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Not sure you would call many of those bass sounds a reese, although some def are.

Detuned saws, my man. That is the start.

For grins I made a fresh reese. This should knock your dick in the dirt at least a little.

Re-create this in Serum and then tweak to your heart’s content (be sure to click the image to get all the FX & whatnot…4 images in total):

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Pay attention to the curve in the bottom right, for the “note” property. This is what creates the movement at higher notes, and it’s a very sensitive parameter. The other key is the slight detuning in the “FIN” tuning for each oscillator. This is what gives the reese its primary character: two sawtooth oscillators fighting against each other ever so slightly.

Also note that no sub was needed to layer underneath. This patch hits 0dbfs for the fundamental sub freq, and is the start of a loud tune, if so desired.

Also, I made this one a bit neuro-y. I’m just not a liquid guy…neuro is in my DNA. Most of this is caused at the filter level, esp the level of resonance.

As Harry said with his patches (gonna knick those, BTW!), please ask any questions you may have.

Very useful:

https://www.pianoscales.org/minor.html

I know what you’re talking about, I think. I think it’s open in a tab at home. I’ll see if I can dig it up tonight

No, your kick does not need to be an E to be in key. It depends on what key you want to be in. Google and download some images that show notes in a scale. To be in key would be to select any notes within that scale. This is a very simple explanation, and there are other things to consider.

The most common key in drum and bass is F minor. The notes in it would be F,G,G#,A#,B,C,C#,& D#. The reason it’s most common is that F0 hits at a really nice spot on the sub, lots of energy, not much loss. Technically you could use any notes in that scale, but the foundation, likely the sub, should be an F0 note. F0 is probably too low for a dnb kick. And doubling it, to around 86hz, which is F1, might be too high for a kick (we’re talking subjective taste, here, not empirical “rules”), so you might set your kick to, say C2, a nice middle ground between the F’s, and still in Fm key. Then your snare, which often peeps want to feel a little elevated from the kick, ala low.high.low-high, where kick is “low” and the snare is tonally higher, that bit you might put at, say C#4, or maybe F4.

So you need to consider octaves, then tones within that octave. The part about being in key is making sure that notes not in your chosen key don’t sneak in. If you put an F# in an Fm key, it becomes something else, and has a chance of just sounding bad and out of key.

This is an extremely useful reference that many of us use:

http://pages.mtu.edu/~suits/notefreqs.html

Between that and having a chart of musical scales, you can find your way fairly objectively…but of course your ears are also a guide.

Have you watched Joe’s lesson from this month? Has exactly what you are looking for, it’s really good stuff.

Big big ups the Texas DnB Massiv!

I’m having a bit of a hard time sussing out the questions here. But I’ll try:

Boosting 2-3khz is ok to do, but it’s not going to give you strong leads or mid basses. Those are gnarly, PAINFUL freqs and should be boosted with caution. If you’re not sure what I mean, take serum (or any synth), make a sine tone that hits 2.5khz, and then try and boost it. You’ll be tapping out very quickly from the pain, they are super sensitive freqs for the human ear, as they hover around primary human voice frequencies (~1.5khz) and we humans are evolved to cue in on them. And sometimes they can be “drowned out” by having a lot of surrounding freqs be as loud or louder, but this is a mixing mistake, as the gnarly sounds are still there, and will eventually cause serious ear fatigue in your listener, and in you.

Does a filter change frequency too, or just the sound?
Filters can drastically change frequency response. An eq is just a series of filters. And if you’re talking about lpf or hpf, there is also the resonance consideration, which can actually boost frequencies at the crossover point.

If you’re looking to get deep sub, but also some midbass character sounds, check out the QZB lessons in the SG backlog. There are some others, too, but QZB did a really good job of explaining how to manage sub against low and mid bass frequencies.

Welcome lomadnb!