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Lady Gaga Detuned/unisoned saw bass tips

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Summa

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Virus Model: Virus TI Series

Sequencer: Live

Operating System: Windows Vista

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Thursday, March 4th 2010, 1:56pm

If it's the humming type bass sound, I'd guess the sound is mainly based on hypersaw or unisono saw sent thru a resonant tuned (filter frequency is following the key frequency) Bandpassfilter to a waveshaper or distortion FX...

Andreasl84

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Thursday, March 4th 2010, 5:23pm

"Resonant tuned (filterfrequency is following the key frequency (are you talking about normal keytracking in the filter section??)
Damn you Virus Ti programming nerds, :D
Bandpassfilter to a waveshaper or distortion fx? Already tried all distortions, it doesn't improve the sound it makes it more "evil" and "dirty" sounding, not the desired effect.
Bandpass i played around little with it, but to me it sounds like its lowpassed with some kind of modulation to make the "hummy:ness", post a short clip of your "suggestions".

Summa

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Virus Model: Virus TI Series

Sequencer: Live

Operating System: Windows Vista

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Saturday, March 6th 2010, 3:37pm

I'm not virus programming nerd, I don't even like the synth but tend to use it as blueprint when recreating Virus sounds or Virus soundalikes for other synths...

Anyway it generaly works the way I described it, but you might have to improvise a bit when it comes to the virus. When distortion tends to create a bit too much dirt, you have to reduce the richness of the input or filter the output. Anyway, the bass sound seems to have a clearly noticable distortion/intermodulation signature, juding by the Youtube Version I found...

slightlyevolved

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Virus Model: Virus TI Series

Sequencer: Logic

Operating System: Mac OS 10.6

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Saturday, March 6th 2010, 7:38pm

we need more topics like this

Andreasl84

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Sunday, March 7th 2010, 12:12pm

Yes, discusing popular sounds.
I gave up, my attempt is not even near, i can recreate other stuff, but that bass sound, it's not even near, and i really don't understand what creates that "hummi:ness" the hypersaws is there, but that's not it. It doesnt sound like a complete bass sound, it's incomplete.
"That" is missing.
In a mix it sounds terrible and n00by, normal bass sounds are easy to make, but this one is another deal.

rhino791

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Virus Model: Virus TI Series

Sequencer: Cubase

Operating System: Windows XP

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Tuesday, March 9th 2010, 11:23am

Hi
I've not attempted to find this sound myself but what i would do is play the original track/bass sound through a Band pass filter. Try and single out the humming sound and see what freq its at. Then you'll know where to concetrate your efforts. it could also be layered by two different synths to give it that distinctive sound.

skychasernyc

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Thursday, March 11th 2010, 4:38pm

You may never get the sound perfect either. For all you know, they could have recorded the sound of a Ferrari engine and mixed it in. You should just try and make it sound as best you can.
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