how to get that hard hitting reggae(not dancehall) bass?

Norwigian wood riddim. AKA a darker shade of black riddim. Not sure who came up with it tho.

Norwigian wood riddim. AKA a darker shade of black riddim

Thanks for that. Found it on the site here:
http://www.jamrid.com/Darker.htm but it is only a short loop, without the chorus that makes its origin recognisable.

Pass The Tu-Sheng Peng Frankie paul, the track jamrid mentions is where I kno this riddim from. I know it's a greensleeves. Check some of those trojan joints for it. Dope track.

that murdaaa track is by junior gong ,, welcome to jam rack ,, big tune
i think the riddim is old they must have made it over or sampled it ,, that tune use to play on the jbc radio station way back in tha dayz when i was a lil boy

WELCOME TO JAM ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey Damian Marley re did it for his album!! Heavy TRAK!
and dut eeediat! Tony Yaka YaYo! did a trk on it too!!

Anyway, I let you into a secret into how to look for those basslines...
Or should I say CLUE!

The Great and Late .....--->>>> -Sir Coxone-

Listen to my new EP, there is a track on there called BRAP BRAP! that will give you an idea!

i've done a couple reggae style beats usually based off a sampled dub bassline. check the scientist, dude's sound is hot. In a lot of dub when they break into an open space sometimes it's almost nothing but bass, enough to grab a loop. From there the sky's the limit.

also check out uk garage ,

The riddim JrGong used is from Sly&Robbie, ginal track was "World a Music" from Ini Kamoze on Taxi label...
The riddim isn't sampled, the only thing they've sampled is the "out in the street...murda" from the ginal Kamoze.

Darker shade of black Riddim is from Volcano label, produced & arrenged by Henry (Junjo) Law, published by Sonic Music Ltd, down deh JA... and yes one of the first smash tune is FP's "Kushungpen". Later Jack Scorpio amongs other producers use it... Greensleeves ain't bout cutting riddim, it's a publishing cpny.

AFA as bass sounds, you'll neva found a reggaae bassplayer in a keyboard! neither a reggae bass sound.

Just to let you know what has been used in "early dancehall" (also called DIGITAL) productions...

First digital riddim that fire up the dance was the "Sleng Teng" during the mid '80s, produced by Prince Jammy's (basically a King Tubby's student) with a Casio CZ101. With this riddim Jammy's won a legendary clash vs Scientist (an other Tubby's student), since he's called King Jammy's.

At the same times producers like Kenneth Black used to use the Yamaha CS-01 for tracks like "Sweet for my sweet" from SupaCat (riddim's "Sweet Dub" by the Skengdon AllStars).
Producer W."Whitty" Henry used the TB303 & Sh101 for basslines. You can hear them synth on "No Boogarism" "Punany Full we Head" from ShabbaRanks, on "Make dem Come" from the late NittyGritty.

It was U.K producers like MadPro that introducing the Novation BassStation immediately followed by numerous U.K producers in the '90, in particular at Hi-Fashion Records & A-Class Studio witch both made golden years of artists like DaddyFreddy & AsherD, TenorFly and TopCat among others! Listen to some SAXON SOUND INTERNATIONAL .

During the same mid '90s, the BassStation sound landed to JA, over trax like "Murderer" from BujuB on "Far east" riddim by DonovanGermain on PenthouseRecords; "Cellular Phone" from BountyK on "Pilli Pilli" riddim by Jammy's (formally a Tubby's Riddim).

You can hear synth basslines on nearly all the mid '90s JA productions, take a look at riddims like "Head to Toes" (ginal cut), "Dr Paul" riddim, even the "Stallag 17" by MassivB in N.Y.

Also, the KorgM1 was a "big" used tool in JA, listen to the "Telephone Love" riddim and so...

Chill!

KiloWAX!! my gosh you brought me back in time with that post!!!
i grew up on all dem labels n sounds man!!!

Nice! if it remind you good times!
I'm basically a bass-player, i'm back in the West Indies since'91: working in studios as bassman you have to know your classics .

For those who seek for the electric reggaebass sound:
* what has been told bout the flat strings is OK
*tube pré
*EQ
...and...
*OCTAVER

i'm not able to say much

Chill!

a few 45 n dub plates...

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Damn Kilowax, that was a heavy post. Propper knowledge there.

tb-303 in reggae? That I gotta hear!

fareal man you know your stuff.. also about the korg m1 . almost every producer who had money jamaica had one ,, thats why i bought mine,, king jammings was using the mpc 2000 back in 1999 , dont know if they upgrade? its funny how those guys got those sweet sounds back in the days ..
even now those old sounds sound alot better than some of what we using now

Hi elma! Man nice?
I was chest round for a minute!

Yeah! TB303 in reggae, cuz of the resonnant filter oftenly increased, also the way you play dem basses are like percs! "Head to Toe" (ginal cut) is a perfect example.
During '96 '97 '98, DGermain (Penthouse/GermainMusic) released a buch of riddims with that kind of acid's basses style even though it wasn't str8 TB but more Novation or Jomox. Listen to "Love dem Bad" from RedRat & Buju. Producer DannyBrownie from MainStreetRecords also made years of tunes with RedRat/Goofy/LagyG using the same sound of bass.

If you can find the "Swing Easy" riddim & "Swing easy Remix cut" from Germain, you'ld hear what im talking bout.

Chill!