mentalextra Posted June 21, 2011 Share Posted June 21, 2011 Can anyone identify what effect is used on the bass guitar. It is very distinctive and found on lots of reggae tracks. You might need some speakers with a decent bottom end! lol Cheers [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0H5BsbxyO8"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0H5BsbxyO8[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monckyman Posted June 21, 2011 Share Posted June 21, 2011 (edited) Actually, that doesn`t sound like a Bass to me. More like a monosynth like a Roland SH101.It had two oscillators so you tune one up to the octave. The actual signal sounds like it has a very close delay on it, almost what used to be called ADT, automatic double tracking. As it can only play one note at a time it suits the Dub style because the faster the riff the more staccato it gets as it cuts out the previous note, yet the longer notes have a nice decay set by the envelope section. Have a listen to it on this track and you can hear one oscillator slightly out of tune to make it sound fatter. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtPBN_3JPvg&feature=related"]Freddie Mcgregor[/url] MM Edited June 21, 2011 by Monckyman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
civictiger Posted June 21, 2011 Share Posted June 21, 2011 Moncy is right, that is definitely a synth. I had a bit of trouble on this, cause you can usually tell synths like that cus of the 'attack' on the notes, but this sounds like there is another guitar playing very similar to the bass turned down very low, which makes that 'clipping' noise. But simple characteristics in the sound give it a way, for example the little scale down at 3:09. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mentalextra Posted July 1, 2011 Author Share Posted July 1, 2011 [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r83vDshp_v0"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r83vDshp_v0[/url] What about this? keyboard or guitar? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thisnameistaken Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 (edited) Both are synths. The first one you could use a bass guitar, palm muting (or foam under the strings at the bridge) and a good low-pass filter to achieve pretty much the same sound. The second is synthier-sounding, so you'd be better off with an analogue octaver, but then you wouldn't be able to do the fast decay using palm muting or using a foam mute because your octaver would glitch. So to do that you'd need some ADSR amplitude envelope downstream of your octaver. My Octavius Squeezer can do it, if you've got an EHX BMS you could get a similar effect using just the Guitar voice, and its low-pass filter with the resonance turned off, stop frequency off, and the right Rate setting. No doubt there are other ways to hack it. For the basics of these old dancehall type sounds all you really need is an octaver and a feature-packed low-pass filter. But your typical envelope-following filter pedal isn't going to do the job. Edited July 1, 2011 by thisnameistaken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mentalextra Posted July 1, 2011 Author Share Posted July 1, 2011 OK, thanks for the info. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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