Iggy Azalea - Fancy ft. Charlie XCX | Bass Synth Patch Remake

Remaking the bass synth from the 2014 song "Fancy ft. Charlie XCX" by Iggy Azalea can be an exciting challenge for any synthesizer enthusiast. Here’s how you can create the "Fancy ft. Charlie XCX" bass patch and play this iconic sound on most hardware or software subtractive synthesizers (Serum, Vital, Pigments, Prophet, Korg, Moog, etc). We've included the preset download directly for your convenience, but we strongly recommend you use our programming tutorial to recreate it yourself.

Original Audio

The track opens with a prominent synth bass that plays from the first bar and anchors the groove throughout. The part is a sawtooth-based one-octave stack with heavy unison and wide stereo spread, producing a thick, buzzy low end. A fast low-pass filter envelope shapes the attack transient while multiband compression adds OOMPH. The bass uses Serum’s Dimension effect to create maximum width.

Our Remake of The Bass Synth sound

This audio clip is how close we've matched the original tone of the bass synth from the song "Fancy ft. Charlie XCX" by Iggy Azalea, giving you a reference point as you design your own synthesizer preset. Play it as often as you need to familiarize yourself with the nuances of the sound.

Synth Patch Programming Recipe

Getting Started

• Start by initializing your synthesizer to a plain saw with no filter, modulation or effects. For soft synths use the "init"/"default" preset or the the button to reset all parameters to their default factory values.
• No two synths are exactly alike, so treat the values below as approximate, and use your ear.
• Percentage values (e.g. 50%) represent the relative position of a knob or slider within its full range. The full range of each parameter may differ from synth to synth, so use your ear.

Note: the patch settings may slightly differ in the Syntorial challenge.

Explore More

• Fancy (Iggy Azalea song) – Wikipedia
• Iggy Azalea’s ‘Fancy’: 10 Key Ingredients To a No. 1 Summer Smash – Billboard
• Iggy Azalea – Fancy Lyrics (credits) – Genius
• “Fancy” (Iggly Azalea) Bass Pluck? – KVR Audio forum thread
• I need that bass sound from Iggy Azalea’s song ‘Fancy’ – Equipboard forum

Preset Downloads

Don't want to learn synth programming now? Use our synth preset as your starting point and tweak it from there. Register an account with Audible Genius and download the presets for free for the following synths:

• Serum