: How can I fatten my bass sounds for free?
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 2:29 pm
by Augment
Just posting here so I will remember to dl Sumo to my production laptop

Re: How can I fatten my bass sounds for free?
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 5:06 pm
by Eat Bass
too bad its windows/vst only.
Re: How can I fatten my bass sounds for free?
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 8:59 pm
by VirtualMark
I play my bass really loud, put a mic in a deep fat fryer and record it back into my daw. Fattens it up nicely.
Re: How can I fatten my bass sounds for free?
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 11:41 pm
by elyhess
twilitez wrote:Sausage Fattener.
<3 sausage fattener. But sometimes i feel like other methods of distortion are better and cleaner sounding, i feel like they fatten it, but dont over-fatten it. if ya get what i mean.
i say fatten that bass w/ sausage fattener unless you find that multiband distortion + compression + layering sounds better. but if your looking for a one knob dealy, then sausage fattener gon fatten det sheet.

Re: How can I fatten my bass sounds for free?
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 11:42 pm
by elyhess
VirtualMark wrote:I play my bass really loud, put a mic in a deep fat fryer and record it back into my daw. Fattens it up nicely.
this actually works much better