Looking for some help on the bass/midrange on the drop of this:
The kick seems to make up a lot of the "beef" of the sound but I'm struggling to get that hardstyle over-distorted, almost crushed sound on the main midrange. Any tips?
Re: Hardstyle Type Bass
Posted: Fri May 31, 2013 8:44 pm
by Coolschmid
Is something like this what you are looking for? I had some fun messing around with a kind of crunchy bass/kick patch I made a long time ago, got a little carried away.If it is I''ll explain or give you the patch/project.
There's a kind of metallic artifact that lingers after the hits that I don't like. It is probably possible to remove it but I am too lazy/I don't care enough
Re: Hardstyle Type Bass
Posted: Fri May 31, 2013 8:46 pm
by mthrfnk
Coolschmid wrote:Is something like this what you are looking for? I had some fun messing around with a kind of crunchy bass/kick patch I made a long time ago, got a little carried away.If it is I''ll explain or give you the patch/project.
The main part of the patch is a thick oscillator combination made into a pluck and then distorted, followed by a comb filter and then distorted more. Short reverb makes it thicker and more metally, (especially since its distorted more afterwards), then I just did two of the same distortion patches after it. It sounds pretty much the same before the two saturns, they just give it a little more heaviness to cut through when the other elements come in. You lose the sound if you change the first oscillator to something that isn't 5ths or 7ths and/or remove the comb filter, so those are pretty much what give it the crunch.
If you have multiband distortion, instead of cranking it up on the entire sound, split the frequencies into as many bands as you can and crank it up on all of them individually, sounds more gritty and less like an electric guitar.
If you have massive I'll put up the patch somehow. If you have ableton/saturn ill just put up the whole project.
The main part of the patch is a thick oscillator combination made into a pluck and then distorted, followed by a comb filter and then distorted more. Short reverb makes it thicker and more metally, (especially since its distorted more afterwards), then I just did two of the same distortion patches after it. It sounds pretty much the same before the two saturns, they just give it a little more heaviness to cut through when the other elements come in. You lose the sound if you change the first oscillator to something that isn't 5ths or 7ths and/or remove the comb filter, so those are pretty much what give it the crunch.
If you have multiband distortion, instead of cranking it up on the entire sound, split the frequencies into as many bands as you can and crank it up on all of them individually, sounds more gritty and less like an electric guitar.
If you have massive I'll put up the patch somehow. If you have ableton/saturn ill just put up the whole project.
Thanks man, I use Massive and Saturn, I'll try following our pics first
