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Bass guitar and bass synth mixing?

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darkstorm

Oct 13, 2009
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#1
How many of you do music that has heavy bass synth stuff. Wether bass grooves/looped phrases/arps or left handed bass lines. Or heavy bass pads, soundbeds & fx. Or mix of these. Plus some bass guitar in the mix to? Myself I see no reason the two bass machines cant work together as a nice team kinda like how drummers in 3-4 drummer ensembles mix it up together to great effect. Of course it can be difficult at times to find bass guitar voices that work well in the mix when theres lots of bass synth voices going to. But its worth it to find the sounds that work well in the mix to me. I have no interest in bass guitar versus synth. Interest is in bass guitar and bass synths bringing a very nice barrage of intricate and attention grabbing bass machine goodness. A tight articulate modern bass guitar voice works best for me. With overdrive, some ring mod and occassional echoes as the processing for ready for recording tone. Though dubstep players might sometimes prefer a more mellow thuddy bass voice. Lol.

So who else likes what bass guitar player can add to psytrance, breakbeats, dark ambient, drum n bass, and such musics allready synth bass heavy sound?
 
#2
I play bass guitar for some electronic music (danceable dark electropop/new wave sorts of stuff) that features bass synth... I let the synths handle most of the actual rhythm bass line, and I play mostly melodic lead bass stuff higher up on the neck, through my Clone Theory chorus pedal. It's really fun!
 
#5
midbass said:
A lot of the synth/electric doubling in pop/funk/r&B is the synth driving the bass line with the electric bass providing the slap and pop effect.

It's a nice mixture for sure.
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Yup. I especially notice how properly voiced bass, lol, sure a bit with the treble edgyness, and grindy crunchy tone. Sounds real good in dub techno and psytrance. At times the bass synths make the bass guitar sound more powerful and sometimes the bass adds a bit of articulate grit or something that makes the bass and synths sound more powerful. In some bass synth soundbed stuff thats kinda dark ambient, it gives bass guitar a bit more of a driven earthquake sound. So yeah, I can see bass providing the slap and pop effect quite well in your example for more mainstream music nowadays.
 
#6
I love DnB and I used to go to a lot of raves where mostly neuro-funk was played, but for home listening I prefer older 90s stuff a lot of which was mentioned in this thread like Roni Size, Adam F, Squarepusher, LTJ Budem etc. or more modern liquid-funk like Hybrid Minds. I've also seen a few live shows of big name DJs with bands such as Netsky, High Contrast or Wilkinson, but the best one was hands down London Elektricity Big Band, where he was himself playing bass guitar and directing the band.

 

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