rumble warm and fuzzy. elusive!@

[ambi]

I can never get that nice rumble nice feeling from bass. That has that nice sort of vibrating sound. Sometimes you hear it in hip hop, or with a double bass if you have a subwoofer turned up a bit.

How would i get that? No matter how much i boost of anything on the waves q10 paragraphic eq i can never get that. Doing it to synth basslines or a recorded bass guitar i can't seem to get it. Is there a certain frequency i'm missing or a type of process to put it through? Maybe a differnet type of eq?

Anyone have any idea what i'm talking about?

 

[jake-owa]

You need a rumbly instrument to get that sound. You can't boost what is not there.

It starts with the drum/mic combo or MIDI instrument choice.
What are you recording?

 

[mixsit]

Yea.
That could be a component of the low end modulating. (as opposed to being a more simple steady state)
Could come from the mix of two or more instruments modulating each other, or the overtones in one.
-Mixed a bit of low five string bass in with the higher register bass part, got a nice 'chordal' effect.
-Pluck a bass gently anywhere near the 12th fret and get a nice round tone that no amount of eq can fix. Pluck it hard back by the bridge, and it's apt to bounce around in all sorts of ways.

I rember first hearing 'Dazed and Confused' by Led Zep. How the hell did they get the bass to sound like it has tremolo on it?
Wayne