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That warm, droning hip hop bass
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2014 3:32 am
by Maccaveli
This probably has a really simple answer but for some reason it's been stumping me. The warm harmonics on deep 808 bass that you hear in beats by Mike Will Made It, DJ Mustard, Boi-1da, etc. What I can do so far sounds extremely close, but it's just missing something I can't even explain.
Example at 0:44 in this track:
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Re: That warm, droning hip hop bass
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2014 5:38 pm
by Augment
Tried saturating an 808?
Re: That warm, droning hip hop bass
Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2014 9:57 am
by Messiah Dubz
Basically, some light distortion and a frequency peak around 150 on an 808, see where it peaks and try it, it will sound exactly like it.
Re: That warm, droning hip hop bass
Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2014 5:06 pm
by cmgoodman1226
Yeah to me it sounds like he's saturated it because the low notes are so low that you really only feel them; so in order to really hear them you have to add some harmonics. Also it kind of sounds like he's playing two octaves on those low notes, because it sounds like there's not just harmonics but a sine wave above it.