Here's how I got the bass sound I wanted, from an Olivia Rodrigo song

[AnthonyCeseri]

Here's how I got the bass sound I wanted, from an Olivia Rodrigo song. It took me 6 pretty easy steps. This is for a new song I just started for a Taxi listing that's due on 07.12.25:

1. I used moises.ai to separate out the bass from her song so I could hear it isolated
2. Since it's a synth bass, I started with the Monark plugin (based on MiniMoog). Then I asked Grok what presets on that plugin would get me in the ballpark of her sound – and it even gave me knob tweaks to make!
3. I played her bass part on MIDI so I could compare my sound with hers
4. I EQ matched
5. I added saturation
6. Once I had the sound I wanted, I came up with my own bassline

If you think it would be helpful to see all that, here it is in a short video: https://www.instagram.com/p/DLam1kXCBMA/

[cosmicdolphin]

Yep that's how you do it

Except we had no AI stem splitters or Grok to suggest any settings before now...just did it by ear and experience, or sometimes a Google search would find some clues

Good use for AI though

[AnthonyCeseri]

Totally... the time saving aspect of it is nice. And the idea that it can help you along as you're getting the experience to do it the old fashioned way.