Sine Bass

Production
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This might sound obvious, but did you try increasing the attack and increasing or decreasing the release?

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Me? Sure, I adjust attack & release, but it’s not enough only by itself. Not at least in ES2. If you have OSC start set to “free”, you need to have really long attack to get ride of all that click from DC offset. I think it also depends on what you’re listening on. I’m using headphones for the most of the time so all clicks and pops sound louder.

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Maybe try a different synth. Massive works for me, for example.

And yes, in the corner of my post it shows that I was replying to you.

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That is not DC offset, but I get you. DC offset is when the entire wave is shifted up or down, so imagine you could have a sine wave oscillating entirely above the x axis, for example.

Problem with using long attacks is you can lose the punch at the start of the note. Eq will fix this.

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Shouldn’t have to be audibly long.

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i cant get massive to punch without clicking, without the help of eq

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Hm. Well there’s other shit you can do, like turn down the sustain or have the note start at +7 or +12 and bend down quickly.

EDIT: Or you could leave a bit of daylight at the end of the notes.

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I usually lowpass my sub to remove the click. Yolo

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What I mean is that the wave doesn’t start at 0, which results in clicky artefacts.

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yo se

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word!

never found a way to use gates before that wasn’t totally awful

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I’m not really sure if this is related but I working on a project where a regular vocal sample is in the tone of G while the sub bass is C. It’s sounds very good but I feel so dirty not tuning them together…what should I do?

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not every note needs to be the same pitch

c and g is a perfect fifth, thats why it sounds good

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I use EXS24 default patch, literally cut everything except around 22.5-75Khz, then compress with soft output distortion from Logic’s standard compressor, before another E.Q with around the same parameters. My subs are always around the same volume as my kicks :slight_smile:

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biggest thing for me is sidechaining the kick to the sub. lets you make the sub alot louder, and lets be honest what else is likely to be clashing with your sub

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low end rumble on any other instrument including all the top end stuff

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I think the assumption is that u cut all that shit out with a hpf

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tbf you shouldn’t even have any low end rumble on anything else, especially the top end stuff

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haha yeah sure, thats why you cut it, is was just responding to ‘and lets be honest what else is likely to be clashing with your sub’

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