How to sustain bass drop bomb?
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kaomao
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you can take a subdrop and use a slowdown tape/tape stop effect (whatever it's called), it will change the pitch so you'll gain a lot more sustain
Erik Monsonis
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I just use a sine wave generator like ReaSynth, program a MIDI note as long an as low as I need. Automate pitch shift downslope. Done. 
like a natural nuclear bomb
You know, before I'd try to use sine waves(sometimes I'd add distortion to them), pitch shifted kick drums or toms and all sorts of things and they were never beefy enough. I just figured "it sounds like a bomb, lets put in a bomb" and it sounded fantastic. My brother works with sound designers and such, so fortunately for me he had a nice sample in his library, but experiment with it and see if it works for you. I only wanted to emulate devon townsend when I did it and I don't know if that's the right way going about it or not, but it seemed to work.
I can't remember where else I used it, but here's where I used it in the intro my band uses live. This is the first version of it and it's changed a lot, but I can't really find the actual mix(it was on my old computer that died whilst it was being backed up!) but here's an example of it in action(it's right at the end at 1:47): https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2161748/RoughMixIntro(1).mp3
TRUIE
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+1, that's how I do it too.I just use a sine wave generator like ReaSynth, program a MIDI note as long an as low as I need. Automate pitch shift downslope. Done.
More explanations here :
http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/9423533-post10.html
