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fiki · Post by **fiki** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 1:14 pm

Hello,

I allways have problems with BASS lines.
I cant get a good bottom bass line anywhere. I tried with Trilogy and there are just few of the bass lines that are good and full...
Do you have any coments that could help me... where to find good bass lines or how to effect or make a bad bassline good..

cptgone · Post by **cptgone** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 1:26 pm

Strange, Trilogy has quite the reputation... I don't often use FX for bass myself, I don't think many people do.

stefancrs · Post by **stefancrs** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 1:28 pm

All I ever use on bass is distortion, compression and equalising. Sometimes a chorus as well, but that just makes the bottom of the spectrum worse.

snooky · Post by **snooky** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 1:37 pm

making a bad bassline good? re-record it...properly... and maybe a better riff? or try a better sound or program one yourself?

dx-9 · Post by **dx-9** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 1:44 pm

try with doubled basslines. take a sine bass (subbass) and copy the midi notes on an other track with a fatter bass, so you have 2 same notation-tracks but with different instruments. use the EQ! and like stefancers said, its not false to use soft distortion.

dry bones · Post by **dry bones** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 2:03 pm

I use the 4Front Bass, with Fuzz+ and Blockfish to make it fat and juicy

dj_icon · Post by **dj_icon** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 2:10 pm

maybe its your monitors that are the problem, u cant hear the bass probly?

whiteboycomputernoise · Mon Apr 04, 2005 2:29 pm

let's hear the track. The best way to get good basslines is too listen to a lot of bass players and music with basslines that you like. Let's hear the track and hear what it sounds like. There is no way to fix a crappy user's bad taste if they dont listen to a lot of stuff. The more stuff you listen to, the larger your musical vocabulary will becoem and the more riff you will be able to articulate. I guess it all comes down to practice.

clueless · Post by **clueless** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 2:33 pm

yes, that's right, the best way to do music good is listen to lots of other music you can buy, and incorporate it into yourself, and yourself into it.

that way, you know exactly where you are

amij · Post by **amij** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 3:10 pm

istortion can help you.It's true that a monitors can be problem to.Do not use rewerb.Maybe little flanger.experiments are helpfull:) Good luck

soulata · Post by **soulata** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 3:26 pm

hmmm, interesting.

how would you approach bass lines that span over an octave and therefore don't have the same definition on every tone?

I mean, imagine a real bass guitar, it sounds really cool on the fifth string but kind of weak on the first two (generally speaking, vic wooten excluded)

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cptgone · Post by **cptgone** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 11:35 am

clueless wrote:listen to lots of other music you can buy, and incorporate it into yourself, and yourself into it.

that way, you know exactly where you are

...incorporated into the music in me???

CypherOne · Post by **CypherOne** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 11:44 am

yes, eat some CDs.

Orbitutle · Post by **Orbitutle** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 11:47 am

I sometimes boost some of the harmonics of the low freqs in my bass.. Like Waves Maxxbass does.. Gives a "deep" sound, without the mud in the low end..

CypherOne · Post by **CypherOne** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 11:48 am

okay serious answer - I layer sounds and use EQ, that's all usually. Maybe a phaser from time to time too.

effecting BASS LINE