Author Topic: Please help!  (Read 6117 times)

Louda

  • Subsonic
  • Posts: 2
  • Honor: 0
    • View Profile
Please help!
« on: February 01, 2017, 07:45:29 pm »
This bass sound has eluded me forever it seems. How do I make this bass, the horn/harmonic hummmmm tone, ugh so good. Im using sylenth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSrX3EVMn3E
cheers

vinceasot

  • Low Mid
  • **
  • Posts: 344
  • Honor: 32
    • View Profile
Re: Please help!
« Reply #1 on: February 02, 2017, 12:34:13 pm »
well start with the wave form, it sounds quite sine wavy to me

eidolon

  • Administrator
  • Sub Bass
  • *****
  • Posts: 105
  • Honor: 49
    • View Profile
Re: Please help!
« Reply #2 on: February 02, 2017, 07:49:43 pm »
what vinceasot said is good advice! getting familiar with the timbres of basic waveforms is super helpful for learning sound design.

this sounds like it's two main layers - a low sine wave serving as a bass, and a pair of two detuned sine waves playing perfect fifths over it. so Part A would be just a simple Sine wave, maybe mix in a very soft square and lowpass it if you want some extra harmonics. Part B would be the two sines both up +7 semitones, one slightly detuned from the other. that gives it steadiness in the low end, while being wobbly up top.
from there, some light distortion - i got pretty close using just some soft clipping, you could probably use sylenth's built in distortion too. hope that helps!
check out the chat!! you can join here.