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what's wrong with this bassline?
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| beamrider |
Hi all,
After a couple of finished songs send it to various producers and Djs the feedback I have says that my basslines has not enough "presence" or "body", "they need more movement", "they need to be more alive", etc. so I said to myself to create a loop with drums and percusion, and a typical bassline like those I use to have in my songs.
There are 3 basses, one sub off-beat with eq+compresion+sidechain, one mid bass rollin with eq+compresion+a very little delay+sidechain and another off-beat on a higher octave with eq+compression+delay+sidechain.
I would appreciate any tips, or corrections on this not just the bassline, maybe you want to suggest me something related to drums and precusion.
Here's the link:
http://www.zshare.net/audio/6601683159f7bc55/
Thanks in advance. |
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| adi_hanson |
| You said yourself , its not present , its too quiet and too far back in the mix , im not a fan of the ASOT bassline but i can tell its none present , my tip is to stereo seperate the high end of the bassline and turn the volume up!so it is prominent and dosnt interfere with the lower end sounds. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| Nothing sounds "wrong" with the sound itself to me, but the pattern is just not very interesting and doesn't make me want to dance. There's no groove there. |
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| Waza |
| you could maybe add more LFo's to it. or even open up the cutoff with a Lfo. |
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| Subtle |
| Kick is too heavy. |
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| msz |
| homie J what are you currently using for your bass synth? |
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| beamrider |
Thank you all for the replies,
msz: for this one I use just sylenth1
ps: sorry my ignorance but what does that "homie j" thing means? |
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| Subtle |
| quote: | Originally posted by beamrider
msz: for this one I use just sylenth1
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Try using the bitcrusher effect on it. |
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| evo8 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Subtle
Kick is too heavy. |
agree
if you lower the kick then consequently that bassline will become louder |
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| Nemesis44 |
Nothing wrong with that bassline.
What you should probably look at though is to get some separate patches and write some more interesting bass hooks on top of this one and just use this as the meat of the track.
Perhaps just bring down the kick a touch.
Cheers
Nem |
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| cryophonik |
| quote: | Originally posted by Nemesis44
Perhaps just bring down the kick a touch.
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...and maybe bring the bass up a touch? It's definitely a kick/bass balance issue here IMO. |
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