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November 28, 2010 at 3:02 am #81039Chainsaw20x6Participant
I’m a bass guitarist, and I want a way to play dubstep live. So does anyone know of any combonation of effects I could use to get a wobble bass out of real bass and effect pedals?
November 28, 2010 at 11:46 am #112779Stoney LonesomeMembertry the bass synth by boss.. SYB-5 i think is the name of the model, for the chancge in the wobbles tempo (which if i remember dubstep happens alot) can be achieved with the expression pedal… check our the youtube demo and i think that you’ll be covered
i hope this helped
November 28, 2010 at 2:50 pm #112780Chainsaw20x6ParticipantQuote:try the bass synth by boss.. SYB-5 i think is the name of the model, for the chancge in the wobbles tempo (which if i remember dubstep happens alot) can be achieved with the expression pedal… check our the youtube demo and i think that you’ll be coveredi hope this helped
Actually one thing I know from songs I’ve computer written is the wobble speed with the same parameters will actually be different depending on what note its playing.
November 28, 2010 at 4:15 pm #112781julianModeratorI didn’t know the SYB-5 can do that.
November 28, 2010 at 5:50 pm #112782Stoney LonesomeMemberhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMbP3Yr2nmk
when i recommended this pedal i was thinking of this video at 1.10… about the wobble i dont know for sure it can be done, but from seeing this video again i dont see the EXP jack occupied… so i may be wrong in any case buy before you buy because the sound that you are looking is kinda special to be played live instead for programmed in a computer… again i am no expert in these genres so.. dont take anything i say too seriously
enjoy the search
November 30, 2010 at 1:51 pm #112829bengreenmusicParticipantWhenever I’ve made dubstep style modulating synths on computers, the cutoff has almost always been the thing modulated to provide the changing sound, but as guitarists and bassists we don’t really have that feature as we make our sounds in a different method.
I’ve thought about it though and I reckon that the best method would be probably to link up a few pedals together, maybe a fuzz for some grit and some kind of phaser/flanger? something that would modulate the sound. As for changing rates, its kinda hard unless you find an expression pedal or have many of the same pedal.
Also the thing is that the sounds dubstep artists make are often made up of many different oscillators providing lots of different frequencies, thus making the massive sounds, it’d be kinda hard to accurately replicate that on guitar or bass without some very complicated equipment.
Try things out though, ask at a guitar shop or something, they might be able to help.
Hope that helped mate.
December 15, 2010 at 7:41 am #113083nneekolasParticipantBoss schmoss! You can get real close with the Electro Harmonix Bass Micro Synthesizer. Its a much more dynamic effect, so how you play will affect your “wobble” a lot more than the Boss SYB-5.
I set the Bass Micro Synthesizer to encourage it to behave more “glitchy” with tracking. When the sensitivity slider is all the way, you get more “glitchy” tracking. Every time you strike a string, it will re-trigger the filter section, re-starting it at a low-frequency and re-triggering the attack delay. Thus, when you play quickly, you create a “wobble.” It might be better to set your BMS similar to mine and then play around with it:
Code:Sensitivity: 10 (Most Sensitive)Sub-Octave: 10
Guitar: 2
Octave Up: 8
Square Wave: 2Attack Delay: 2 (Slightly Delayed Response)
Resonance: 10
Filter Start: 0
Filter Stop: 8
Filter Rate: 0 (Fastest)Listen to my clip where I demo this idea:
http://soundcloud.com/kyonshies/wobble-bass-with-bass-micro-synthesizer
At the start of this clip, I’m playing note combinations the BMS will not track well, thus, making it re-trigger itself in strange ways. I’m panning this back and forth with the 2880 during the mix down.
At the end of the clip, I turn off the effect and you can hear what I was playing without the effect. Playing those quick notes is what keeps re-triggering the filter for the wobble. Even though this is very determinate on how you play and how consistent you can be in your attack, this would sound great live with some practice.
December 16, 2010 at 2:18 pm #113125CryabetesParticipantQuote:Quote:try the bass synth by boss.. SYB-5 i think is the name of the model, for the chancge in the wobbles tempo (which if i remember dubstep happens alot) can be achieved with the expression pedal… check our the youtube demo and i think that you’ll be coveredi hope this helped
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December 17, 2010 at 2:51 am #113160SanquiFlerbMemberQuote:Quote:Quote:try the bass synth by boss.. SYB-5 i think is the name of the model, for the chancge in the wobbles tempo (which if i remember dubstep happens alot) can be achieved with the expression pedal… check our the youtube demo and i think that you’ll be coveredi hope this helped
I have explore the web-source that you have shared with all of us and i really liked it a lot.I want to thank you for sharing a nice points of dub-step wobble bass.
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December 27, 2010 at 4:27 am #113330efe_gallagherMemberI’m really close to get the Synth Sound I’ve been trying to achieve since I first started playing bass! Fuzzed bass sure sounds synth, but the best comes with modulation. I use a Stereo Pulsar for quick flashes of volume and add a Stereo Electric Mistress for space in a slow, lush swooshing. I prefer using my Little Big Muff with the Tone & Sustain all the way down because I think it sounds more synthetic than my Bass Big Muff (used for a more guitarresque distortion).
Also, I’m getting a Micro POG this New Year for the extra SubBass. I do believe this combination will get me the sound I have in my head. Another (much cheaper :doh:) way of getting a synth sound could be to get a Bass MicroSynth and add an extra modulation? I hope I don’t need an Envelope Filter since I don’t really like the Funky tones…PS: Sorry if I sound a little hyper on this, but I haven’t slept since Christmas morning :worried:
July 19, 2011 at 12:41 pm #114832LouisMemberYou might want to check out the Tube EQ as well. I’m not sure how it would work on bass, but it has a really awesome expression mode where it controls the frequency setting. I think it’s quite unique sounding.
August 15, 2011 at 11:42 am #115781EMarbreMemberThe best way to get a wobble bass is octave pedal (dry signal zero, 1 octave down maxed) -> fuzz -> lowpass filter with envelope function, John Davis from Nerve sounds incredible with his OC-2 -> Wooly Mammoth -> Moogerfooger MF-101.
I haven’t tried it yet but I guess EHX Q Balls should do the same thing as the Moogerfooger.
But I discovered another cool way with my guitar rig. Octave pedal->Octave fuzz->Wah->Ring Thing in factory patch 7 (an octave tuned down).
With bass there’s no need for an octave pedal in front. Regular fuzz is fine too but octave fuzz works better. You have to do the wobbling with the wah.
It works because the Ring Thing acts sort of an lowpass filter with the Wah which brings in the higher frequencies by pressing down to get the whole filter wobble thing going on.
Instead of Ring Thing some sort of an pitch shifter which does a natural (not synthetic like Boss octave pedal) sounding octave pitch down and is tracking well should work too. Some sort of EQ pedal would be helpful too as the Ring Thing makes the sound darker when you tune the pitch down with it.August 20, 2011 at 10:03 am #115745briansmith12ParticipantThe wobble bass, used frequently in the Dubstep genre, is a sound that well, wobbles! It consists of a low pass filter with a LFO assigned to the cut off. That may sound extremely complicated, but in actual fact it’s quite easy to do and master.
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