I am trying to recreate the automation/whatever happens to the bass here.

I am also trying to recreate the basses sound and struggling heavily as you can see

The only thing I've done so far that seemed to work is EQ the the Actual.wav and look at the frequency spread and try to recreate it, any other tips for recreating sounds like this?



Do you guys think I was on the right track, it just cuts off and raises pitch is what I heard, maybe a bit faster than what I automated does anyone know how I should be doing this.

 

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Could be a tapestop effect on it. Your one goes up.
Look into tapestop effects or grossbeat if you on FLStudio.

 

One of your difficulties is easy to detect. The pitch in the Actual.wav is falling, not rising.

 

As a bassist I can tell another - you almost have the tone - the attack on the very beginning of the note is not the same and you have tried to get the swell after which is almost there, aside from it should be falling instead of rising... there is like a "booohahhh.." it has and the bottom end expanding a bit more than yours after the attack.
Good attempt though at recreation- maybe keep it for use in something else too.

 

Lol It totally does go down! My brain's fried

Do you guys think maybe he is slowing it down? To me it sounds like that and slowing down would also lower the pitch maybe?

Also I switched it to a square wave synth, and it sounds much closer.

Thanks everybody.

 

That is why I said it could be a tapestop effect. It slows down and lowers pitch. Here is a tapestop effect I just done on a simple bass. Followed by the same note without it. This was done with grossbeat.
https://voca.ro/195yJqwwfm09

 

Yeah you are totally right! I couldn't check it out becaue I am using Logic Pro, I will find a similar plug in or something for mac.

Thank you Jim

 

Just did this real quick, so in logic you can use the fade tool and change it from volume to slow down to get this tape stop effect!

Thanks guys

I think the one in the recording the time stop is a little longer, and the bass more overdriven but close enough for now

 

Pitch-bend (down). Pitch envelope. Pick your weapon.
Your sample needs some more noise and saturation, and layering with a kick (adjust so that the bass transient ducks under the short and muffled kick).

 

What exactly does bass transient ducks under the kick mean?

Like sidechain the kick to the bass and make it not play then?

Sorry I am very new to this

 

Yes. Sorry. It means that you can
1) add some attack time (amplitude/volume. The "A" in ADSR) on the bass, so that it's not as loud as the kick when the kick is triggered (at the same time as the bass). That way they don't overlap/mask and fight for space in the frequency spectrum.
or
2) duck the bass (with the kick, or anything "percussive", on the side-chain input on the compressor) so that the bass ducks when the kick hits.
1 and 2 does the same thing, but differently (more/less control, etc). What suits best is up to you or anyone producing that sound.

 

Could also be a glide effect shifting DOWN from one note to another.

 

808 glide really easy to do stick 808 in samples modulate pitch