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Original Message 1/6 13-Jan-07 @ 06:15 PM - Best Synth for bass

joegornall

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Hi, Im in the research stage of setting up a home studio aimed at producing mainly various kinds of house music, ranging from old skool to scouse, including electro type stuff, trance and techno.

At the moment Im thinking of getting an Access Virus KC Ti as master, which Im sure will be fine for all the mids and trancy type sounds but Im a little concerned about whats gonna be best for bass. In particular I wanna make sure I can create the bouncy, pumping and pounding type bass sounds you here in the aforementioned genres.

Im considering:

Minimoog Voyager 3, Nord G2 and Novation Supernova 2. Does anyone have any experience of these or do you know any others I should look at for bass in particular?

Any advice or help is greatly appreciated,

Regards, Joe

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Message 2/6 14-Jan-07 @ 03:47 PM - RE: Best Synth for bass

Maarten

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The Virus should be able to do the trick but if you're really picky you may want to look into a Pro-One by Sequential Circuits... or the less expensive SH-101

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Message 3/6 14-Jan-07 @ 11:07 PM - RE: Best Synth for bass

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some sorta cheap dig synth for those scouse basses perhaps? - there's so much talk about it, to me it sounds very digital like an old ensoniq or korg ddd1 drumbox bass sound, very hard and sometimes a glassy decay. you can get close to it with a freebie plugin like Neon

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Message 4/6 15-Jan-07 @ 09:23 PM - RE: Best Synth for bass

joegornall

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Thanks for your replies so far.

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k wrote:

some sorta cheap dig synth for those scouse basses perhaps? - theres so much talk about it.

Is a cheap dig synth a digital synth? (sorry not used to all the terms yet!) And is the talk about the scouse bass sound? Know any cheap dig synths that might do the trick? And whats the talk?

Thanks k for your other replies aswell.

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Message 5/6 22-Jan-07 @ 09:59 PM - RE: Best Synth for bass

casparproject

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Hey Joe,

I am not too familiar with scouse per se, but if you're looking for 'glassy' house bass sounds,
look for SH yamaha rackmount or tabletop units. The TG line were pretty cool. I'd say generally
stay away from keyboards though, and look for modules and tbltop units to control with your Ti.
No sense putting money into an old digi board you won't use right? I bought a TG-33 tabletop
synth (which had a neato joystick controller) for fifty bux back in the nineties. It's gotta be
cheaper now. You can also look into FM and Additive software synths, which are probably both
fully capable of reproducing any digi sounds you wish to recreate.

Peter

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Message 6/6 23-Jan-07 @ 07:22 PM - RE: Best Synth for bass

Musineer Productions

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Or you could plump for an ancient bass maker. I used an Ensoniq Mirage (8bit splendour) for ages as a base machine. Really podgy sound, gritty and full, yet precise enough to play more than a two or three noter riff (no blanket wall of bass - though it could do that as well). Mixing an organ with a cello seemed to do it, though you can blend in more to get that 'pumping' bass. Bit noisey though, you'd need gates.

These days I tend to use a VST that's close to what I want, then eq, process, etc till it's right.

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