We’ve had synths and drum machines, so in issue 314 it was time to roughen up your low end with two packs of dirty bass samplesBack in issue 305 we made waves with a waveform theme for our free sample packs. Here are the Digital and Analogue packs from Groove Criminals

Tough Bassics

The first of our gritty bass collections was honed by Cyclick Samples. Here’s Robbie to tell us more about it…

“Roughness can also be expressed as a lack of smoothness, and the bass sounds created for this sample pack are proudly just this! Analogue amplification stages have been grossly overloaded and a variety of fuzzes and distortions employed to bring the grit, dirt and nastiness. To many ears this may be no bad thing; I loved every second of generating this sandpaper bass collection. Each of the five main bass setups has been used to create a set of loops across eight tempos and have been captured as a set of seven multisamples. The seventh multisample is a variant of the Teisco short scale bass and Mutron III. The latter’s setting were regularly switched between bassline takes and the two best were noted for multisample creation, a low-pass filter and a band-pass filter setting.”