Best bass sim plugin?

[thefyn]

I am going to be recording some bass soon, and I normally go direct.

I want some different bass sounds to suit certain songs.

To give you an idea, on one song I need Anthrax style, another I need Overkill style and then I need some smooth bass for more epic stuff.

Styles include pick and finger so I need to shape the bass sounds to suit the different playing etc etc.

Any ideas? And better still clips of the results? I am using sonar 7.

 

[MetalJonesy]

im using the sansamp plug in PT i really dig it, alot of tone options. The other one i use a bit is the studio devil virtual bass amp. really great pre section on it, both fed through impulses if required

 

[Rockchops]

Ampeg SVX + external impulses ftw

 

[thefyn]

im using the sansamp plug in PT i really dig it, alot of tone options. The other one i use a bit is the studio devil virtual bass amp. really great pre section on it, both fed through impulses if required

Awesome! thanks, I didn't know they had a plug in version.

 

[Jarkko Mattheiszen]

+1 for the Sansamp plugin. I liked Ampeg SVX, too, but I get much better results with blending a DI track and a dirty Sansamp track together.

 

[xmortumx]

BTW i have ampeg svx but i was wondering what impulses do you guys use.. the same as the guitar ones? or is there some specific impulses made for bass?

 

[Joematthews]

BTW i have ampeg svx but i was wondering what impulses do you guys use.. the same as the guitar ones? or is there some specific impulses made for bass?

+1

I would like some bass cab impulses as well.

Joe

 

[zvish]

Here are some bass cab impulses, check them... they are from this forum

http://www.sendspace.com/file/aagpr4

 

[MetalJonesy]

gnna give those IR's a run later on with studio devil, ampeg and sansamp if i have time, cheers!!!

 

[thefyn]

Great info guys. Bass is important as I am tuning standard so I don't want it dangling like an afterthought. Thats what she said.

 

[Chryst Krispies]

Great info guys. Bass is important as I am tuning standard so I don't want it dangling like an afterthought. Thats what she said.

OK. The most important thing to get out of this thread is:
YOU MUST NEVER "That's what she said." YOURSELF!uke:

Sansamp ftw.

 

[Soundlurker]

Ampeg SVX and add WagnerSharp+Impulse+eq as an fx send, if dist/crunch isneeded.

 

[Exocaster]

I swear by SVX. I'll use pretty much anything for dirt on a bass track, to be honest.

Oh, and to a fellow HCAFer.

 

[Ermz]

Ampeg SVX is pretty cool for the rounder tones. When I look back, the tightest bass, with the best bass grit I have come from using Guitar Rig 2 as a bass amp. The quality is all in the DI itself though. If the core sound is muddy and flat, then you've got no hope.

In the future I will try running bass grit through my TS, due to ahjteam's bass stompbox video comparison. Seems like it'd do the trick!