its not a phase issue.you dont have a sub in your room do you?
Nope… just my ronkit 5’s mate
try lowering the filter cutoff in the filter control section of sylenth.you will not hear as much of that lowmid bass in the beginning part but it will be less of a shock when it gets to the part you drop it.
Hmmm firstly I’m no expert at all. But thought I’d just throw a suggestion out there. As was sort of mentioned before you could split the bassline into two channels, so that the drop notes are in a channel of their own. Then this would allow you to play around with eq and add compression specifically to the drop notes. My thought process behind this is… different notes have a specific fundamental frequency, for example C3 has a frequency of 130.81 hz.
So if you’re dropping the note to a different (lower) note, then the fundamental frequency of the new note will also be lower, this could possibly account for a loss of that “drive” because if you’re just using one eq on the bassline then it may not be satisfying the lower notes that you have. So maybe try this and play around with the eq a bit, possibly try boosting around the fundamental frequency of the low note you’re using on the low notes specific channel (if you don’t know I imagine you can google frequencies and should find something) until u feel the drive has returned. If this works then add compression if needed.
Hope this kind of makes sense and again you may already know this better than I do, but just thought I’d post it incase it works!
[quote]Ben Lloyd (20/08/2010)[hr]Hmmm firstly I’m no expert at all. But thought I’d just throw a suggestion out there. As was sort of mentioned before you could split the bassline into two channels, so that the drop notes are in a channel of their own. Then this would allow you to play around with eq and add compression specifically to the drop notes. My thought process behind this is… different notes have a specific fundamental frequency, for example C3 has a frequency of 130.81 hz.
So if you’re dropping the note to a different (lower) note, then the fundamental frequency of the new note will also be lower, this could possibly account for a loss of that “drive” because if you’re just using one eq on the bassline then it may not be satisfying the lower notes that you have. So maybe try this and play around with the eq a bit, possibly try boosting around the fundamental frequency of the low note you’re using on the low notes specific channel (if you don’t know I imagine you can google frequencies and should find something) until u feel the drive has returned. If this works then add compression if needed.
Hope this kind of makes sense and again you may already know this better than I do, but just thought I’d post it incase it works!:)[/quote]
ahh, now i understand what bobby meant, I’ll give this a try now I understand. Boosting the fundamental is a good idea I think. Thanks for clearing that up
thanks ben for making my initial tip digestible.
Haha no problem guys, hope it works for you Wayne
Thanks for all the advice guys, think I’ve just about managed to get it right, EQ of the fundamentals seems to be the key so thanks again. The advice is appreciated