Right now I'm not in the best situation to buy a bass guitar but my tracks are really needing that bottom end. How would I go about making my guitar sound like a bass in reaper?
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GarethSE
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Well what I do is I pitch shift down an octave, compress the living shit out of it, eq it a bit so it's not TOO boomy, and then low pass it so it's basically nothing but low end.
It's primitive as fuck and it definitely isn't the kind of bass sound you go searching for in a mix, but it fills out that frequency area well enough.
Check out mine and dcdanman's bow down cover posted in the rate my mix forum, 2nd page, the bass on there is just one of the guitar tracks pitch shifted down and octave and processed like that.
i added in a second track with wagner 0.2 distorting the top end (that was high passed pretty high) but I low passed basically all of that out on the bass group, so it wasn't really worth my time.
It's primitive as fuck and it definitely isn't the kind of bass sound you go searching for in a mix, but it fills out that frequency area well enough.
Check out mine and dcdanman's bow down cover posted in the rate my mix forum, 2nd page, the bass on there is just one of the guitar tracks pitch shifted down and octave and processed like that.
i added in a second track with wagner 0.2 distorting the top end (that was high passed pretty high) but I low passed basically all of that out on the bass group, so it wasn't really worth my time.
ahjteam
Anssi Tenhunen
DanLights
Santa Hat Forever
agreed, a cheap one will do the job. Although Xratedodo's technique I have heard is used also, never used it myself, I'm a bassist so I obviously always have a bass
ahjteam
Anssi Tenhunen
Yup, get a piggybank and each day put all your small change + $1-3 a day or $10-20 a week aside and you can afford to get a reasonable quality bass in 1-3 months.
ahjteam
Anssi Tenhunen
The reason I am saying get a real bass is this: ghettobass vs real bass (open and palm muted and then the same thru a bass sim). The low end just is a mess with the pitchshifted guitar, no other processing on it except I pitchshifted it down an octave. I tried to match the feel of the playing and levels of the dry signals as close as possible
Erkan
mr-walker.bandcamp
Haha, someone I know found a Hohner B2A in a "trash room" in their building or whatever you'd call 'em in english (the sort of place where people throw random shit, and the government's people come pick it up and sort it at their facilities) and it's working just fine! It's at my place right now and I'm guessing even that bass sounds better than pitch shifting a guitar 
This is the B2A (not the one that was found though)
So if you're lucky, you might not even have to buy one! Keep your eyes open, hahaha
This is the B2A (not the one that was found though)
So if you're lucky, you might not even have to buy one! Keep your eyes open, hahaha
DanLights
Santa Hat Forever
Haha, someone I know found a Hohner B2A in a "trash room" in their building or whatever you'd call 'em in english (the sort of place where people throw random shit, and the government's people come pick it up and sort it at their facilities) and it's working just fine! It's at my place right now and I'm guessing even that bass sounds better than pitch shifting a guitar
This is the B2A (not the one that was found though)
So if you're lucky, you might not even have to buy one! Keep your eyes open, hahaha
wow! awesome story! Btw I don't know how it's called in english either, in my language it's "deposito de basura" or trash deposit. I haven't heard one of these things but I'm correct they come with active EMGs right? if that's so it's a no-brainer, it sounds good
