Distortion and Resonance

[Flite]

Hey there,

people always say when you want a warm , liquidy bass you need to add distortion and resonance.
When i try to make my lead a bit warmer I fiddle around with the disto and reso but it kinda degrades my sound if you know what I mean..
Some say you need to add multiple small amounts of disto and reso. Wel do you guys know a VST that's really godd quality for stuff like this , cause I feel like my disto vst's are a bit too harsh :/

Thanks anyways,

have a nice day

 

[d-low]

sausage fattener,
PSP Vintage warmer
camelphat

 

[Flite]

Thanks man, you know tricks with camelphat?

 

[Elzerk]

Try automation on every knob, I love creating filtery effects with multiband distortion plugs.

 

[lasiien]

Try using more subtle effects also, especially for liquid, finding or making a really cool patch on your distortion plugin with the mix at 100% gives you an idea of what its going to do to you original signal, but then turn down the mix to a level where it's adding to the overall sound and giving it some grit without totally destroying things Subtlety is the key allot of the time imo.

 

[Rajstah Vibe]

Try using more subtle effects also, especially for liquid, finding or making a really cool patch on your distortion plugin with the mix at 100% gives you an idea of what its going to do to you original signal, but then turn down the mix to a level where it's adding to the overall sound and giving it some grit without totally destroying things Subtlety is the key allot of the time imo.

That's my way to do it too.
I create a parallel channel where I route as input the mid/high freqs, then add all the shit load of resonators, distorcion, chorus, phaser, eq, eq and eq!
In that way I keep the integrity of the transients of the original sound, but add subtle distorcion and fx.

 

[Flite]

Try using more subtle effects also, especially for liquid, finding or making a really cool patch on your distortion plugin with the mix at 100% gives you an idea of what its going to do to you original signal, but then turn down the mix to a level where it's adding to the overall sound and giving it some grit without totally destroying things Subtlety is the key allot of the time imo.

Thanks buddy, gonna try that!

That's my way to do it too.
I create a parallel channel where I route as input the mid/high freqs, then add all the shit load of resonators, distorcion, chorus, phaser, eq, eq and eq!
In that way I keep the integrity of the transients of the original sound, but add subtle distorcion and fx.

Really smart, gonna experiment a bit now, thanks!