Show me your A4 sub bass!

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#1

Hello Elektronauts! I’m unable to get my hands on A4 for testing so I rely on mostly Youtube demos of gear to wrap my head around how they sound and work.

I can’t find any demos of the A4 featuring clear and clean sub bass. A similar topic on this forum recommended the use of the second filter resonance with keytracking to boost the low end.

Is it possible just to use the triangle wave in a low octave get a quick and easy sub bass?

If you are able to, please share with me examples of your A4’s deep bass capabilities!

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#2

tri wave, bit of lowpass, bit of positive overdrive (mkii) to squash it a bit more, and yeah, deep basses to be had.

Not purely sub-bass, but this is my favorite bass drum I’ve ever made:

though I find that the hints of complexity in the mids are what really make bass interesting

wait for it

absolutely you can get deep on the a4

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#3

another sub-bass pro tip: tune a pitch-synced LFO to an octave below the oscillators. Then add some light modulation to anything really—osc level, filter cutoff, overdrive. Great sub-oscillator boom, better than the real sub-oscillator because a full-volume square wave eats up headroom and depth right away.

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#4

Wow man great demos! I really like your style, I’ll follow you on Instagram :slight_smile:
Can definitely hear the sub bass coming through.

Can anyone else share a demo of the A4’s bass? Perhaps just a solo recording of a low A4 triangle wave?

Thanks again!

#5

Loopop demonstrates this around 8 mins in:

Not a pure sub bass example tho. It seems odd that there’s not a sine wave included too. That alone would kick out sub bass for days!

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#7

You can use CV A track, with Sine LFO on the parameter, and reintroduce it in Input A :slight_smile:
Other trick is to use the track resonance.

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#8

Dang these are great! Thanks for inspiration!

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#9

Using neighbour track input got me some pretty interesting low end.

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#10

@Mods We need a sticky for this thread. Great Tips Here!

#11

Nice tips here

Just spent the better part of the afternoon trying to get a sub bass that was to my liking.

Triangle OSC1 with 1 octave sub works great for me, square a bit too aggressive.

I could not get it to sound fat with the combo of LP and HP with low frequency and high resonance at first, as only the lowest notes got fat but then thinning out as you move up the scale.

Found that the peak filter works wonders with high resonance, giving both low end girth and low mid roundness for octaves up.

A neat little trick I found is to add noise on OSC 1, with a very dark timbre, and add a generous volume turn, it gives the sub some grit and thickness.

My buddy has an SH2, which I had the pleasure to mix on several albums, I think it is the fattest sub sound I have yet heard.

AK/A4 is not as fat, but with the dark noise, some distortion, and outside the synth a dark tube preamplifier (Mercury M72s) adds compression, harmonics and extra saturation which is fat enough for my needs right now

Best

Nico

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