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Electronic Music Studios (EMS) VCS3, bass

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Contest: Electronic Music Studios (EMS) VCS3 played bass on Where's Your Head At by Basement Jaxx (2001)

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Settings

osc
2 saw + square, unison 2, detune 20 cents, sub square -1
filter
LP 24 dB/oct
cutoff
400 Hz
resonance
0.6, drive 0.5
envelope
A 1 ms D 70 ms S 0.5 R 100 ms; aggressive resonant snarl, gothic-industrial edge; filter env amount 0.5
modulation
mono
effects
bus compression, distortion, drive
notes
The menacing, growling bassline (built around the sampled Gary Numan 'M.E.' riff plus a driven analog synth layer) is heavily resonant and overdriven for maximum snarl.

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  • Seedsystem