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How to make a bassline house drop with with 'Lost In Bassline'.
Wanna know about how to make a bassline house tune that rocks the dance floor? Well you’re not gonna get far without a sick drop, and thankfully in this bassline house tutorial we’ll show you how to make a bassline house drop using Lost In Bassline by Singomakers. This pack is available to buy on Loopmasters, and available for free in Loopcloud with a free 30-day trial!
To make a decent drop we need a chonky beat. SLB_125_Full_Drum_Loop_04 has a nice solid kick and some atmospheric noises without being too busy, so whack it onto an audio track. Next we need an open hat. Add a MIDI track with a sampler on it, and load SLB_Hat_14 into it. Play it on every other eighth note, setting the length of the notes so that they sit with the loop. [P1]
For a lead line, go for SLB_125_F_Synth_Loop_24 which straddles the interface between catchy and gangsta perfectly. Of course we need a bass line to go with our lead, and Lost In Bassline has a bass loop that fits perfectly, SLB_125_F_Bass_Loop_25. Add this onto another audio track. [P2]
The bass has some hi-end noise that’s cool when the bass plays on it’s own, but let’s put a low-pass filter on it with a frequency cutoff of about 1kHz to prevent it from interfering with the lead part. [P3]
We can add a touch more stereo to the lead but adding a delay with a sixteenth note sync and no feedback set to ping-pong mode. This makes the side signal a little too loud relative to the mid, so turn down the side level with your DAW’s utility effect. [P4]
Next we need a build-up to the drop. Grab SLB_125_E_Horn_Loop_01 and SLB_125_F_Vocal_Loop_04, putting them on audio tracks. The Horn Loop is in E rather than F like the other musical elements, so pitch-shift it up a semitone. [P5] We want these elements to fade out before the drop. The horn element has a natural tail on it that works fine, but the vocal will need to be faded manually. [P6]
Use SLB_Uplifter_03 for your riser sound, features a pleasant reverb tail that gives you a little touch of impact when the beat and bass drop. [P7]
Next add a little vocal snippet to herald the drop in the form of SLB_125_Dance_With_Me_Tonight. Repeat the last syllable of this so it fills the final two bars before the drop, then pitch bend the last one down an octave to create a turntable stop-style effect. [P8]
Load SLB_Clap_12 into another sampler and sequence it on swung 1/16th notes, using volume automation to bring up its volume from silence to 0dB before the drop. Pitch down the snare an octave before the drop for bonus aural interest. [P9]
For the final touch, let’s make a gunshot effect to play before the drop. Locate FW_WEAPON_HANDHELD_RELOADS_022 and FW_WEAPON_HANDHELD_RELOADS_025 from Future Weapons by Push Button Bang, and UGE_Gunshot_03 from Grime by Loopmasters on Loopcloud. Arrange these into your classic reload and gunshot hook, and you’re ready to go! [P10]
There you go, bangin’ bassline vibes with minimal effort. For more ideas on how to make house and much more besides, visit loopcloud.com.
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