Alphaville - Big in Japan Bass Sound

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Alphaville - Big in Japan Bass Sound

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Which one of you can create the distinctive bass sound of Big in Japan? I just can't do it and I'm on the verge of despair.
This is my attempt at one version
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Re: Alphaville - Big in Japan Bass Sound

Post by FZiegler »

Hi, maybe you are reading the forum through a translation software like Google Translate. If ever you post your own contribution, you would need to translate it into English by yourself (translate.google.com or deepl.com)! It isn't done automatically.

And maybe you'd have a link to exactly that version of the song you are looking for.
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Which one of you can create the distinctive bass sound of Big in Japan? I just can't do it and I'm on the verge of despair.

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it sounds like a square wave with a sub octave square wave - the filter envelope is subtle and not much resonance.
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Mr. Marko wrote:it sounds like a square wave with a sub octave square wave - the filter envelope is subtle and not much resonance.
I rather think the OSC are tuned against each other with a fifth.
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