the.circular.motion.rub.it Posted July 6, 2004 Share Posted July 6, 2004 this is something ive wondered about for a while inspired by my interest in hip-hop and my buddys raptacular car audio system, i am interested in creating a bass tone that, for lack of a better term, 'pounds' i love riding in my buddys car and listening to.... feeling... the strong crushing power of a (properly EQd) pair of 12" subwoofers and accompanying other stuff so, how can i do this? im not speaking as much from a live standpoint, as a recording standpoint... how can i create those phat, deep, pounding, resonant tones? i dont know how much of it would be mic'ing... EQing... buy-new-amping... good-in-locking-with0the-kick-druming... i dont even know if what im talking about with the normal range of the 4string electric bass guitar or hell maybe i just need bigger speakers +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ steppin in a rhythm to a kurtis blow/who needs a beat when your feet just go +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wraub Posted July 6, 2004 Share Posted July 6, 2004 Roland 808. Use responsibly. Peace, wraub I'm a lot more like I am now than I was when I got here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeronyne Posted July 6, 2004 Share Posted July 6, 2004 Yep, the sine wave is Lord-King-God of full speaker-excursion. "For instance" is not proof. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afro_Man Posted July 7, 2004 Share Posted July 7, 2004 MORE BASS! It couldn't hurt to get bigger speakers either. "i must've wrote 30 songs the first weekend i met my true love ... then she died and i got stuck with this b****" - Father of the Pride Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexclaber Posted July 7, 2004 Share Posted July 7, 2004 Originally posted by the.circular.motion.rub.it: inspired by my interest in hip-hop and my buddys raptacular car audio system, i am interested in creating a bass tone that, for lack of a better term, 'pounds'... ...so, how can i do this? im not speaking as much from a live standpoint, as a recording standpoint... how can i create those phat, deep, pounding, resonant tones?Palm-muting and thumb-plucking will get you halfway. Flatwounds could help. Fuzz (e.g. Big Muff) with the treble turned down. Envelope filter (e.g. DOD FX25) set so it doesn't open. Compression. Aphex Big Bottom. Parametric EQ to stop the bass and kick conflicting. Miced cab with a kick drum mic (e.g. AKG D112). Synth pedals. You need a combination of fake low end (so it can be heard on small radios) and real low end (so you can feel it on big systems). Alex Barefaced Ltd - ultra lightweight, high ouput, toneful bass cabs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcr Posted July 7, 2004 Share Posted July 7, 2004 Originally posted by C.Alexander Claber: Envelope filter (e.g. DOD FX25) set so it doesn't open.I stumbled on this by accident myself one day! Super fat, in a puncy, hard-hitting kind of way, rather than in a warm, silky kind of way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doc taz Posted July 7, 2004 Share Posted July 7, 2004 Maybe going fretless with flatwounds, and using passive humbuckers, or stacked pickups (like Duncan's Jazz Bass Stacks). Passive electronics all the way. At least going fretless would help, as that removes the metal from the fretboard. sevenstring.org profile my flickr page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raven Posted July 7, 2004 Share Posted July 7, 2004 Will this 18" sub do? http://home.planet.nl/~heuv0283/parasubs/dscf0019.jpg Just add 600+ watts Here\'s where I found this.... Rock on...... BCR's homepage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DONUT Posted July 7, 2004 Share Posted July 7, 2004 I used to use 2 brown boss octave pedals. I used one with the fundamental note turned off so just the first octave was being used. The resulting tone is just a really deep sine wave type thing with no attack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doc taz Posted July 8, 2004 Share Posted July 8, 2004 Originally posted by Raven: Will this 18" sub do? http://home.planet.nl/~heuv0283/parasubs/dscf0019.jpg Just add 600+ watts Here\'s where I found this.... Rock on......Wow, that's an awesome cab! I'd pair that with a 4x10. Now that would rock the house! sevenstring.org profile my flickr page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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