Hard disagree with #18. If you don't pull your bass register into mono (or really close to it) it's going to sound like ass in small spaces, like a car, or big

Hard disagree with #18. If you don't pull your bass register into mono (or really close to it) it's going to sound like ass in small spaces, like a car, or big spaces, like a club or big stage. I struggled for quite a while with getting bass to sound right on different systems and pushing the bass into mono helped a ton. Also consider the length of the waves. If you're playing on a system in a club that has the subs 50 feet apart, you're going to get weird nodes from comb filtering and the bass will just disappear in certain places in the room. I'm not aware of stereo bass having anything to do with vinyl, the issue is overall bass volume. Most of the other ideas are pretty good and can be summed up as follows: Humanize/randomize pitch, velocity, and rhythm Use distortion to add extra harmonics Don't use a flute patch 2 octaves below C or a contrabass patch 4 octaves above C, respect the "true" frequency range of the patch Use appropriate panning Use reverb (Actually I disagree with the idea of using many different reverbs. Your ears will pick up on it and it will sound unnatural. IF you do this, turn up the reverb until you can hear it, and then dial it all the way back until it seems to disappear.)