do my bass tones suck?

[clarbaden]

i am a noob with mixing bass especially when its a pitched di guitar, can you guys help me out with some tips or some vsts that you use in your chain.

D.i guitar>cockos pitch> tse x30>lecab-fredman impulse>waves maximizer>waves eq.
cheers

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2412166/duh duh duh.mp3

only a short clip

 

[clarbaden]

and drop box decided to cut the clip so a short clip has got even shorter lol

 

[Morgan C]

Your bass tones suck because they're not a bass guitar, and you're not running them through a bass amp.

 

[Joematthews]

Buy a bass. Doesn't sound thaaaat bad, but a real bass would litteraly rape that tone.

Joe

 

[rchoi54]

I use a pitched guitar, and it sounds FINE.

I say take the raw DI, pitch it sound an octave, compress a little, EQ, and leave it. no need to make it fancy

 

[Jordon]

Yea, if you're going to go that way, use the middle pickup selection. Honestly, if you don't want to buy a bass, I'd try to find a VST bass synth. There might be a free one out there somewhere.

 

[brianhood]

buy a bass and buy a sansamp. Easiest way to do DI bass for me

 

[Jordon]

I'm a big fan of Ampeq SVX for in-the-box bass tones. For a little grind, take your DI track, throw a light compressor on it then --> TSS (drive at 2 o'clock, tone to taste, level set to balance things out) --> and your favorite impulse(s).

 

[AerialThesis]

try boosting the tone around 200hz and make the 1k region crisp a bit more. It might help a bit more