How do you sample bass?

Hello,

I'm a bit curious about how you sample basslines? What EQ do you use? Is a DJ mixer's EQ enough, or can you recommend a cheap EQ that works well?

Bass as part of a musical recording eg from vinyl/ tape? Or isolated bass directly from a synth or bass guitar?

I usually sample everything from musical recordings quite neutral EQ-wise. I sometimes boost some lower frequencies when I am a 100% sure I am going to use the bass that is part of the sample. I record/ sample myself playing bass guitar DI into my Model12.

I'm a bit curious about how you sample basslines?
It's a sampler... and you'll probably hear that a lot... so sample. The problem is more with this being a broad open ended question. Are you working with a solo bass recording, or an instrument you want to record? Is this mixed up in a song and you want to know how to extract it? Assuming you want to extract it... there's a lot of old school techniques to do this including filtering, band pass shenanigans, center cancelation, etc... or modern solutions like stem separation.

If you can add more details you'll probably get more specific answers.

Lampdog wrote:1. Sample whatever you want, eq/filter out highs, mids INSIDE THE MPC, this is non-destructive eq, easy to dial in eq/filter inside of mpc, over and over, redo eq, etc..

This.

Always sample as flat and clean as possible. Bass or whatever. You can add all sorts of FX and EQ later.

Here's what I do consistently on pretty much every beat I make on the MPC -

I have a full octave of mono sub bass from a Korg MS20 that I always have on pad bank 3, takes up 12 of the 16 pads - I use this all the time to flesh out the low end of a mix, & often conbine that with some of the main chops from any particular beat, reused on the remaining 4 pads of bank 3 & put through a low pass filter to get some low-to-mid frequencies fleshed out on top.

Other times I may have an actual real bass sample, either electric or upright, & may double that up with a LPF filter instead.

All depends on the beat & samples used really - but YMMV whether this is useful or not depending on what MPC you're using (I'm on the 1K) & what style of beats you make

For real! I was lucky enough to have a friend with one, got an octave of sub bass of it recorded. I have the vst version too which is pretty damn good!