Bass Note
Bass Note Posted on: 21.07.2011 by Stephaine Hains This could be a dumb/noob question, but generally for deep/hard sub bass, what note is generally used in dirty dutch type music, like afrojack type sub bass in this song where it drops at 3:15: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfg8CMWeUAU Right now I'm using the F1 note and its working pretty well I believe, just want to make sure EDIT: Also, anyone have any tips on how to make the sub bass so audible even without big speakers? Other than compression Thanks for any help | |
| Stephaine Hains 21.07.2011 | This could be a dumb/noob question, but generally for deep/hard sub bass, what note is generally used in dirty dutch type music, like afrojack type sub bass in this song where it drops at 3:15: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfg8CMWeUAU Right now I'm using the F1 note and its working pretty well I believe, just want to make sure EDIT: Also, anyone have any tips on how to make the sub bass so audible even without big speakers? Other than compression Thanks for any help |
| Teresia Janusch 22.07.2011 | According to a few DnB producer friends of mind, they like to use G, as it apparently resonates quite nicely...but yeah, what they said ^^^ |
| Rosaline Youngling 22.07.2011 | It sounds like the bass at the drop you're referring to (3.15) is coming from the kick, he's just used a big boomy subby kick. But generally speaking there is no specific note you should use, judge it by how it sounds. You don't really want to be using a note that is out of key with your song. Obviously this doesn't apply all the time and you might specifically want to use different notes, but you should really be looking to use bass notes that are in the same key as the rest of the song. To get really subby bass it's less about the note and more about the waveform. Using a sine wave for sub bass is always a good start as this is a very pure, refined wave form and won't give you any overtones/harmonics in the mid/upper frequencies like a square or saw wave might (but again, sometimes you might want these harmonics to be present). In terms of getting bass sounds from smaller monitors, it all depends on their frequency response. Any form of audio monitoring, whether it be headphones or monitors, can only replicate sounds that are within its frequency response - so a cheap pair of speakers with a frequency response of something like 200Hz to 18kHz wouldn't be able to respond to really low sub bass frequencies. There are plugins you can get that will create overtones on a sub bass line and make it slightly more audible on speakers such as the ones in the example I just gave (google harmonising VSTs) but really the only way round it is to buy some decent monitors, it's a worthwhile investment if you want to get into music production and will pay off in the long run. |
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