How get your bass to sound like a fucking sledgehammer?

[Deebo]

this, I have not had something other than Nigel/preflex on my bass in over 2 years now and I dont plan on changing.

Just look on Ebay for a UAD 1 card, I got mine for less than $150 USD
plus I use the card for far more than just bass.
I use the fuck out of the Pultec eq on there and the 1176 and LA2A are amazing to have and they all act differently than the Wave's versions, its nice to have a little variety.

Hey Seth i have a UAD1 too and Preflex is amazing. What are you doing post on your bass after Preflex?

 

[Seth Munson]

Hey Seth i have a UAD1 too and Preflex is amazing. What are you doing post on your bass after Preflex?

Usually a little cut at 1.5k and a HP/LP into a limiter for taming and thats about it. It sounds amazing on its own and doesnt need much work once you dial in something nice and strong

 

[Emdprodukt]

I always scoop out 500hz on every bass I recorded so far

 

[OneDaySky]

I always scoop out 500hz on every bass I recorded so far

This helps a crap load! I do the same. It gets rid of that cheap hollow sound!

 

[jimwilbourne]

I always scoop out 500hz on every bass I recorded so far

good point.
except I tend to scoop at bit lower.
more around the 250-400 area depending on the mix. 500 is a bit too high to scoop for my tastes

 

[Seth Munson]

Y U NO LIEK LOW MIDS?

 

[Strachan of D]

i tend to cut at around 200ish as well . i just clears the bass right up and leaves space for snares

 

[PeterPaul760]

Buy a sans amp rack. Problem solved

 

[Backe]

distorsion is ze shit, the new TSE B.O.D. kicks butt on a highpassed track whilst keeping a tight clean DI low-track compressed and multibanded to shit.

 

[Ze4th0x]

I got a pretty good "sledgehammer" tone with Fender off of broomstick bass VST and the TSE B.O.D.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7331862/mp3s/drop a2.mp3

EDIT: Here is a much better example

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25341547/broomstickbass.mp3

I also wouldn't be surprised if Joey used harmonic exciters were used to make the bass sound a bit more gritty.

 

[DullElysium]

Are are they windows only?

I believe they are :/ It's a shame macs don't have all the same free vst's as PC.

 

[Charlez]

I think I found something interesting while searching around. This is an old post so I'm pretty sure this
has changed. (But it's only a starter after all)

here's a starter for you UAD users

UAD Preflex Mono

Compressor section:
-30 gate
-20 compression threshold
ratio 6:1
attack (medium, but varies from player / song)
release (fast, but varies from player / song)
engage the "boost" button

Preflex section:
-pre-
lo 6
mid 6
high 9
color 6
bent 6
-post-
lo 0
mid -9
hi +6
output 0

amp - A: bassmon or gemini
bright button turned off
morph 100% to the LEFT

turn the cab off

gemini tends to work better with cleaner stuff, and active pickups sound great on this
get new strings if you're missing some attack. go to the source before tweaking knobs. blue steel strings are nice on passive pickups. bassmon rocks for the grunge gain.

http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/8095356-post10.html

Edit: I didn't realize this was already posted on another thread. But oh well!