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solstice · Post by **solstice** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 5:54 pm

Hi im working on a tune using TR-909 samples loaded into battery 2 and audiorealism's bassline to get 303 sounds..question is, I dont want to use the distortion built into the 303 bassline so can anyone reccomend a really good distortion plugin for cubase sx. Also a plugin that can add something to my 909 samples. What sort of effects do the pros use to make their 909's 303's and 808's sound better?

jmh · Post by **jmh** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 6:10 pm

EQ and compression are the first tools to go to for those 909s. After that, getting creative with something like overdrive/distortion and... practically anything

Dominion and Blockfish from DigitalFishPhones are great freebie tools for shaping drums.

As for the distortion... before people recommend you all the expensive commercial ones, check out Voxengo's Boogex. It's practically fixed to my ABL now, the absolutely first distortion plugin to try out

And don't forget to experiment with compression and EQ on that BassLine either!

Regards,

JMH

safeaim · Post by **safeaim** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 6:10 pm

PSP Vintagewarmer og Izotope Trash works wonder, both for the drums and the 303

Top of the shelve-plugins

omo · Post by **omo** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 8:20 pm

Try Antares Tube

Rusty Shackleford · Post by **Rusty Shackleford** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 8:44 pm

if you're using SX, quadrafuzz can give some serious grit to acid lines but be careful to not make it sound like poo. I sometimes use audio damage's fuzz+ (free at audiodamage.com) for really thrashy 303 sounds, but Antares Tube in devil mode might be closer to the typical overdriven acid sound. Also, compress the hell out of your 303 (blockfish would do the trick).

Also, Camelphat3 looks perfect for this sort of thing. I haven't tried it yet, but it looks like exactly the sort of plugin i'd use on a 303 line.

rsmus7 · Post by **rsmus7** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 8:54 pm

or Cyanide2 from smex
is nice for distortion
and free

snooky · Post by **snooky** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 9:11 pm

safeaim wrote:PSP Vintagewarmer og Izotope Trash works wonder, both for the drums and the 303 Top of the shelve-plugins

one is an warming/saturation emu, the other and Amp emu..none is good for overdriven synth sounds...

Rusty Shackleford · Post by **Rusty Shackleford** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 4:16 am

vintagewarmer is a compressor first and foremost, and a compressor is essential for taming a dynamic 303 line. As for Trash not being suitable for overdriven synth sounds - why not? Guitar pedals weren't made for 303s either, but everyone uses them.

Dazza66 · Post by **Dazza66** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 9:31 am

In terms of distortion units, this one seems to get a lot of good feedback (pardon the pun

) around here:

FreeAmp SE

http://www.kvraudio.com/get/1786.html ....and its free!

Barbed Wire Kiss · Post by **Barbed Wire Kiss** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 10:28 am

If you fancy something different try OctBUZ. It's an octaver and distortion all in one.

Ronny Pries · Post by **Ronny Pries** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 11:41 am

Bass Line loves the LA2A

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loomchild · Post by **loomchild** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 12:11 pm

flatline it so that you can't hear the effect of the accent anymore? No way

Rusty Shackleford · Post by **Rusty Shackleford** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 10:08 pm

Jonny X wrote:Could somebody explain the term; 'compress the hell out of' does this mean flatline it, remove the different velocitys or just add 6dB of gain reduction?

Acid lines can be very dynamic with all the tweaking of the filter cutoff, resonance, accents etc. Compressing the signal will yield better results, and more even results, especially if you compress before the distortion stage. That's all that I meant.

Ronny: Haven't tried the LA-2A on acid yet! I've been using the 1176SE on my Future Retro 777 but i'll try that out and see how it goes

TR-909 and TB-303