Metal Bass Guitar tutorial...

[Mago]

Why wasnt this kind of stuff available when I needed it a few years back
cool tut again Ola!

 

[Jaymz]

Which Lasse kick is that Ola? Sounds rather punchy

 

[reg3n]

fucking awesome!!!! thanks!

 

[ahjteam]

no highpass on the lower track? not even at 30hz? In my experience it usually eats like several db's of headroom if you don't do it.

 

[Ola Englund]

no highpass on the lower track? not even at 30hz? In my experience it usually eats like several db's of headroom if you don't do it.

Yeah but I have to break the point of information somewhere. I could go on and on using multiband compressor and what to eq and not but my goal was to keep the videos as simple as possible and just get the general idea on how I record and mix bass guitar. I could easily cope with just using the instructions in the video.

 

[Pxz]

This shit is Tight ¡¡¡¡¡¡

 

[ballstix]

I literally burst out laughing at "compresses the shit out of your track"

Thanks

 

[53Crëw]

Bringin' the Br00talz and the lulz.

Well done, Ola.

 

[Teddyboy]

Nice video once again Mr.Gibson!!!

 

[Ionei]

Awesome as fuck.

 

[abt]

 

[Chris_P_Critter]

The computer voice saying "Go headbang the shit out of your parents" and, "This shit is tight" had me laughing my ass off!!!

 

[JBroll]

I'm going to pretend that was Stephen Hawking and go have some very strange dreams.

Jeff

 

[Star Ark]

How are you getting the robot effect on your voice?

 

[drew_drummer]

Hey Ola - was there any reason you EQ'd the distorted bass track AFTER the distortion effect. I tend to always EQ the RAW bass and then send that into the distortion. Curious why you do it the other way round.... ?

 

[JBroll]

I wouldn't expect nice things to come from the low or high ends of a dirty bass track whose sole purpose in existence was to sound bad...

Jeff

 

[drew_drummer]

I wouldn't expect nice things to come from the low or high ends of a dirty bass track whose sole purpose in existence was to sound bad...

Jeff

Nah what I was getting at is there is gonna be a difference between how the distortion reacts to the full bass signal, and to a lp'd and hp'd bass signal. I tend to lp+hp the bass BEFORE the distortion, so that the distortion circuit doesn't crap out on the lower frequencies, and it also tames the distortion characteristics too.

But since Ola gets fat-as-all-unholy-fuck tones, I'm going to assume he knows what he's doing. So I'm curious if he's tried the other way, and if he prefers the way in his tutorial, and if so... why. I should really just go and try it, but I'm lying in bed with a laptop and a smelly arse - getting into my own stinky groove here.

 

[Mattayus]

This and your guitar one need to be stickied dude

 

[drew_drummer]

This and your guitar one need to be stickied dude

+1

 

[JBroll]

Nah what I was getting at is there is gonna be a difference between how the distortion reacts to the full bass signal, and to a lp'd and hp'd bass signal. I tend to lp+hp the bass BEFORE the distortion, so that the distortion circuit doesn't crap out on the lower frequencies, and it also tames the distortion characteristics too.

But since Ola gets fat-as-all-unholy-fuck tones, I'm going to assume he knows what he's doing. So I'm curious if he's tried the other way, and if he prefers the way in his tutorial, and if so... why. I should really just go and try it, but I'm lying in bed with a laptop and a smelly arse - getting into my own stinky groove here.

I understand what you're saying better now, but... again, I don't think he wants tamed, sane, or otherwise nice distortion, and a great way to make distortion of that kind sound awful is to not focus the mids and cut away the things that make distortion play nicely with others.

Jeff