

You should match the key that the rest of your song is written in. If you want to know more about making your own sounds, you can check out this video tutorial I made for Black Octopus Sound on creating 808 sub bass in Serum. For the most part you can create an 808 simply by loading up your favorite synth with a sine or triangle wave, creating a pitch sweep using an envelope and running it through whatever distortion plugin you favor (I like Ableton’s overdrive for this). How do you make an 808 sub bass?Ĩ08 samples are relatively easy to make, in fact you don’t even need a TR-808 to make the highly desired sound everyone in the industry wants. However, the heavy, distorted 808 sound we hear today was most famously heard in Kanye West’s hit song “Love Lockdown”. The TR-808 would go on to become one of the most iconic drum machines in the industry and was made popular by artists like Afrika Bambaataa and Marvin Gaye. The Roland TR-808 was invented by Ikutaro Kakehashi between 19. The kick drum in particular has a very distinct sound, and when you distort it with an overdrive or some sort of saturation plugin begins to sound like the modern gritty, thick sub bass hits you hear in modern hip-hop and trap records.

The 808 originally comes from Roland’s TR-808 drum machine.


