{"id":1189,"date":"2021-07-27T10:29:14","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T10:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mixxed.com\/blog\/?p=1189"},"modified":"2022-09-22T11:58:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T11:58:20","slug":"sine-compression-bass-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/create.routenote.com\/blog\/sine-compression-bass-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Sine Compression Bass Tutorial: 7 Steps to Make Epic Basses!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is Sine Compression?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The concept is simple. <strong>You take a sine wave and compress the hell out of it.<\/strong> This way, you get your pure tone with some smashed-in harmonics to add some flavor to your track.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sounds fun, right? You can get some powerful bass sounds out of it. It&#8217;s a great method if you&#8217;re just starting out and want to learn how to make a neuro-styled bass. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The trick is to make the sine wave seem almost like a square wave. The reason we don&#8217;t use a square wave is that you&#8217;ll get a completely different sound and the tone won&#8217;t be right (well, give it a go and see if it works for you).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">7 Steps to Make Epic Basses!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mixxed.com\/blog\/how-to-make-a-reese-bass\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How to: Reese Bass Tutorial<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mixxed.com\/blog\/how-to-make-a-white-noise-bass\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How to: White Noise Bass<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How Does Sine Bass Compression Work?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In these next 7 steps, I&#8217;m going to tell you how to make awesome, grizzly, basses, like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Frequent - Grass Rat\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U5yCSkcScQY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In your VST of choice, take one <em>oscillator<\/em> and set the waveform to a <em>sine wave <\/em>(it&#8217;s probably listed as <em>Basic Shapes<\/em>) in mono rather than stereo. Create a MIDI pattern in the fourth octave (F or F Minor note is usally the best for basses) and bounce it into an audio file.<\/li><li>Assign it to a mixer channel, and add a soft clip compressor. You can leave the <em>attack<\/em> and <em>release<\/em> as default, but a quick attack and slow release may work better for you if you want maximum transients. Add <em>makeup<\/em> <em>gain<\/em> until the soft clipper starts doing its thing.<\/li><li>Next, add a high pass (HP) filter to the to the same mixer channel. You want to keep the <em>resonance <\/em>right down down to avoid unwanted tones, crank the <em>drive<\/em> right up and use an automation clip to create some movement. Bounce this down into a new audio file (<strong>we recommend turning the gain of each new audio down a notch<\/strong>)<br><br><strong>NOTE<\/strong>: By now your waveform should start to have some square like features.<\/li><li> Add another soft clip compressor (but the same one as you used last time) with the same setting, and add a new (but the same) filter to automate more movement<br><br><strong>NOTE<\/strong>: Make sure you automate a <strong>different <\/strong>pattern each time to give your bass even more movement<\/li><li>Next, add an overdrive distortion (preferbly in a stereo setting at around 150 Hz) to give the high end some more harmonics. Automate some movement for the frequency and then add another compressor. Now you should have a grizzly, untamed bass sound going. Between the distortion and compressor, add another filter and clean the muddy parts out. <strong>Feel free to play with the distorion settings until your heart&#8217;s content<\/strong>.<\/li><li>Continue to repeat these processes and refine the sound even more (and more, and more, and more).<\/li><li>You don&#8217;t need to, but add some EQ and your standard mix down processes to make the sound work more for you (or don&#8217;t).<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Now Go Make a Bass <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>There you go. You entered this article as a child. Now you&#8217;re an adult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are very excited to see what you can do with this resampling technique. Don&#8217;t forget that you can find complementary sounds on the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mixxed.com\/\">Mixxed<\/a><\/strong> site that are just as epic as the basses you are about to come up with! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/mixxed.com\/blog\/how-to-make-a-reese-bass\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Reese Bass Tutorial<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Sine Compression? The concept is simple. You take a sine wave and compress the hell out of it. This way, you get your pure tone with some smashed-in harmonics to add some flavor to your track. Sounds fun, right? You can get some powerful bass sounds out of it. It&#8217;s a great method if you&#8217;re just starting out and want to learn how to make a neuro-styled bass. The trick is to make the sine wave seem almost like a square wave. The reason we don&#8217;t use a square wave is that you&#8217;ll get a completely different sound&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1195,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,19,17,323],"tags":[325,326,261,324],"class_list":["post-1189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-music-creation-tools","category-music-sampling","category-tutorial","tag-7-steps-for-sine-bass-compression","tag-how-to-make-epic-basses","tag-mixxed-com","tag-sine-bass-comprssion"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sine Compression Bass Tutorial: 7 Steps to Make Epic Basses! - RouteNote Create Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We&#039;re taking you through 7 steps on how to make epic basses using sine bass compression.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/create.routenote.com\/blog\/sine-compression-bass-tutorial\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sine Compression Bass Tutorial: 7 Steps to Make Epic Basses! 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