How to Create Reese Basses and Hoovers in Logic Pro

Love those hard, old skool style Reese basses that you hear in so many breakbeat and D&B tracks?

Davide Di Bucchianico has written a great tutorial on how to design both Reese basses and the classic hoover sound! While Davide uses Logic to walk you through creating these characteristic sounds, the techniques are applicable to virtually any synth and sampler.

This article guides you through creating the basic sound using saw waveforms, unison, and detune, along with envelopes. Finally, he shows you how to use filters to create a gritty back-to-the-90s Rave vibe for both basses and hoovers (think T99 ‘Anasthasia’ or Human Resource ‘Dominator’).

This article is an absolute gem for any producer looking to break free from using old hoover and bass samples and wanting to create their own synth presets from scratch – a fantastic way to make your own signature sound stand out from the crowd.

Logic users will appreciate these tips for utilizing Logic Pro’s powerful ES2 synthesizer, along with the trusty EXS24 MKII sampler. Although it hasn’t been updated since Logic 5 and lacks some of the advanced pitch stretching functions found in newer samplers like Native Instruments Kontakt, it remains a very capable sampler that many professionals still swear by.

Finally, Davide provides some tips on using various FX processors to polish your sound: we love this production tutorial! Great work and well worth a read!

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