Bass Tone

[Jahang]

Hey guys,

For a while now i've been messing around trying to recording bass for my tracks and I'm not liking how it is turning out.

I've been going bass > DI > Interface and I've been trying random Bass amps on Pod farm and adding some Compression/ EQ but I am not satisfied with the tone.

I've always loved Joey's bass tone and I read somewhere on here that he uses Nigel for his bass tone.

I was wondering if you guys were familiar with any other similar sounding amp sims for bass and maybe discuss different ways to go about getting a similar sound to Joey's bass tone

Thanks in advance

 

[JeffEstrada]

I know your talking about real bass but if you ever decide to program bass, you can get some pretty good sounding tones out of trilian

EDIT: You can check this tutorial out for real bass> http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/production-tips/615947-metal-bass-guitar-tutorial.html

 

[PeterPaul760]

I bought my UAD1 card for $70, buy that and get nigel OR buy a sans amp pedal or rack.

 

[PeterPaul760]

You can check this tutorial out for real bass> http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/production-tips/615947-metal-bass-guitar-tutorial.html

^^^ or that

 

[RattyFiend]

try the rock classic bass amp in podfarm, with drive and bass at 50%, lo mids, hi mids and treble at 100%. 8x10 cab 0% room. 47 close mic. i also throw the american classic preamp at the very end.

pretty decent clanky sound.

 

[Tommy Evans]

I use the rock classic amp too. Best bass amp in pod I've found so far.

 

[OneDaySky]

Back in the day before Joey was using the UAD Nigel, he used the Brit Invader in Podfarm Platinum

 

[Tommy Evans]

Fun factoid!

 

[beechstudio]

I occasionally use maxxbass on my bass tracks. Not always the same settings, and it depends on the tone of the guitars. Sometimes boosting subs, and sometimes booting the low mids to make it fit with guitars. YMMV

 

[tempe]

Good bass tone is 95% getting a good bass, fresh strings and knowing how to play it. I do a bunch of weird things processing wise, I commit all of this on the way in. The bass is split via a DI with two "thru" outputs.

The chain is something like this

Bass < DI < interface
< Kustom bass head (forget the model) < Recabinet with mesa 4x12 and Ampeg 8x10 cab blended (pretty vanilla round sound with lots of low mids)
< Kustom direct out < Sans Amp PSA-1 (not set super trashy, just something smooth with a little bit of distortion)
< Peavey 5150 < recabinet with same cabinet setting (this for all the grind and clank, its set so it sounds like ass.

Edit: Found a clip! This is just straight after tracking, no real mixing just levels and a bit of bus compression, its not edited yet either so I guess this the best example I can give of how this sounds raw! http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10373364/Blackstar-5150Bass.mp3

I blend everything in the box and compress on the group to glue it all together, you have to be careful with phase using this technique but its nothing a little bit of fiddling doesn't fix.

If you were to do something like this with amp sims, I'd use the DI, a sans amp emulation, the acoustic 360 model in podfarm and whatever high gain amp sim you like.

 

[Fandus]

DI and a sansamp RBI never fails

 

[Seth Munson]

DI and a sansamp RBI never fails

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What I have been doing lately is blending nigel with a real ampeg rig and some sansamp

 

[Vinny]

Bass amp head + Sansamp + DI all on different tracks and edited/EQ'd/compressed differently. Then I add a bit of bus compression and EQ to get them to sit together well