Howto: Funky bass?

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You can get very "bass guitar" sounding basslines via a rich wave (sawtooth) in a low range going through an envelope-controlled low-pass filter of 8 or 12db with a middle-lowish sustain, a fast attack (like say 4 ms or under) and a fast decay (like say under 100 ms) and just a touch of resonance at the cutoff. If you want something just a bit warmer, add some overdrive before the filter. This is essentially what a tube based bass-amp is doing for you.

In that song, it sounds like there are two "bass" noises. The trick is making the sounds fit together. In the San Francisco "glitch-hop" or "lazer-bass" scene (think dabrye or danny breaks) most artists take a really thick bass noise with a good envelope and throw a mid-high noise with a similar envelope and maybe a vocal-filter over it. Absolutely destroys the spectrum on pretty much any system. The raspy high-end makes you think the bass is MUCH louder than it actually is. That's for example why audion or par grindvik's stuff sounds so freaking loud.

Of course, that much beat you over the head bass doesn't do so well for minimal techno

I find that a pitched 808 or a properly offset, amplitude-enveloped sine wave actually sounds really good with the crazy mid-laden crisp minimal sound.