bass drops

[chdrummer]

or "sub drops." what's everyone's way of making them here? I just normally use pitch shift in pro tools. but i know there's plenty of other ways to do it.

 

[P-E]

I think a lot of people use pitch-shifted sine waves, but I could very well be wrong.

 

[doclegion]

Well there is a couple ways i go about this either
A-i use a techno kick or
B-I design a bass drop in reason using a little automation on the pitchshift with a fat bass tone it more of a decending drop then i make wavs out of it and import where i want them, Oh and being in the right key helps


But dont tell anyone its a secret

 

[SentencedToBurn]

you guys make everything so hard on yourselves. lol. just use an 808 kick or anything a synth would offer. why would you design your own bass drop in reason when reason already offers like 16 of them. I mean its not like anyone is going to notice a "unique" bass drop. just my two cents.

 

[ConspiracyBass]

Yeah, the 808 bass drop works quite well, for like, everything you'd need a bass drop for.

 

[chdrummer]

yeah the 808 is def a classic thing to use. Sometimes i just stretch it out for a longer impact!

 

[doclegion]

you guys make everything so hard on yourselves. lol. just use an 808 kick or anything a synth would offer. why would you design your own bass drop in reason when reason already offers like 16 of them. I mean its not like anyone is going to notice a "unique" bass drop. just my two cents.

I use reason that way i have more control over the sound and the note and as i said i make desending sub drops you know from high to low i use the 808 but its a techno kick which means it just goes BOOOOOOM there is no character to it and its plain
just my two cents

 

[Bombdeck]

Does anyone every use these live? if so what do you use to trigger them?

 

[greyskull]

i just use the pitchshifter one.... when its insisted upon.

 

[chdrummer]

i will be using them live once i buy my sample pad.

http://www.zzounds.com/item--ROLSPDS

 

[iamandy]

i use Adobe audition and use the "Generate Tones" part..

here is 3 that i use mostly:

https://files.getdropbox.com/u/644974/1boom.mp3
https://files.getdropbox.com/u/644974/2boom.mp3
https://files.getdropbox.com/u/644974/3boom.mp3

and i have used them live.. My bassist mic's up a Tom that my drummer doesn't use into his Firepod, then sets it up in cubase, and uses drumagog to use the sample, then output of the firepod it into the P.A system

 

[Bombdeck]

i will be using them live once i buy my sample pad.

http://www.zzounds.com/item--ROLSPDS

Dude i got one of these. There a real mission.

Firstly, It doesn't have USB (!!?) You have to find a memory card that actually works with it, type 1 512mb max.
Secondly the audio file has to be in a 16bit uncompressed. Even then when i tried doing that it didn't seem to see it on the memory card.

It works fine if you use it for a trigger with a laptop but this isn't as convenient for some. I ended up taking a line out from my interface and recording the samples from that. Doesn't sound as good but convincing enough.

Im really surprised that roland haven't updated this for years cause this would be phenomenally better if it had USB and more internal memory.

 

[Ancient_Acolyte]

have a look at this link:

http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/5/1/1037727/InfectedMushroom kickdrum Tutorial.jpg.zip

it's a bunch of screenshots using Soundforge which teaches how to create a PsyTrance kick....but basically it's about generating a 80Hz Sine wave and pitching it down with an envelope. It was part of a tutorial by Infected Mushroom - it'll show you how to create subdrops using SF (or any other wave editor), as gay as sub-drabs may or may be toadilly gay

=D

 

[Jordon]

Does anyone every use these live? if so what do you use to trigger them?

We run all of our backing tracks (synths, sub drops, stuff like that) through Ableton Live and some M-Audio I/O. We use longer sub drops live than on recordings. We start them at a pitch, and automate the pitch to drop a few steps like doclegion talked about. They're about 4 seconds long and start to decay after 2.3 seconds. We find the longer ones have more of an impact and are more noticeable, instead of a "Hey, what was that?" kind of reaction. We don't worry about them being in key live, as we're just looking for the oomph and bowel-ravaging low end.

....Oh and we compress the hell out of them so they have a nice attack.

 

[AudioGeekZine]

i just use the pitchshifter one.... when its insisted upon.

As soon as I read your post I had to go and listen to that album, still wicked after all these years.

 

[Razzee]

Does anyone every use these live? if so what do you use to trigger them?

yeah, our drummer is triggering them.

edrum pad --> edrum modul --> midi interface --> laptop with reaper and a plugin (not drumagog) --> line6 ux2 --> into the pult

 

[JoshSylosis]

dont bother making em

just download the song 'free samples' off the pitchshifter album www.pitchshifter.com (yes thats the name of the album)
45 seconds in to the song....or theres one 3 seconds in

you can listen to it on spotify

they shouldn't sound like much on their own but they work in the mix

 

[joeymusicguy]

sine wave at 60 hz, linear drop to 20 hz over specified amount of time

add bass enhancement of some sort, and you're done

 

[doclegion]

sine wave at 60 hz, linear drop to 20 hz over specified amount of time

add bass enhancement of some sort, and you're done

Im lost man hahahaha

 

[Erik Monsonis]

Remember to slip it a few ms after the bass drum transient, so they don't attack the mastering compressor at the same time

This one rules.
http://files.getdropbox.com/u/425433/not quantized.wav

This doesn't pump the mastering comp enough.
http://files.getdropbox.com/u/425433/quantized to kick transient.wav


































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