Best bass distortion plug-in

[brandy]

It's an RTAS/TDM only plug-in sadly. On the bright side there is an actual hardware unit that it's based on, so you can use that instead .

too bad!

Until then maybe just try recording through any of your guitar stompboxes and see if anything fits.

My problem with that approach is that you get all this fizz and nasty shit in the bass distortion. I'm after something a little more organic.

Exact the same here... I do not need a grind-core sound with just white noise

Ok, I have the possibility to reamp through some cool stuff.. I have a Mesa Quad Preamp here together with a Mesa Strategy 400 Amp. Sounds very cool on bass. Can give you all kind of sounds.

But usually I have no time to set up the shit, messing around with that preamp for ages, reamping everything... A lot of mixing I do don't have the budget to spend half a day with the bass...

AND I usually modify the sound during the mix a couple of times.

Maybe I should get into the Mesa-thing a little deeper. This would give me organic results...

 

[brandy]

Just ordered the Sansamp Bass Driver. Should be here tomorrow. Beeing very curious

 

[Ermz]

Ok so we're in agreement that the very best bass distortion is going to come from a fairly moderate gain analogue circuit, like a guitar amp, distortion pedal etc.?

Good luck with the Bass Driver, Brandy. I hope it gives you what you're after. I had a brief stint with those and they weren't to my personal liking, but I've heard many others get what they need with it.

 

[LSD-Studio]

BDDI winds up being on every project.
for distortion I like the H&K tubefactor or rectifier miced with sm7

 

[dcb]

Just ordered the Sansamp Bass Driver. Should be here tomorrow. Beeing very curious

meinst du die hardware version?
hatten wir letztes jahr getestet... ging direkt wieder zurück..
vlt hast damit mehr glück!
///
do you mean the hardware version? bought it last year... sent it back the next day... maybe you'll do better

 

[brandy]

Yea - dieses Teil hier:

http://www.thomann.de/de/tech_21_bass_driver.htm

I will check that out as soon as it arrives - 3 mixes are waiting... If it sucks.. well there is still the 30days monay back option

Grüsse nach Hamburg!

 

[Jaymz]

Its great

 

[Ermz]

Does that seriously say 249 EUR? Wow... I might well be looking at POD farm.

 

[Machinated]

If you already have a pod/line 6 product, there is a special offer on gearbox right now.

 

[LSD-Studio]

Does that seriously say 249 EUR? Wow... I might well be looking at POD farm.

nah, you can get it for 219€ and it's totally worth it!

 

[brandy]

nah, you can get it for 219€ and it's totally worth it!

Ah? And where? Thomann, Digitalaudioservie and Musicstore etc are all at 249,-

 

[LSD-Studio]

Ah? And where? Thomann, Digitalaudioservie and Musicstore etc are all at 249,-

ah, fuck, must have gone up in price then, I bought it at digital audio service

EDIT:
guckstu hier: http://www.dv247.com/invt/30295/

 

[Zack Uidl]

I think Ben Johnson was selling one of those ^ (from this forum). Probably could get it cheaper from him if I remembered correctly

 

[metaldan1654]

IMHO Super Angry Distortion is the best new distortion... Very simple and really modern sounding bitcrusher in it. Nasty Nasty Nasty Nasty



I also have Ozone which I use the harmonic distortion and also I like to overload withthe Ozone uhm plate reverb that sounds really nice shimmery in the high end but waves is only good if ur post processing, for live i use the Super Angry and just beat on it :hotjump:

 

[Nuno Filipe]

^dafuk? smells like a shameless self promotion. What this shit have to do with bass guitar distortion?

 

[metaldan1654]

^dafuk? smells like a shameless self promotion. What this shit have to do with bass guitar distortion?

Huh? I'm just saying i use it to treat my bass...... Sounds rly nice on my XB600

 

[derekmoffat]

Huh? I'm just saying i use it to treat my bass...... Sounds rly nice on my XB600

So you bump a thread from 5 years ago?

 

[Heabow]

Maybe it's better to bump an ancient thread than opening a new one about the same exact subject, no?

 

[crillemannen]

I like Studio devil amp pro, their 8x10 sounds awesome. Other than that i always find a use for the Protools plugin sansamp.

 

[Nikolas Quemtri]

Magix' Vandal, Overloud's Markbass 1/2, IKMultimedia's Amplitube - they all are good enough to get a slamming bass tone, I think.
There are also Softube's Bass Amp Room, bass amps from the PODFarm coming to mind, but haven't dug them actually.
TSE B.O.D. - the best bass SansAmp (BassDriver, the same, yeah) among freebies.