Beefing up Bass in Ableton

Performance & Techniques Music Production
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Beefing up Bass in Ableton

Hi,

Do you guys have any tips for beefing up baselines in Ableton?

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whatever you mean by beefind up.. corpus is nice for subbass..

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Basslines? Subbass?

A little overdrive or distortion (used correctly) goes a long way.

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I’m talking baselines here. Beefier, Chunkier, Fuller pick one they all mean the same thing. I’ve created a nice baseline for my track using Massive but it needs more oomph. I’m looking for some recommended tricks to get it sounding big!

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couple things

1 layer synths…now idk how far along you are so that means (to me at least) making multiple instances of a synth…detuning/changing octives/throwing chorus on it or spreading it out ( or the inverse…making it mono or similar) to make it more…there i should say

2 high pass everything above 200 (150?) and throw a sub underneath that hits whenever the other one does…in this case throw a low pass at about 200 on the sub so that they are seperate…but be sure to cut anything under 30 u dont wanna blow up shit haha

3 do both lol

edit:
sausage fattener is kinda nice too

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notch out your kick drums first fundamental frequency then notch out its harmonics. waves renaissance bass is a good processing plugin for bass

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Sometimes the bit crusher also helps. Or something like Camel Audio’s CamelPhat or the free Camel Audio CamelCrusher.

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for bass lines distortion, bitcrusher, etc…but for pure subbass I’d say the less processing, the better

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I’m a big fan of the CLA2A compressor. Can really push the shit out it and make the bass hum.

Just make sure you are adding a sub bass if you don’t have one (around the C2 range works well for me) and make sure you have a proper set up to actually “hear” it. If you trying to make it on shitty headphones/speakers you will never be able to tell what you’re doing

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Cheers dudes, Yeh I think it’s probably a case of adding more sub bass to get the rumble behind it. That Corpus idea seems good. I’ll give that a go. I’ve got the Waves plug ins so i’ll check out renaissance as well.

Any of you guys used T-racks3 for adding volume and home mastering? thoughts?

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I like the compressor in IK T-Racks3. Use it here and there but I’m really drowning in compressor plug-ins (all purchased, btw.)

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in massive go into VOICING. Set the unisono to 4. like, 1st pit stop for me and bass patch creation. that should start you on our way.

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Layer a sine wav (Operator) underneath to get some low end oomph, maybe an octave down depending on how deep your bassline is. Saturator is a gret way to give just a little bit of bite to basslines to make sure they still cut through the mix and don’t get masked by the kick.