In Flames - Come Clarity bass sound

the most important thing about getting this type of tone is having a good bass with good pickups, new strings, and playing consistently hard. It doesnt matter whether you use a sansamp, mxr bass di, dime distortion, boss bass super overdrive, whatever.

I wouldnt go sell my sansamp bass driver and boss bass od because it wasnt used on come clarity.

also, the character of the bass is somewhat attributed to how everything else sounds and where it fits in the mix. similar to the slaughter of the soul guitar tone.
 
I think the key is running the grit through a real amp/cab chain to soften it up and add balls.


I just traded an old p.a head for a carvin pro bass 200. its a sweet sounding amp! has a 5 band eq and parametric mid eq. 160 watts with 1 15" driver. cant wait to mic it up and try this out. I attempted using my dual rec to track bass grit, but it got lost in the guitars a little too much.
 
I still remember how much I hated the bass sound when my GF got the CD back then :lol:
Now I think it's quite cool, although it sounds a bit like the bass is farting at times...really fits the mix though.
 
All this is good and cool if you have the gear and bass stacks to mic up and record with... but what about modeling/software options?! Any tips on getting a filthy grind tone but with amp sims and shit? Would Lecto be the best choice for the bass grind, or something else like a pedal model :confused:
 
All this is good and cool if you have the gear and bass stacks to mic up and record with... but what about modeling/software options?! Any tips on getting a filthy grind tone but with amp sims and shit? Would Lecto be the best choice for the bass grind, or something else like a pedal model :confused:

I tried various guit-amp and homebrew bass IR's but at the moment, I'm getting the best results from POD Farm, TBH. I'm not quite there, but it seams (in the modeling world anyway) that it's a balance of the pedal and the amp grind... too much and of the former and it gets square-wave fuzzy, or too much of the latter and it gets that "traditional" compressed distorted metal bass sound. Also, the "clean" track has gotta be kinda dirty too, it being a blend of slightly gritty amp and DI with enough high end dialed in for the string rattle to come through.
 
Hi!

I'm trying to get this bass tone. I't's a 5 year old thread, maybe someone have some good suggestion.
I'm a beginner in a bass guitar, I buy my first bass guitar a few days ago. It's an Ibanez SR505, and I use it with VST plugins, like LPX bass amp VST's, TSE BOD, Ampeg SVX.
So, first of all, how should I set the EQ knobs and the balancer knob(which pickup) on my bass? Then please some suggestion for VST's :)
 
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Hi!
I'm trying to get this bass tone. I't's a 5 year old thread, maybe someone have some good suggestion.
I'm a beginner in a bass guitar, I buy my first bass guitar a few days ago. It's an Ibanez SR505, and I use it with VST plugins, like LPX bass amp VST's, TSE BOD, Ampeg SVX.
So, first of all, how should I set the EQ knobs and the balancer knob(which pickup) on my bass? Then please some suggestion for VST's :)

Have you read the whole thread? Your answers are there.
You won't get that tone when playing. It was a advanced mixing process.