Matron Landslide
A real bass is the only and best way really
BenMMusTech
This track, which I recorded and wrote in 4 days, although it took over a year to mix lol, should convince you great sounding bass is a achievable using my technique.
It does nothing of the sort, if anything it goes to prove the opposite imo
BenMMusTech
Not convinced? Here is another example
No, and I'm still not, far from it
BenMMusTech
I try not to be a show off these days...but when someone doesn't believe you...
umm, you mention showing off a few times in your post, I don't believe you understand the meaning or purpose of 'showing off', because nothing you posted there did it in any way shape or form, sorry.
After listening to the examples you gave (I listened as long as I could, enough to hear that the bass sound sucked and was in no way comparable to a real bass, I just couldn't bring myself to listen to either in full) I find myself wondering if you have in fact ever actually played or heard even a real bass, because those examples are far and away off the mark, and in no way convey the feel, or sound of a real bass played by a real person.
Sorry, that's just how it is from where I stand.
I try never to listen to people with joke avatars, and indeed joke monikers! Anything I say, I believe whoever you are, will be used against me...because I suspect you're nothing but a small minded troll.
My point stands...it is not the tools, but the tools who use the tools who either **** a song up or make it great. If we followed your belief, and we stuck with the 'rules' in regards to real bass vs experimenting when a real bass isn't at hand, something like using a speaker for a microphone...ala Paul McCartney would not have been used on Paperback Writer. A track that changed the way bass was viewed within popular music.
For what it is worth, I mixed and mastered both tracks a couple of weeks ago, and I was not only trying to implement a series of new plugins into my mix and master chain, indeed I had to learn how to use said plugins. For example, Wave's VComp...which if you don't understand how to use can lead to an overcooked mid-section. Mind you it sounds great when you first hit upon that sound, but in reality it is a **** to EQ in mastering :). I also probably rolled off too much bottom end with the low-cut filter...I've been working on some virtual orchestral mixes, and this coupled with the new plugs has meant I've had to go back over my EQ technique - both mix and master - and it was this experimentation which lead to the realization I'd probably been rolling off too much bottom end in mastering. It may be this you're hearing...joke avatar person! No matter though, because the track is pretty low-fi anyway. Each new composition leads to new discoveries. The tracks and by proxy the masters' I posted links to are limited by the source material. Also, it depends on what you listen to said tracks on...for me I use AKG k712s, where there is a well-defined bottom end...bass comes through peachy. I also have a fairly good blutooth speaker...Harmon Kardon, and at the right volume sound comes through peachy. Now if I listen to masters on phone, bass doesn't come through so peachy :)...but the mix is all there, and it sounds peachy. I don't expect 5 cent phone speakers to be able to reproduce frequencies below 100hz...aint going to happen. You have to make masters as flat as possible...so if you played said tracks on a decent stereo, the bass would thunder through. I know this would be the case, even though I probably rolled off too much botom end.
It is also a shame, that Soundcloud's encoding process probably dilutes the bass sound too. This is even after I upload the master wave file at 64bitFP :).
I use to have an Epiphone Hofner replica Beatle bass, best bass I'd ever played...particularly for a guitarist. But equipment comes and goes. If I waited until I could get another of these basses, or indeed only had one type of bass...I would be limited to a certain type of music. Again, if the last great era of western art music taught us anything, it is experimentation is the key!
Ben