Umek 'Slap' Bass - how to?

loopdon · Post by **loopdon** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 11:51 am

I would love top get some pointers on how this bass is made?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8hIWihMZ2c

I have looked at in a spectrogramm (made with audacity),
it looks like chords (?) immediately bending upwards. Or rather some kind of arpeggio?

This is the spectrogram picture taken from audacity:

Any additional pointers on the production are very welcome as well.

Thanks!

Ingemar · Post by **Ingemar** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 12:51 pm

id probably go about it with a two-note pattern for the bass and gently tweaking the portamento on the synth, and sidechaining all of this to the kick

loopdon · Post by **loopdon** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 1:08 pm

That sounds good.

nakoradiomies · Post by **nakoradiomies** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 1:32 pm

well this goes little offtopic but omg how shite is umek nowdays..

comparing these for example

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lbEN7mBdwA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXuOOh09Fp4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A689btel3VA

loopdon · Post by **loopdon** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 2:15 pm

That's of course open to discussion. Been following him for a long time.
Tbh, there's lots of tracks on his label 1605 that i prefer to lots of his tracks. But i have also always rated his production from a purely technical standpoint.

zxcv · Post by **zxcv** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 2:47 pm

ooo back in the days
his mixalbum timewarp 004 was really good

tone-def · Post by **tone-def** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 3:30 pm

nakoradiomies wrote:well this goes little offtopic but omg how shite is umek nowdays..

when he jumped on the minimal bandwagon it all went wrong. Beyer and Carola have done alright for them selfs. ok non of them are as big as they were but Umek has had the biggest fall from the top to where he is now.

patrick bateman · Post by **patrick bateman** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 3:32 pm

tone-def wrote:
nakoradiomies wrote:well this goes little offtopic but omg how shite is umek nowdays..
when he jumped on the minimal bandwagon it all went wrong. Beyer and Carola have done alright for them selfs. ok non of them are as big as they were but Umek has had the biggest fall from the top to where he is now.

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