I went for the "lets make a ridiculous sounding trashy bass tone" mantra.
The surprise is that all the bass grit/distortion is coming from a Danelectro Honeytone practice amp.
I picked one up from guitar center a few weeks back really only because it was $20. It's actually a pretty decent little amp. The clean tones are nice, they give that vintage feel. But where this thing really shines is overdrive. Sounds like garbage on guitar, but gives just the right amount of grit on bass.
Instead of running direct out of the headphone jack (which may work well too) I mic'd it up with a AT4040.
Its mixed about 35/65 with a direct track from a Ibanez SR505 (which is slammed and saturated).
Heres the tone by itself:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/37353680/bass.wav
And here it is in a rough mix:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/37353680/mix%20with%20bass.wav
Tell me what ya think!
The surprise is that all the bass grit/distortion is coming from a Danelectro Honeytone practice amp.
I picked one up from guitar center a few weeks back really only because it was $20. It's actually a pretty decent little amp. The clean tones are nice, they give that vintage feel. But where this thing really shines is overdrive. Sounds like garbage on guitar, but gives just the right amount of grit on bass.
Instead of running direct out of the headphone jack (which may work well too) I mic'd it up with a AT4040.
Its mixed about 35/65 with a direct track from a Ibanez SR505 (which is slammed and saturated).
Heres the tone by itself:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/37353680/bass.wav
And here it is in a rough mix:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/37353680/mix%20with%20bass.wav

Tell me what ya think!