What bass plugins do you use?

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Hi again peeps hope ya'll had a great xmas and new year...

For a while now i've been on a quest to find the kind of bass sounds that DJ's like Thomas Gold, Eric Smax or Dirty South (to name a few) use
in there great productions/remixes.

I myself have many a cool bass vsti and can spend hours trimming - tuning
and de-tuning etc. I kinda like to feel that, in some way, it is possible
to re-create some of the fantastic rifts heard in many a great electronic
house track and.. Well, maybe I come close - at times!!

It was quite cool the other day when a friend of mine was listening to a
track in my car and said "is this something you've done?" -

sadly.... I had to say no, its not me but.. I was pleased that maybe she
had even considered that it could possibly have been me to make such a
comment!!

I guess my question is... What kind of plugins do YOU use to get anywhere
near close to some of those awesome and deep grinding bass lines?

I guess that this post is for us all. Maybe we can all learn a bit more
about some of the more SECRET ways and methods used in getting that sought
after commercial sound!!


Im also popping this link in because, I've been getting this mag for a while
now and think its pretty cool... http://www.futuremusic.co.uk/

Check it out the Martin Solveig 'One.2.3.Four' Remix Contest - its cool!! :shock:
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FL Studio's built in synth 3xOSC, Z3ta+, Zebra2, Synth1, TAL-Bassline. Hn, that's just about all I use all together ._.
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Do you want to recreate the actual riffs (not rifts) or just the sounds? They are two different things.

Don't recreate the commercial sound, it's been done. Create your own.
Don't recreate sounds, they've already been done. Create your own.

You'd be surprised how many people are tired of the same old shit.
I still think, your punctuation sucks, and your spelling isn't cool! So there...
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I agree. Big difference between a riff (an arpeggiated bass line is what I assume we're talking about here) and an effect plug or sound generator.

I just picked up Sylenth1 in the group buy and there's some great patches in there. Ditto Massive.

For bass SOUND though, I have IK's Ampeg SVX which, to my ear, takes just about any bass signal and transforms the complete sound into whatever the SVX patch name is. From synth to acoustic to Jaco to plucked, it almost doesn't matter what your source sound is.

Cheers
-B
Berfab
So many plugins, so little time...
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I use ManyBass just for quick outlines. When I'm ready to go, I overdub my '75 Ric 4001 by running it direct and in stereo if I'm using both pickups.
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mandt wrote:Do you want to recreate the actual riffs (not rifts) or just the sounds? They are two different things.
Ok, Maybe I wasn't very clear to start, my mistake on the spelling front I think.

A "riff" is an ostinato figure: a repeated chord progression, pattern.

A "rift" is a place where the Earth's crust and lithosphere are being pulled apart. so... My apologies to Mandt and others for that.

Im not looking to re-create any of the actual key lines and/or melodies, only to re-create the Electronic House Bass sound using any VSTi plugin that anyone cares to recommend!

Of course I write and play many a diffrent bass line in many of my remix compositions but, thats not whats in question here. I guess its more about the learning curve thing and... Weather its "the same old commercial crap"
or not - someone somewhere will always be glad of the knowledge and advice
of others. Thanx AMR :band2:
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