It seems to me that you are working from one axis only where the target has several-many things happening at once (very processed).
The first thing I note is that the target has a stereo chorus or similar which helps it to keep moving. This is more obvious in headphones. There is also a lot of compression and an Env shape that has decay whereas yours seems more on-off.
Very often the bassy vibe is made counterintuitively. You think to make it more deep you EQ as low as you can go. This is not practical seeing that takes a lot of energy (level) to even begin to work and most speaker systems just can't deliver that at all. The method is to boost on the overtones. This is why people keep saying to overdrive your basses as that creates stronger overtones which appear better on most speakers.
The other thing most (very oddly) avoid is that the 'smooth bass' trick is exactly that, a trick from understanding psychoacoustics - how the human brain processes sound. Odd how that subject is studiously ignored in places like this so ppl fail over and over. Anyway, you can't win boosting at 40-60hz but you can win easier boosting at 80-120Hz, or even at 16-240Hz. Every time you go higher, you have less energy cost. The reasoning is that the brain will hear the overtone and reason OMG that harmonic is huge, that means that I must be hearing the fundamental super effing found and it makes that in the brain for free! It makes it really clean as it is a fantasy as such. The listener feels a lovely smooth bass that appeals to them but it isn't entirely there. Try this with an EQ leak at the first harmonic (2x whatever the note fundamental) and then High Pass everything under. You still feel the sound as being warm and deep, esp elsewhere where your conscious mind forgot the game and can't do an A-B. This is also why many kik sounds click more than whump - or click to lead you to the whump.
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The first thing I note is that the target has a stereo chorus or similar which helps it to keep moving. This is more obvious in headphones. There is also a lot of compression and an Env shape that has decay whereas yours seems more on-off.
Very often the bassy vibe is made counterintuitively. You think to make it more deep you EQ as low as you can go. This is not practical seeing that takes a lot of energy (level) to even begin to work and most speaker systems just can't deliver that at all. The method is to boost on the overtones. This is why people keep saying to overdrive your basses as that creates stronger overtones which appear better on most speakers.
The other thing most (very oddly) avoid is that the 'smooth bass' trick is exactly that, a trick from understanding psychoacoustics - how the human brain processes sound. Odd how that subject is studiously ignored in places like this so ppl fail over and over. Anyway, you can't win boosting at 40-60hz but you can win easier boosting at 80-120Hz, or even at 16-240Hz. Every time you go higher, you have less energy cost. The reasoning is that the brain will hear the overtone and reason OMG that harmonic is huge, that means that I must be hearing the fundamental super effing found and it makes that in the brain for free! It makes it really clean as it is a fantasy as such. The listener feels a lovely smooth bass that appeals to them but it isn't entirely there. Try this with an EQ leak at the first harmonic (2x whatever the note fundamental) and then High Pass everything under. You still feel the sound as being warm and deep, esp elsewhere where your conscious mind forgot the game and can't do an A-B. This is also why many kik sounds click more than whump - or click to lead you to the whump.
Statistics: Posted by Benedict — Sun Feb 16, 2025 10:07 pm