I got to play a bit more ambient guitar this weekend, and have some more fun with my Live effects box/looper setup. One effect I get a lot of mileage out of in this setup is the Grain Delay. I use several of them for a few different purposes, one of which is pitch shifting […]
SIMPLE BASS
Bass sounds can be tricky – but they can also be very simple. Many times you simply need something solid sounding to fill up the low end of a track without getting in the way of other parts of the song. The trick to good sounding bass is often striking the right balance between the […]
ROBOT NINJA ASSASIN BASS
So we’ve talked a bit about a few things you can do with sine wave sounds, but haven’t yet addressed the bass arms race that’s going on in a wide variety of genres these days. To make these gigantic aggressive bass sounds, you may not want to start with a sine wave. Switch over oscillator […]
WAVESHAPIN’
Lately, I’ve been making a lot of aggressive bass sounds with lots of high end buzz and fuzz. For some saturation insanity in your basses, Live’s Saturator used in Waveshaper mode is pretty awesome. What scares folks away from the Waveshaper tends to be the 6 boxes in the lower right that come to life […]
