some nice compression, most of the time it needs some equing to make it glue with the bassdrum and the guitars
but that depends alot on the mix and the other sounds, the main thing is good playing-working with clean bass
sounds most of the time because I dig it for my own stuff more.
Mixing the album of my new band right now, a bit progressive black metal, bass player plays a 5 string with his
fingers and just needs a clean sound because of the stuff he plays.
You know what? It's sooo easy to mix it because he plays incredible tight and stable, I just put a compressor
on there without even looking on the settings alot, but a hp and lp on it and that's it, glued with the rest sooo
well.
Recorded a song I wrote a few days ago, a bit trashy, punky and still funk influenced rock, clean bass on it,
it was hard to mix until I forced myself to record it again and play it tight, it helped alot, put a sansamp sim
on it, ampeg impulse, compression hp, lp (at 5khz) and reduced 500hz and 230 a bit (2-3db) and it worked
pretty well.