In need of some help with learning to make dubby saturated sub bass

Start with a fundamental sine wave at ~50Hz.

Add harmonics in one or some of these ways:

  • Additive synthesis
  • Additional oscillators
  • Lowpass another wave eg saw, square, triangle, etc
  • Saturate/waveshape
  • Overdrive a preamp
  • Overcompress

Add movement by automating modulation of:

  • Frequency
  • Amplitude
  • Filter (even on a pure sine wave for a different tremolo effect)
  • Saturation drive/wet
    Or by adding portamento

Get it to to agree with the kick using any of:

  • Highpassing the kick between 50-100Hz (eg 80Hz)
  • Using non-100Hz overtones eg 150Hz, 75Hz. Squares and Triangles have odd overtones.
  • Side chaining.
    Then your snare’s fundamental sits around 200Hz, so pay attention to that if necessary.

The reason higher sub notes sound louder is because of the equal-loudness curve which compressing will not solve. You will have to manually adjust the velocity.

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