Best bass distortion plug-in

[FrankTheSmith]

Demo'd the Studio Devil VBA Pro. Pretty cool, but $100 cool.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/a7x85zbdda79oi2/Studio Devil VBA.mp3?dl=0

 

[Progbass]

Srs question: am I misusing the TSE B.O.D. for the clank track? I find that it gets a nice, clanky but not at all overdriven tone no matter how hard I turn the drive knob..until I hit the max, at which point it introduces some gross distortion. But there seems to be no in-between; 90% of the knob (between 8 and 4 o'clock, in other words) does nothing and doesn't seem to affect the tone. Is my input too low or something? I usually feed it your standard -18db RMS bass DI.

I've had same kind of issues with the TSE B.O.D v2.0, but dont remember having it with v1.0. For me it only occurs sometimes and re-opening my daw fixes the issue. It's like the drive knob somehow loses its effect as you described it.

 

[Variant]

Little late to the party here, but I've recently got good results with the Native Instruments Ramfire plugin, which is a dark sounding Recto tone. The ol' separate channel w/ a bandpass. You really have to get the gain and volume in the sweet spot, but once there, pretty darn good.

 

[guy in latvia]

Is it safe to run a bass DI into my miced up guitar rig, if i filter out everything below 500hz? Should I filter higher? Should I use a bass cab instead?

 

[Delitzsch]

Is it safe to run a bass DI into my miced up guitar rig, if i filter out everything below 500hz? Should I filter higher? Should I use a bass cab instead?

Yeah, it's perfectly fine to reamp a bass through a guitar rig. You don't have to filter everything below 500Hz before going into the guitar amp, just turn down the bass knob on the amp a lot.