1.5 Octaves of Long TUNED 808 Hits (a.k.a "SUB BOOMS")

[colynomial]

Hey- I got sick of trying to find the right sub pushes to match the key of the song so I made a whole bunch and labelled them by note name.

Basically just a sine wave with some envelope baloney played through the entire scale from C1 down to G-1. Hopefully they're useful to someone.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/35990709/CP_SUBS.zip

 

[The-Zeronaut]

Cool
Thanks!!

 

[Wookieslayer]

Lol sick! thanks

 

[DullElysium]

Thank you sir!

 

[Sloan]

Thanks for sharing

 

[java]

Thank you !!!!

 

[colonel_claypoo]

thanks man!

 

[Rex Rocker]

Thank you!

 

[FIXXXER]

Hey- I got sick of trying to find the right sub pushes to match the key of the song so I made a whole bunch and labelled them by note name.

Basically just a sine wave with some envelope baloney played through the entire scale from C1 down to G-1. Hopefully they're useful to someone.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/35990709/CP_SUBS.zip

cool stuff man!

this may sound stupid...it probably is but...how do you tell the key of a song!?

i'd say it has something to do with tuning, but then again when i think of classical music the tuning is always the same, there's no drop tunings etc.

you seem to know about that stuff, that's why i'm asking

 

[if6was9]

cool stuff man!

this may sound stupid...it probably is but...how do you tell the key of a song!?

i'd say it has something to do with tuning, but then again when i think of classical music the tuning is always the same, there's no drop tunings etc.

you seem to know about that stuff, that's why i'm asking

The music scale being used, the notes being played, tell you the key. That's music 101, very very basic!

 

[D20]

Sweet thx!!!

 

[mirflee]

Question, does it matter in a live band situation to have the bass drops according to the key of the song?

Thanks!

 

[SethTheGreat]

Question, does it matter in a live band situation to have the bass drops according to the key of the song?

Thanks!

It's up to you. It doesn't matter as much as something like having your guitar in tune, but it can matter depending on the material. Try it and see how it sounds.

I believe (and correct me if I'm wrong here) that most folks just tune their bass drops to whatever tuning their guitar is in. Playing in Drop C? Sub drops in C, etc..

 

[colynomial]

Yea it helps to keep things a little tighter sounding if you tune the sub drop to same note as what you're chugging on.

When you get really low it ends up just sounding like wind anyways, but for sure if you can "hear" the fundamental frequency of the note in the sub and it's an octave down from the lowest bass note it's going to sound nice and "resolved" when you hit that root.

For the record these probably need some compression to keep sub resonating for the duration of the sample.

EDIT: actually a good example of a tuned sub drop is the track Murderer by Impending Doom (section that comes in around 1:40): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xHgaPXjAlo