This is a full step-by-step tutorial on making 808 sub-bass hit harder in FL studio a full step-by-step tutorial created by Producers-Buzz. (by Pav Beatz)
There are many ways to make the 808 sub-bass hit harder in FL studio, the first thing that you will need to do is add
1. Add Fruity Parametric EQ 2 to your 808 Sample (in the channel effect slot), set your 2nd band to be around 70 to 74Hz range @10%, then 3rd band on the EQ move it down to 246Hz at 10%, 4th Band move down to 632Hz at 10%, keep other bands as default.
This will give you 808 Sub or 808 Bass a bit of power kick and it will hit harder on the impact!
2. Clone your 808 Sub/Bass, so you will now have 2 of the same 808 sub-bass on your channel rack.
3. Then copy and paste the same pattern sequence down to your newly cloned 808 sub/bass (you should shave 2 of the same sequences, remember if you update 1 sequence always make sure to update the second sequence all the time.
4. We will now move the cloned 808 sub-bass down to the new effects channel, to do this, simply click on the 808 and drag up or down on the effect channel tab (located at the top right corner of the settings tab), this way we can split the audio left and right.
(The first sample will be located to channel effects 5 for example and 2nd sub will be located to channel effects 6)
5. We will now add a fruity soft clipper to channel effect 5. (Chanel Effects 6 should still be empty at this point)
6. Add fruity fast dist (distortion) to channel effect 5. now set your % on the mix knob down to 40%, You can play around with this figure, the more % you add the more distorted the sub/bass will sound. (change according to your preference, as all 808/trap beats, will use different amounts of % on the mix levels)
7. Now you will be able to save your mixer track state, right-click on channel mixer 5, (we used mixer 5 as an example, this will be your main first channel mixer, which should have EQ2, fruity soft clipper, and fruity distortion on it, if not go back and look at tutorial again, you need to make sure you add all 3 to your main 808 subs/bass), then select “file” and “save mixer track state”. you will need to name your preset, name it something like “808 sub punch/kick” so you can easily identify this for any future use.
7. Now we will be selecting and importing the 2nd 808 bass channel effect which you should have as an empty mixer track state, we used channel 6 as an example, we will right-click on this empty channel mixer, then select “file” then click on “open mixer track state”, simply select the preset you have just saved earlier. You should see all the same effects loaded to your channel mixer.
8. Both Channel mixer states should now have the same effects added as shown below.
9. We will no separate both effects channels to pan the 808 sub-bass to the left and right at 70%, just as shown below. Simply click inside the volume panning area and separate 70% to the left on channel 5 and 70% to the right on channel 6.
(If you have used different effect channel numbers, then apply accordingly). You should now see your 808 subs have more power and more punch.
You can now play around with the amounts of fruity distortion to meet your 808 bass output requirements, also don’t forget to move the volume/velocity up/down to meet your desired output 808 sub-bass gain.
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