i been tryin to figure out how to do this for a while, i saw a couple videos on youtube but they didnt make sense and their wobbles wernt very good.


anyone know how to make a bass wobble??


heres how i made one,

1. make a low tone with subsonic.

2. run subsonic over it at a diferent pitch but mix it with the orginal tone, see you get diferent wobbles,

3. resamble your bass wobble, and for the super wobble at the end of the bar at some distortion and chorus,

The key is to use a synth with an lfo. Set the lfo to modulate the cutoff of the filter. You can change the rate of the lfo to make it faster or slower or sync it to the tempo depending on what kind of synth you use.

yea i was finding it kind of hard to modulate a filter on a low sine wave, then noticed if you mix 2 sine waves it makes bass wobbles .

im not shure lf these are bass wobbles im just messin around

If it wobbles, it's a wobble.

Mixing two sine waves is pretty much what an LFO on a synth does anyway. Works like this on a traditional synth: an audible wave is "modulated" (essentially mixed) with a Low Frequency wave, which is a sub-audible/very slow wave. It's really just like automating a change over time, but using a wave to effect the change rather than recorded values.

On most synths you can select what the LFO modulates/changes. Usually its the filter cutoff, so a cheap and janky way to get a wobbler on an SP would be to take your wave sample and manually tweak the cutoff up and down rapidly then resample. If you can get a good couple of cycles and loop it then there's your bass.

Edit:
More like this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_(acoustics)

n acoustics, a beat is an interference between two sounds of slightly different frequencies, perceived as periodic variations in volume whose rate is the difference between the two frequencies.
With tuning instruments that can produce sustained tones, beats can readily be recognized. Tuning two tones to a unison will present a peculiar effect: when the two tones are close in pitch but not yet identical, the difference in frequency generates the beating. The volume varies like in a tremolo as the sounds alternately interfere constructively and destructively.

Also Peep http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binaural_beats

Binaural beats or binaural tones are auditory processing artifacts, or apparent sounds, the perception of which arises in the brain for specific physical stimuli. This effect was discovered in 1839 by Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, and earned greater public awareness in the late 20th century based on claims that binaural beats could help induce relaxation, creativity and other desirable mental states.[citation needed]
The brain produces a phenomenon resulting in low-frequency pulsations in the loudness and sound localization of a perceived sound when two tones at slightly different frequencies are presented separately, one to each of a subject's ears, using stereo headphones. A beating tone will be perceived, as if the two tones mixed naturally, out of the brain. The frequency of the tones must be below about 1,000 to 1,500 hertz for the beating to be heard. The difference between the two frequencies must be small (below about 30 Hz) for the effect to occur; otherwise, the two tones will be heard separately and no beat will be perceived.
Binaural beats are of interest to neurophysiologists investigating the sense of hearing. Second, binaural beats reportedly influence the brain in more subtle ways through the entrainment of brainwaves[1][2] and can be used to reduce anxiety[3] and provide other health benefits such as control over pain.[4] When the two tones gradually approach unison, the beating slows down and disappears, giving way to full-bodied unison resonance.

so bass wobbles cause beating to the brain ?

i say just make some wobbles in FL Studio or Reason and sample them into your SP then go to work and glitch and mangle all u want!!!!!

Wah-Wah effect is the weapon of choice! It's exactly what you want for wobbles - resonant lowpass filter with an LFO on the cutoff. On the SX at least, the Wah sounds much better than the actual Filter+Drive anyways! And don't forget to give it back the subbass it loses through Distortion!

Subsonic -> Distortion -> Wah -> etc

auto filter in garageband or time stretch in the sp

How are you getting wobble out of time stretch?

maybe not technically a traditional wobble, but when you slow bass lines down with the time stretch, they sound like they are wobbling. i always assumed that's how madlib got that sound on several madvillain songs and other beats from that '03-'05 time period

think i sorta figured it out

Sounds pretty sick, what method did you wind up with?

i sampled tones and then put a lfo modulation filter plugin for adobe , then sampled them again and added distortion and stuff, its cool to sample a bass wobble and then pitch it old school to speed it up and slow it down, i think thats the sound i was going for. i notice with raw waves like square or triangle or whatever that a filter lfo modulation works good, and with a sine wave a volume modulation with sharp on offs works good too.

thanks dudes, im almost a bass wobble champion.

heres lfo chop plugin http://www.brothersoft.com/lfo-chopper- ... 33227.html

http://e-cat.nm.ru/sinegen/ < -- totally wicked awesome program to make bass wobbles