Watermelon bass was a technique I learned through a lot of experimentation over the years. Once in the EMU we then added another layer of filtering driven by ENV’s LFO’s and the Modwheel and tried to accentuate the characteristics of the initial sample from the Pro-One.īasically the simple principles are that heavy distortion adds lots of upper harmonics to any simple bass sounds (like the way the old reece house bass turned into a hugely gnarly dnb bass through years of distorting and sampling and filtering by many different artists)
We would then sample into the EMU the best snips from the DAT…sometimes we just used one from the whole DAT recording, sometimes we used a 3 or 4 to piece a riff together. We used to set a DAT tape on record and then play simple notes from the Pro-One live whilst hand modulating the filter cutoff at the same time so we would end up with all kinds of filter and pitch moves on the tape….mostly too crazy to use but some small snips would be really cool or with great movement and shape and timing and pitch bending etc. It started as a pretty obvious distorted full frequency synth sound from the Pro-One with lots of harmonics and sounding like a fairly standard distorted bass sound.
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