Help! UK Hard Trance Bass
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- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 4 posts since 15 May, 2016
Hi guys!
First post on this forum but long time reader.
I've been trying for ages to find a good tutorial for making a solid UK Hard Trance bass sound. Unfortunately, the definition of "Hard Trance" seems to differ massively across the world. I get thousands of hits when I search it, but none seem to match the specific style I'm looking for.
Can anyone provide any insight? I've attached 2 example tracks here, I'm looking for the first one in particular.
https://soundcloud.com/unit-one-recordi ... coms-remix
https://soundcloud.com/unit-one-recordi ... un-with-it
Any help would be massively appreciated!
First post on this forum but long time reader.
I've been trying for ages to find a good tutorial for making a solid UK Hard Trance bass sound. Unfortunately, the definition of "Hard Trance" seems to differ massively across the world. I get thousands of hits when I search it, but none seem to match the specific style I'm looking for.
Can anyone provide any insight? I've attached 2 example tracks here, I'm looking for the first one in particular.
https://soundcloud.com/unit-one-recordi ... coms-remix
https://soundcloud.com/unit-one-recordi ... un-with-it
Any help would be massively appreciated!
- KVRian
- 1362 posts since 17 Jul, 2007 from Riversland Valhalla
With Sylenth1 it is easy, as it has some dirty distortion.
Keep the things simple, 2 osc. one is sine wave and other is saw, sine should be lower by 1 octave from the saw, add LP filter a bit, then apply the distortion, you can't really get the same bass as in above example as it is made up from two layers I believe. But you can achieve some good nasty hardstyle basses.
Keep the things simple, 2 osc. one is sine wave and other is saw, sine should be lower by 1 octave from the saw, add LP filter a bit, then apply the distortion, you can't really get the same bass as in above example as it is made up from two layers I believe. But you can achieve some good nasty hardstyle basses.
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- KVRist
- 175 posts since 23 Jan, 2015
I would rather take a square, doesn't sound like a sawbass... you can make the bass with every synth. I made it with polysynth from bitwig. ...you can use the free synth1, sylenth, zebra, hive, massive ...anything
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- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 4 posts since 15 May, 2016
Thanks for your help, but I'm really terrible at making sounds from scratch.
I've tried your tips but can't get anything remotely similar.
Are you aware of any tutorials on Youtube that make similar sounds?
I've tried your tips but can't get anything remotely similar.
Are you aware of any tutorials on Youtube that make similar sounds?
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- KVRer
- 1 posts since 13 Nov, 2019
Hi there, that bass is saw wave not square lol. Just seen this posted to the artists wall(that you used the example links of). The bass is just a saw thats been side chained off the kick and had some attack, little decay and a tad of distortion. There is no specific way of making the wuab style bass you mean, you can either synth it from a saw as said or reverse a kick(like hardstyle) and chop the end(beginning of the kick) which leaves you with the slap and then again sidechain it to the kick drum. An 808 kick makes a fun sound(arne l2 style).
My name is jamie kenny/dj katastrophe on facebook if you need any other help, i run one of the labels “Coms” is featured on
My name is jamie kenny/dj katastrophe on facebook if you need any other help, i run one of the labels “Coms” is featured on
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- Patchmeister
- 1774 posts since 3 Nov, 2010
The bass really is just a saw. low pass filter it a bit. scoop out some mid with eq around 600Hz add bit of distortion and you're done
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- Patchmeister
- 1774 posts since 3 Nov, 2010
There's pitch modulation and filter modulation going on and a high-pass filter is used on a simple saw.
Going to bed now but let me know if you need more help
Ill check in again tomrorrow
Going to bed now but let me know if you need more help
Ill check in again tomrorrow
CHOOSX Remakes on my Youtube Channel
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- KVRer
- 2 posts since 25 Feb, 2020
Thank you but this still doesn’t get close it’s a very gritty sound and I’ve messed about with voices of unison and distortion to try and get width aswell as the aggressiveness but can’t seem to get it
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- Patchmeister
- 1774 posts since 3 Nov, 2010
i can assure you there's no unison nor width.
ok i got pretty close
you need a vst with 3 oscillators.
1 = Saw
2 = Saw One octave up
3 = Sine One octave and 7 semitones up.
low pass it to where you like it.
Add this in an eq Add some subtle distortion too taste. try different distortions which all give some different characters to the sound.
That's it
Let me know how you get on
ok i got pretty close
you need a vst with 3 oscillators.
1 = Saw
2 = Saw One octave up
3 = Sine One octave and 7 semitones up.
low pass it to where you like it.
Add this in an eq Add some subtle distortion too taste. try different distortions which all give some different characters to the sound.
That's it
Let me know how you get on
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