coldfuture wrote:Hey wow, this is a great thread.
I love all that industrial techno and this is one area I only recently discovered myself: the lack of a bassline in a lot of techno.
Yeah, also took me a long time to figure out that lots of basslines are really heavily processed reverb tails. But i still kind of fail in recreating it as i hear it on lots of records. If you turn up the volume really loud you here lots of movement in the bass region, and i dont seem to get it right yet...
Dusk wrote:
I like to apply heavy compression to the reverb send (or return it to your overall bass buss, if you use one) followed by another compressor sidechained to the kick itself, to ensure the kick always cuts through this cavernous low end "soup".
If it doesn't sound right yet, don't worry. I find the real key is to get that all set up, then spend time playing with the reverb size, density and pre-delay parameters to get it locked in a pleasing, energetic way with the kick drum.
With these settings, combined with the ducking from the kick triggering the sidechained compressor, you can achieve various kinds of sucking/pulling effect, as if a cleverly-programmed sub-bassline is at work, when really it isn't.
Oh, and I'd try this with a nice, rounded 909 kick drum first. You can't beat it!
But this sounds really good, gonna try it out - Thanks for that!
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