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[Contagious]

I know you guys have covered about every base (no pun intended) on this issue already, but my technique is quite simple and works quite well.

Get a regular organic-sounding bass sound, run it through a guitar amp (I know someone suggested this already, I have a crate too and it work well), with a reasonable amount of distortion.

Run that distorted bass sound (now with fizzy top-end) through a low-pass filter to take off most of the really high end stuff and add all the chorus you can get. This really widens the sound.

What I tend to do to put back some of the sub-bass is just duplicate the bassline with a plain sine-bass.

Just to add a little extra, you could link an LFO to the volume and/or pitch (just slightly), with the oscillations slowing down or speeding up as the note is held. This works really well on bass-dives where the other sounds drop out.

There's my 2 pence

[shivsajjan]

watch out 4 the speaker body...curved shape that vibrates......

well!! thats ur base.....

the more air it waves n surfs bigger the body or the bass...

so test n apply it on urself n get high on ur loop...

all with the vibrating thing over ur body n ears....

get better....

even meditation b4 sampling helps!!!!

Wow.

[breakbeatpimp]

I find a nice way to get some dirty bass noise is by using Modplug Tracker with the inbuilt VSTs (which can be downloaded for free).

If you take a simple waveshape, such as a sine or sawtooth and just play the sample thru a single channel on the tracker. You can assign the distortion VST to this channel and save it as a .wav file to your hard-disk. You can then drop this back into the tracker and assign whatever other effects you desire until you get that heavy, ballbreaking sound that you need. When its sufficiently filthy, you can save it back down to the hardisk as a wav or mp3.

Simple!