Technical Itch Bass Sounds Instruments?

Hey everyone!

This is my first post on SC, I've been DJing on Jungletrain for over a year and am trying to get into the production end of things.

Does anyone know how to get the rough edge bass sounds that are in tune like The Rukus?

I'm just now learning the basics in Ableton Live (2+ weeks experience, very new and learning.) Is there a vst I could get that would produce this sound? or a built in synthesizer?

Any help is greatly appreciated =)

[Statto]

hello there

yo zell!

i think tech itch uses a lot of distorted reese basslines?

not sure if thats what you mean from this tune, or the lower sub frequencies.

probably best getting yourself some decent reese samples and throwing them through some distortion though and experimenting

Googled Reese Basslines, bit confusing. but thx fada! I was talking about the basslines that act as the melody for the song.

hey.. take any softwaresynth (massive or whatever) choose an empty sound.. choose sawtooth waveform in the oscillator, same in the 2nd, same in the 3rd (as many as you have).. detune the oscillators slightly against each other... use a 24db lowpassfilter and play around with the cutoff frequency to see how much of the higher frequ range you want to let through... that is the basic for a reese sound.. and then there are a million possibilties to go further..

if you don't mean the big distorted basslines and rather the beeps, he might be using an arpeggiator type synth?

[denaris]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo5G8af3meM
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_qu...=reese+bas

Absolutely loads of tutorials. Watch a few, start applying it to your synth (isn't it called Analogue in Live?). Sub also gives you the bare bones of how to make one.

http://www.dubstepforum.com/the-reese-ba...08-40.html < seems to have a lot of discussion on the reese.

[denaris]

Oh yes, read about resampling / bouncing audio.

Reese bass has notoriously been created, distorted, filtered, whatever then bounced down as audio, loaded back into a sampler and then processed further. Try shoving all sorts of distortion, compressors, flange, chorus, saturations etc over your sound. Mess and mess more. You might end up with something unlistenable but you're learning in the process.

You guys have been an awesome help so far- i've been checking out the tutorials, using native instruments massive to make many of the sounds and they are sounding so cool.

Cheers guys for helping me out so quickly even though i'm a newcomer. =) will start posting samples as i create something ear-worthy haha

I'd second what Wilsh said and go for the audio approach (ie, fuck about with your soft synth until you like what you hear, then try bouncing to audio and importing into a sampler to play across the keys) for a more static/sample kind of sound, typical of that kind of bass.... you'll notice a lot of Reese type basses get their character and movement from very noticable (ok, ok, bad) looping - slowing down with lower pitches, speeding up at higher ranges etc. Good luck with it and also as Sub said, just stack up 2 or more sawtooth waves and detune them against each other (eg, one sawtooth at -50 cents, the other at +50 cents etc) as desired, pretty much halfway there already then. Then it's just a matter of distorting/adding fx/tweaking etc, then capturing it audio to replay over the keys, as a single, much more controllable sampled sound. and err, hello by the way!

Very informative thread, thanks.

But what does detune mean? How do I do it?

hey all forgot to say hi to everyone!

[denaris]

Very informative thread, thanks.

But what does detune mean? How do I do it?

Take any synth, pop a waveform into more than one oscillator then on one of the oscillators move the detune knob very slightly in one or the other direction. If you've got 2 sawtooths you will notice that moving the detune with instantly make the sound move and become thicker in sound. This is through increasing the harmonics between the 2 waveforms.

Incredibly simple and essential to a reese sound. Absolutely every normal subtractive synthesis based synth will have a detune knob. Google subtractive synthesis tutorial and read read read. There is so much free information out there, there is not a single person who owns a synth / soft synth who can't have a damn good stuff at a basic bass, lead or pad.

It may also be labelled as "Fine" which means fine tune. Does the same thing, changes the pitch of the waveform very slightly.

Thanks Wilsh