oooookaaay!?!
How about...how do you get a good bass?
Widening the harmonic response by detuning and altering the octaves that 2 osc are outputting would be a great place to start
You guys are already talking about filters and we haven't even gotten past fm.
But yeah, widening the harmonic response, I don't see how you get that fat analog sound without it. Y'know, that sound pumping through subwoofer and you swear to god it is going to shake a building apart.
Let's worry about compression after we have that sound were looking for. And, let's compress so that the low end doesn't get all muddy. That is, muddy, as in the kick drum being swallowed whole by the amplification of a signal being sent through the lower end.
But, ummm, hmm, yeah, I can't stress enough the whole concept of widening the harmonic response.
Annnndd, I'm out.