Extract the bass

I thought about recreating the bass line but its not a very simple line and it looks pretty hard to do but if I don't have any other choice, its probably what I'm gonna do.
 
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I thought about recreating the bass line but its not a very simple line and it looks pretty hard to do but if I don't have any other choice, its probably what I'm gonna do.
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Theres a few thinga you can do you could invert the phase by playing 2 of the same tracks together then inverting the phase then use eq to try and pull out the bass line over the top of the other track. Phase inversion is used to pull out acapellas of tracks well its commonly used for that.

The other thing you can do is get a program that extracts midi notes from a score sheet so rip the part of the track that is the bassline out save it as a wav or whatever then import it into the song score program and convert to midi the for instance if your using fl studio like i do you click and drag the midi score file you saved into the piano roll then the notes will show in piano roll. Now all you gotta do is assign which vst you wanf to be responsible for your bass line sound.

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EQ isolate the bass? Probably more than once to get rid of the kick. And then compress the hell out of it. You could try multi-tracking the bass track in the end to get a fuller sound.

Hope to god there is a part in the track that you can sample the bass without too much other stuff. I have a funny feeling decent outboard gear would make this process sound so much better. Gating might work as well, creating a gate based on frequency of sound, it seems like you should gate before you EQ.
 
ld50 vs ssri said:
Theres a few things you can do you could invert the phase by playing 2 of the same tracks together then inverting the phase then use eq to try and pull out the bass line over the top of the other track. Phase inversion is used to pull out acapellas of tracks well its commonly used for that.
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Still have the kick though. Either way its never going to be completely great, there is still going to be artifacting and depending on the track bass can have a bit of mid in there. From my little understanding of mixing, you have the kick and the bass in different frequencies, but there is overlap. So when you isolate the kick, you are going to lose bits of the bass, maybe even a large part of sub-bass frequency. It really is going to be a big project to try and get something. You might have to EQ isolate various parts of the low end and work on them individually and then remix. My headphones drop out at about 40hz or so...so good luck trying to get that sub!

I've found with copying sounds, I tried copying a specific synth sound (Roland Gaia VS Univox mini korg from the seventies) and could get close, something similar to it, but you'll never get the exact sound. I learned a lot in the process though.
 
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Yeah for sure, if you like.
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I mean even after inverting the phase the kick is still going to be there. You're taking the original track and subtracting the mid and highs essentially. Inverting the phase only works to create acapellas because you have the dub/instrumental.
 
jpgrdnr said:
I mean even after inverting the phase the kick is still going to be there. You're taking the original track and subtracting the mid and highs essentially. Inverting the phase only works to create acapellas because you have the dub/instrumental.
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Thats when the midi scoring utility comes in handy, fuck inverting the phase unless your doing accapellas. Rip the kick and the bass to a midi score then delete the kick drum notes from the midi lines in your piano roll. easy as that.
 
Celemony Melodyne may do the trick.
What it should do (if you ask it nicely) is extract the rhythm section, the bass, the mid-end and the high end. It will then show these files in audio the same way as a regular DAW shows MIDI.
It's highly processor intensive, so no real-time options; and it doesn't come cheap.
The easier way would just to extract the Wav. Aiff. or MP3 file into any DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) that has midi.
Then if you have a keyboard just jam out the notes with you audio file on top, and a midi track below.
http://www.celemony.com/en/melodyne/what-is-melodyne
 
You can modify each note and thereby influence directly the intonation, phrasing and dynamics – and do this not only with vocals and monophonic instruments but with polyphonic instruments such as pianos and guitars as well
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Once this process is done you can extract the MIDI file from each layer and put it into the DAW of you choice.
 
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