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10 Tips For Synth Bass


In this video Anthony shares his top 10 Synth Bass tip for giving your synth bass lines personality.

Anthony’s musical touch as both composer and performer is connected with some of the most influential creative minds over the last 40 years. He’s composed and conducted original orchestral scores for over 80 feature films including Young Guns, Internal Affairs, The Man From Elysian Fields, 15 Minutes and Planes, Trains & Automobiles, been commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic for his symphonic work “In the Family Way”, written over one thousand TV commercials in a myriad of musical styles, co-founded Levels Audio Post (LA’s premiere post production facility) and performed and arranged on big-box-office films and influential hit records such as Michael Jackson’s Thriller.

His extensive work as a young arranger, orchestrator and performer for Quincy Jones, Jack Nitzsche, Lamont Dozier, Arthur Rubenstein and Giorgio Moroder was vital in launching his own career. His early years pioneering modular analog synthesizers along with his wide-ranging music scholarship positioned Anthony at the center of the music technology revolution. He attended the University of Southern California School of Music as a piano and composition major.

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00:00 – Intro
01:06 – TIP #1 Tune Your Oscillators
03:39 – TIP #2 Favor One Oscillator
07:46 – TIP #3 Use a Square Wave
14:02 – TIP #4 Add a Sine Wave
17:14 – TIP #5 Set Sustain & Release Time
20:57 – TIP #6 Adjust Keyboard Control Voltage to Filter
25:33 – TIP #7 Perform with Portamento, Vibrato & Filter Expression
28:02 – TIP #8 Play with Articulation, Phrasing and Trigger Modes
32:26 – TIP #9 Use Effects with Dry Signal
36:32 – TIP #10 Think Personality

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Originally posted by UConS8wqg9vGUkZ9wbWL1EfQ at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nELAOF1iI7Y

46 thoughts on “10 Tips For Synth Bass

  • i’ve been on a years long journey to understand synthesis and these videos are the perfect resource, the exact thing i was looking for at this point in my synth-ucation

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  • I've been messing with synths for 40 odd years and still have my juno 60 from 1983 (plus a wall of modular, etc)… this is a great channel ❤❤❤

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  • I'm looking up Wyoming tuning right after this video. Sounds sweet and didn't know piano players had different tunings.

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  • I like this channel because its geared towards professionals.Amateurs are fine but its frustrating when all the content available is only for hobbyists.

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  • I love how genuinely enthusiastic you are when describing this stuff. I would absolutely love to just come over and hang out with you man. But also, I've learned so much from this video; the information is so concise and accessible. Thank you so much!

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  • Dude SO distracting having words on the screen when you're talking at the beginning. We're not toddlers. We can understand spoken words.
    Just a FYI

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  • This is the first video I watched on the channel and I can't thank you enough for a rundown of these fundamentals (pun intended) 😉 BASIC stuff (yet advanced Understanding of neccessity) is what I miss on the Tube. Thanks a lot!

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  • This is the most wonderful side of the internet. People like Anthony who offer us their wisdom in such a human, sincere and clear way. Honestly, this is the best video I have ever seen on synthesis and not only for the technical aspect, but for highlighting being yourself and developing musical personality, something that is sadly often lost. Thank you very much for everything, Anthony. Yoy have all my respect and admiration

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  • Very well said. All these ideas support musical synthesizer programming and performance and can benefit anyone building a bass part. It is a pleasure to hear someone explaining his subject matter so thoughtfully, without rigidity on the details but with a fundamental sense of generosity.

    Thank you.

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  • 10:50 I don't know if this is a common experience, but I often hear bass sounds sharper than they really are, and here there was a pronounced effect: the pure square wave sounded about a tone higher in pitch to me. At first I wondered whether I was hearing an overtone, but when I calculated it I noticed that the 3rd harmonic is about a perfect fifth (ignoring octaves) and the 5th harmonic is about a major third, so this makes no sense. Something's going on with me, psycho-acoustically. Sometimes when a record opens with a bass line my brain will assume a key, and then when the rest of the instruments come in, I'll find that I was hearing it sharp, and now it sounds like everybody's playing flat. What's going on with this? I've never been able to find a good explanation.

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  • Tip #1 favor one oscillator
    Tip #2 use square wave and can also modulate a pulse wave with slow decay on envelope or slow lfo
    Tip #9 mix both wet and dry signal (maybe use wah pedal for bass but mix with dry signal for better bass)

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  • The amount of machinery around this dude is staggering by itself :O

    Plus good info…. WONDERFUL VIDEO!!!

    THANKS!!

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  • Anthony, I found out about you from watching my Dr. Mix videos. So glad. You give such GREAT info for all of us. thanks.

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  • Thank you for all of the amazing tips, videos, etc. Would LOVE to know how to program the famous Tom Bailey Thompson Twins synth bass sound! I know he used an Oberheim OBxA or OB8 and that the sound got so famous, it was "hired" for all kinds of other 80's songs for other artists!

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  • Great Video!!! Very nice tipps.
    To me tip 6 is key. Does anyone now how to apply this on the Bass Station II?
    With the overlays a workaround is possible but a little complicated to adjust afterwards.

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  • I really like the Synthesis Technology Ultra VCO for bass because it is very stable and doesn't really drift, so you can get them in tune with each other very well to produce interesting timbres.

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  • Wow! It's the second time I'm watching this video, and I still feel I'm learning a lot from it.
    Thank you! ❤

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  • Too Good! Thx mate!

    Anybody here can tell my brain, what tip #9 is. So he uses 2 tracks with the same sound, but puts on 1 track an insert effect – and then mixes track I (clean) and track II (with insert) together?

    thx

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  • i too have a cs30, i have used it since 1983 and you Anthony are the only synth master i take any tips from mainly because

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  • Your content is Da Bass. I am always excited after watching and try out the tips. Suddenly, 4-5 hours gone, or spend having so much synth fun. Literally tried it all on ms2000, model d, b2600, pro800.
    Thank You!

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