Sine wave for low bass?

[abt]

Something I've heard about many times but never really tired (okay I tried once with trillian) is using a programed sine-wave for the low end of the bass guitar tone.

Anyone doing this? Anyone care to share some examples?

 

[ForHerDeadEyes]

IIRC, you high-pass the bass-track so the fundamental note is cut, then you add a sine-wave as the fundamental note.
Basically you replace it with a "clean" note so you don't have to tune down that low and/or you want the low-end to be more controlled.
I did some experiments with it a few years ago, but.. meh.. I haven't continued doing it..

 

[nezvers]

If bass is played on good with click and you like bass below kick approach... why not.
I've done that with programmed bass guitar and it was improvement, so I think it should be same with live bass guitar if it isn't deviating from notes played.
Also you can "compress" sine wave notes to stay in certain range even if bass guitar is playing more than inside one octave.

In this way you can side-chain sinewave to control low-end.

On sidenote, I've done on real bass guitar - steep lowpass -> heavy distortion to get hard limited effect, but supper steady -> than again steep lowpass and I'm getting something similar like saturated sinewave -> limit if needed... Just try it.

 

[sander]

I haven't tried sine wave, but i do layer a programmed bass track with the real bass for more consistent low end pretty often, especially if i'm dealing with shit or mediocre bassists.