Hi once again,
I opened another thread because it is not related to my other ableton thread.
I am working on a remix for Owl City’s fireflies and I need a sub bass simmilar to the bass in Bassnectars remix to Ellie Gouldings Lights. Does anybody know the preset for it, because I am doing this as an individual school project and I only have a month to make it, so I need really quick support.
just give me like some numbers on the knobs so I know what to change and I can take it from there.
sub bass is usually just a sine wave with whatever appropriate amplitude envelope on it - not familiar with the song you’re talking about but hardly any sub basses stray beyond that
trial and error. turn the knobs and faders and press buttons. find the sound that you are looking for. do not always expect someone will feed you the answers. in that way you will learn to do things unique only to you.
I usually use 2 instances of operator to make a sub bass in ableton.
First instance is a sine wave, second instance is a triangle wave.
I then put a saturator with a medium curve on to beef it up and give it some slight distortional character.
Then just top it off with a low pass filter to get rid of the un-sub-like high end produced by the triangle wave and cut it off at around 180Hz. Apply compression if needed!