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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 :6:
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
jonahmann wrote:Dimension Expander.
Awww hell yeah! I was just wishing earlier today that I could use Massive's Dimension Expander on other synths. :h:

Re: How can I fatten my bass sounds for free?

Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 11:02 am
by sunny_b_uk
wub wrote:
:z:
i slept on this plugin for years! started using it again and man its awesome, im prefering it over camel crusher :D
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. :corntard:

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