Medway already suggested some tips how to gel better bassline with kick

Now i would love to hear more tips from you how you process baslines to make it more unique,interesting etc.

Especially,it came to my mind to use some short reverb.

Would it cause problems ?A lot of people totally disadvice using reverb on such stuff,as it should be mono etc ,easier to handle.

But i also heard in a lot of tracks that actually reverb was applied,and i know that those tracks do work in club

holla

http://www.apple.com/logicstudio/logicpro/

Kind of cool but also a bit cheesy, Herbie, Dolby, Wonder, and Jones all playing synths together. Well Dolby 'playing' a 606 ;-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZEGHnAxEpo

can anyone recommend something new? I am not totally up to date with these


and i like to have some material to work on,because i love to chop samples,glitch them etc (i wouldnt be able to use original loop because immediately i get a feeling that it is not mine track and erase whole project)



by best i mean your personal recommendations,inspirations etc,where you like to dig in order to find something usefull

When I pan with my DAW, I notice it doesn't pan completely. For example, say it's 30% right. The main focus (or center?) would be about 30% to the right, but it will sorta 'bleed off' beyond that, a little more into the right channel, and a bit into the left channel. From what I see in other DAWS and mixers (studio and dj) this seems to be the norm.

So I'm just wondering, how do the panning "laws" work in DAWS/Mixers?

Recently I've been listening more to some classic rock and various other types of band stuff. When I listen to how they pan something, sometimes they'll completely pay off to one side; not 100% but like halfway (or so it sounds) but there isn't any 'bleeding' into the other channel. So I've been wondering if doing that with dance music would be useful or not? Like, Waves has a plugin that can pan it off to one channel, anywhere in that channel, but only keep it on that side with no bleeding to the other channel. I'm sure there's many others like that.

Seems to me that's how most DAWS should be, or should they?

Thanks for your input.

Just an idea for ya Medway. Not necessarily for a thread, but maybe as a separate page for your website.

Every now and then you give some good advice on a particular plugin. Like recently, you mentioned if you have a copy of Voxengo's Pristine Place and Acousticas 480L library, then that's all you'd really need for a Reverb.

I thought it would be cool if you came up with a special section with your recommendations of the best plugins to use. (hardware as well) Not something super deep in scope, but like, your more common ones. (reverb, chorus, delay, flanger, distortion, phaser, all-in-one fx unit, master compressor, etc....) Granted, everyone has their favorites and some depend on the kind of music/sound you're trying to create, but in general as a starting point, it would be great to have a more or less comprehensive list to look at. And to make it useful to everyone, perhaps have it according to price. (Expensive price, moderate price, free)

With all the plugins out there, it gets daunting sometimes which ones to try out, no less buy. For example, I'd never thought about using Voxengo's Pristine Space until just now. Would have loved to know about it long ago.

Would hope to see something like this. I'd be more than happy to give my contribution of the ones i like.

Glenn

interesting to hear from a purer engineer type:

http://www.beatportal.com/feed/item/char...as-shadow/

I understand that creating music is difficult to discuss as emotion and feeling are its main impetus, but after 8 plus years of making music I not only have found myself at a sort of plateau but also have some paranoid questions ringing through my head that are quite distracting.

Hopefully there is someone out there that can help set my mind at rest so I can get on and make some tunes:

• I use Ableton Live, does its sound quality qualify its use from creation to the mixing stage (pre mastering). Or should it be piped through something like pro tools or cubase.

• I have some very high end plug-ins like the Sonnox, Waves, T-Racks and Voxengo plugs. Should I hold off on the use of these until I have my track created and turned into stems for the mixing stage, and if so, is it ok to use the more CPU friendly Ableton “Effects” (compressor, eq, reverb) whilst shaping my sounds. This is a difficult question to ask so hopefully it makes sense.

• I’m using Operator more and more lately for drum sounds and bass sounds due to its simplicity. It has really elevated the concept of synthesis for me and now all the controls/knobs on my 3rd party synths make WAY more sense, if not complete sense. I really enjoy Tech sounds, the sort of bass that wouldn’t be out of place in a Digweed or Sasha DJ set. My other synth options are Absynth, FM8, Massive, Pro 53, Reaktor, Alchemy, Arturia Minimoog and Predator.

My question is, how does Operator compare to these, and which one should I focus my attention on (learn inside out) for high quality tech/minimal sounds. (I know this is another one of those hard to ask/hard to answer questions, but it def nags at me that I’m wasting time trying to get sounds out of something that’s not suitable for the job.)

That’s it, and I’m eternally grateful for any help as I find these sorts of thoughts counterproductive when I’m trying to be playful in the creative process.

Just been released recently, if I didn't just get their free M7 ones to test out I'd probably buy this one now but will be soon as these are all the verbs I use now:

http://www.acousticas.net/

If you get a copy of Voxengo Pristine Space and these you're pretty much set for reverbs. Or if you're using Logic with Space Designer now need for Pristine Space even.

As previously discussed been demoing the new singles versions of these and liking them overall. See now there is a group buy. Right now it's a 2-1 deal but if 200 more people join over the next 52 days then it will be 3-1, pretty nice deal:

http://www.ikmultimedia.com/Main.html?gr.../index.php