Help Clearing Up My Bass Sound

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I have this track which features kind of a walking bassline made on a DSI Evolver (simple digital sine wave). The bass is playing very low, and i can't hear the notes clearly. I know my monitors are part of the problem (Event TR6), but i've listened to them play low basslines beautifully from CD's. The bass is compressed using a waves API comp and EQ'd, which made it a little better, but it still sounds muddy to me.

What can i do?

Thanks Guys.
 
flextone said:
Hi

I have this track which features kind of a walking bassline made on a DSI Evolver (simple digital sine wave). The bass is playing very low, and i can't hear the notes clearly. I know my monitors are part of the problem (Event TR6), but i've listened to them play low basslines beautifully from CD's. The bass is compressed using a waves API comp and EQ'd, which made it a little better, but it still sounds muddy to me.
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99% of it is going to be the sound your generating on the DSI. Are you truly using just a simple digital sine wave as you indicate or do you have a bit more sophisticated of a patch set up? A pure sine is going to sound pretty anemic.

I'd first off shape that sine with plenty of attack and a fairly gentle sustain/decay to try an emulate an actual bass string. Then add a second oscillator that is all attack and decay, just so it gives you a click or slightly better at the attack. Set that for 5-6 octaves up from osc1, to taste, and mix the amplitude in to taste.

Maybe - you'd have to experiment - modulate that envelope with some low amplitude noise or maybe triangle or sawtooth at 2k or so just to roughen the edges a bit.

G.
 
Naturally it's not just a pure sine wave,
there is an amp envelope with short decay, a small amount of pitch envelope to give the notes that little pinch in the attack stage and some fm here and there.
 
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