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The use of a gate on a bass
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Conny
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Posted : Sep 30, 2004 11:03
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Hi i tried a gate yesterday on a bass and got some nice results this gate made the bassound shorter so it didn´t interfered
with the basedrum.
Does anyone else here use a gate on basses ? |
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Triptocoma
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Posted : Sep 30, 2004 12:14
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I´ve done it before and it can be real nice, it all depends on what you are after...
i think many people does it, i once i heard a dude say that using a gate on the baseline was his little secret.. 
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orik
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Posted : Sep 30, 2004 15:34
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i dont realy get it...if you put a gate
on the bass on a sequence you made,
with the exact lengths of all the bass
notes u want it play...why do you nead a gate?
a gate can separate between spill of a sound
you dont want to the sound you do want
(if thers 10 dB separation) so...how does
a gate help exactly here???? |
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Spindrift
Spindrift
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Posted : Sep 30, 2004 17:39
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I guess it would be possible using a gate to form the envelope slightly different than your regular ADSR allows.
And a synth might have a nice bass sound to it, but the envelopes lack punch. If you have a punchy gate you good then improve the attack as well as decay.
I'm to lazy for that stuff myself and want a bass synth with good envelopes to start with, maybe with a sidechain compressor to trim of notes overlapping the kick. |
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Triptocoma
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Posted : Sep 30, 2004 17:50
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orik, you can gate other things than the length of a note
for example you can gate the filter, the lfo, or anything you want....
you can rout the gate to many things...
i havent been working so much with gates so im not so good at it... but for sure a gate can be of good use for many things
it might be of no use to make the baseline shorter with a gate, those things you can do manually by just make the notes shorter.... but there are other parameters on the gate that can make the bass groove...
ill let someone who knows this tell the true story..
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Meta
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Posted : Sep 30, 2004 22:22
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I know a couple people that got bored with the VB1 and switched to the ES2 for their bassline, and they found it neccessary to use a gate in the fashion that Spindrift was talking about...
The synth made a great tone but ended up with a little bit of distorion at the end so they used a gate to clip it off.
Anyway, sounds like it works if you're interested but it's not a huge secret all the pros are constantly using....
 http://soundcloud.com/aeon604
http://www.metaekstasis.com/
http://the1134.com/ |
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