How to get a clean but deep and rich bass sound?

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Hi everyone, I’m new to the forum and have tried searching, but not found anything that has helped in the archives. I’ve been using Live for about 5 or 6 days now and following lots of the tutorials to get the hang of it. I feel like I’ve got the hang of programming drums so far, and I’ve done lots of experimenting with sylenth from doing the tutorials, but still havent managed to find out how to create the bass sound I’m looking for…



The kind of thing I’m after is rich, clean, deep and full, examples would be:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugX9__RBl1M



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCUklZF2IYo



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCYii868SrM



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzwr0HgTGxg



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfryDCAMDVQ





Bascially what I’ve tried already is using Sine waves, but the problem I’m having is I just cant get the right pitch, its either deep enough but way too quiet, almost like its all inaudible, or its too high, I’ve tried pitching some of the oscilators down an octave too. Then I tried using a bass guitar instead, but that didnt really work out either. I havent used a saw or square wave because from what I’ve seen on the tutorials that will be too industrial.



Any advice? It is done through EQing or other effects?



Looking forward to your replies! Cheers :slight_smile:


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Have you tried looking into some of the presets? Like the BS Booka? It uses 2 Saws. If you reduce the cutoff, the sound gets deeper and bassier.

Or the Tube Bass. Sounds deep as well.



You can create one as well.

Start the init preset. Select one oscillator with a sine wave. Pitch it 1 octave down. Stereo should be 0. And important, increase the voices to 5 or something. This will beef up the sound.

EQ the low end a bit up.



You can give it a bit of dirt by adding another oscillator and give this one the TriSaw. One or 2 voices. 1 octave down. Also center it (stereo=0).



Now you have to also introduce the filter on it, cause that trisaw will otherwise give a high & too dirty tone. We roll this off with a Lowpass filter. Play with the cutoff until you find the sound you like.



If this is not strong enough for you, you can add a compressor to that channel.



Good luck!