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1st off just wanted to give maximum respect to whoever's responsible for this forum. Been waiting for a dedicated site like this to come along for sometime. Been reading it quite a bit & picked up some very usefull info

Onwards..

Anyone have any tips for creating basslines like the Twisted do? For instance "Bandwagon Blues" (sort of an updated version of older jump up basslines with a more modular twist).

I've been playing around with 2 detuned voices, similar to the suggested settings in the C4C basslines topic. I'm coming close but not achieving the effect I'm going after. If anyone has any thoughts it would be appreciated.


Damn I'm sick of making distorted Reese basslines, gotta try something new

I guess it's a sample of a synth with 2 oscillator sync, and a filter envelope - creating the initial wah effect, the others through LFO's on filter. Then bunged through distortion maybe. But you can sample the 1 synth stab as described above, put this into your emu and control the filters with the EMU - could potentially sound better than a synth.
But then again, I'm not entirely sober and could be completely wrong

EZman is right. It's an envelope controlling the filter frequency on a steep low-pass filter which then gives way to an LFO controling the FF (the LFO doesn't start until after a delay).

As for the sound itself ... it sounds like a ring modulation type bassline. Try taking a square and triangle wave form and having the triangle one octave higher than the square (you might want to play around with this as well) and multiplying instead of adding them. Lay the filter modulation, a slight bit of overdrive, and bob's your auntie's lover.

Then again, it could be square waves and not ring mod cos I only have a shitty quality MP3 to get a taste of the bassline.

Anyweah rezone, remember, just cos you start with a reece doesn't mean that you have to end up with one. Last night I made a really dope bass stab sound using a reece bass sound as the oscillator and the Peak/ Shelving filter as the main modulating force (actually I made about 4 completely different sounding tones - that filter is well powerful - before picking this one as the one I liked). It doesn't sound like a reece but it has extremely complex undertones (unlike the twisty bassline). I'll try to post all the settings and whatnot if I can remember to write them down this weekend.

Good luck!

Thanks for the tips!

Madmax I'm going to give that a go.

My reece basslines is just a sarcastic comment. I try to squeeze as much as I can out of a sound, trying different settings. Also I don't like to replicate & copy sounds for my own tracks. Just working with new formulas is a good basis to expiriment & create new original sounds. But I'm sure you know this already.

madmax wrote:EZman is right. It's an envelope controlling the filter frequency on a steep low-pass filter which then gives way to an LFO controling the FF (the LFO doesn't start until after a delay).

As for the sound itself ... it sounds like a ring modulation type bassline. Try taking a square and triangle wave form and having the triangle one octave higher than the square (you might want to play around with this as well) and multiplying instead of adding them. Lay the filter modulation, a slight bit of overdrive, and bob's your auntie's lover.

Then again, it could be square waves and not ring mod cos I only have a shitty quality MP3 to get a taste of the bassline.

Anyweah rezone, remember, just cos you start with a reece doesn't mean that you have to end up with one. Last night I made a really dope bass stab sound using a reece bass sound as the oscillator and the Peak/ Shelving filter as the main modulating force (actually I made about 4 completely different sounding tones - that filter is well powerful - before picking this one as the one I liked). It doesn't sound like a reece but it has extremely complex undertones (unlike the twisty bassline). I'll try to post all the settings and whatnot if I can remember to write them down this weekend.

Good luck!

did u write em down...them settings? u gonna post em

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