![]() ![]() ![]() So the final result was that bass….it went from nasty to nice and then somewhere inbetween for the end result. Then when I had the fat simple bass sound with a cool part I then added an ENV to the cut off of the bass sound but instead of making the filter cutoff go all the way up to the top I just let it go up to the 3rd harmonic like around 400-600 hz…so it just adding a pretty non aggressive shape that just gives some rhythm but not growling at all….kind of warm and soft again at that point but with that wiggle you hear in the final bassline.įrom there I took the still dub reggae sounding bass sound out of the sampler into the focusrite green eq which had an Input and Output gain plus 4 band EQ….all sections could be overdriven to get all kinds of distortion and saturation with the ability to tune it all with the eq bands so to me it was the ultimate saturation and distortion unit…it broke up in a really nice way and always kept the bass end very fat. I took a distorted fat sound and filtered it way down to just a sub type bass sound and made the bass melody as a kind of dub reggae bass sound. Watermelon bass was a technique I learned through a lot of experimentation over the years. Once in the EMU we then added another layer of filtering driven by ENV’s LFO’s and the Modwheel and tried to accentuate the characteristics of the initial sample from the Pro-One.īasically the simple principles are that heavy distortion adds lots of upper harmonics to any simple bass sounds (like the way the old reece house bass turned into a hugely gnarly dnb bass through years of distorting and sampling and filtering by many different artists) We would then sample into the EMU the best snips from the DAT…sometimes we just used one from the whole DAT recording, sometimes we used a 3 or 4 to piece a riff together. We used to set a DAT tape on record and then play simple notes from the Pro-One live whilst hand modulating the filter cutoff at the same time so we would end up with all kinds of filter and pitch moves on the tape….mostly too crazy to use but some small snips would be really cool or with great movement and shape and timing and pitch bending etc. It started as a pretty obvious distorted full frequency synth sound from the Pro-One with lots of harmonics and sounding like a fairly standard distorted bass sound.
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