How to make a Kahn new grime sounding 808 style bass?
How to make a Kahn new grime sounding 808 style bass?
I've been trying loads of different techniques, adding different stuff to an 808 bass, but it never feels as heavy and raw, but still futuristic and new as the Kahn and Wen kinda basses
Anyone got any idea on how to make these kinda basses and what to add to them?
I use ableton
examples:
Kahn & Neek - Percy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bpg-NqSttA
Kahn - Fierce
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Caz9qK9K_Qg
Wen - Nightcrawler
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPSKcosUc9A
there's a million examples of it
Anyone got any idea on how to make these kinda basses and what to add to them?
I use ableton
examples:
Kahn & Neek - Percy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bpg-NqSttA
Kahn - Fierce
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Caz9qK9K_Qg
Wen - Nightcrawler
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPSKcosUc9A
there's a million examples of it
Re: How to make a Kahn new grime sounding 808 style bass?
Take an 808 kick drum. Clip it wayyyyyy over 0 db. Resample. Depending on your DAW, you might have to tweak a few things in order to maintain the distortion from the clipping while bringing the volume back down below 0 db.
You can take the resampled kick and jack the volume up again and do another resample, adding another level of distortion. You can do this as many times as you need.
Or you could try and sample from one of kahn's songs....
You can take the resampled kick and jack the volume up again and do another resample, adding another level of distortion. You can do this as many times as you need.
Or you could try and sample from one of kahn's songs....
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Re: How to make a Kahn new grime sounding 808 style bass?
compress the shit out of it and distort + resample
ez
try different distortion plugins for different sounds n shit (-:
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try different distortion plugins for different sounds n shit (-:

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Re: How to make a Kahn new grime sounding 808 style bass?
well theres probably some other fancy stuff going on too maybe some layering of diffrent distorted kicks n stuff

TopManLurka wrote:FTR, requirements for being a 'head':
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-you must have been in that infamous room of ten people.
-a DMZ release is preferable but not necessary.
-please note that being youngsta is mandatory.
Re: How to make a Kahn new grime sounding 808 style bass?
Also try making an 808 in massive (billions of tutorials for this exist) then use the hardclipper effect. This gives you more control over thing like the envelope
Re: How to make a Kahn new grime sounding 808 style bass?
Basically what these guys said.
In ableton use the saturator, stick it on waveshapper and go nuts. Resample and bingo.
In ableton use the saturator, stick it on waveshapper and go nuts. Resample and bingo.
Re: How to make a Kahn new grime sounding 808 style bass?
Resample Youngstar - Pulse X
They're all doing it..
They're all doing it..
Re: How to make a Kahn new grime sounding 808 style bass?
hmmm that sounds like I good idea. I'm gonna do dis l8r.Ama wrote:Resample Youngstar - Pulse X
They're all doing it..
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