Post your best disto bass tone!

[Heabow]

First of all, I don't want common rules for bass mixing. I've already read many threads here and tried many many things but distorted bass is still a real fight for me.

Classic way: one clean for the low end and another one for distortion. Lately I add a third one for the sub. About distortion I tried PSA1, Mesa recto, Engl savage both using bass cabs, guitar cabs... Nothing seems to work.

Ok, the bass tone depends on the mix itself, etc. but it still could be REALLY helpful if some of you that are good at mixing bass would post your best bass layering - I mean your sub track, grit track and disto track to see how sound each track. I think it would be useful for many of other sneapers too.

Thanks!

 

[Beneath_the_Bliss]

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/32460957/BD.mp3

Ignore the drums, it's from a few months ago. Really like the grind I managed to get with the bass. I had a friend reamp my bass body tone (which just consists of the sansamp plugin in Pod Farm). It was reamped through UAD nigel/preflex, firstly going through a HP filter at 500Hz.

I think Nigel has a smooth, unharsh type of distortion that nothing else really has.


Btw, the bass and strings are a great part of the tone. If you're trying to get grind out of a crappy bass with old, dull strings, then there's no hope.

Bass on this clip was a Warwick 5 String with Pro Steels.

 

[Ermz]

I'm more about grit and 'clank' than outright distortion on bass, but this one came up fairly decent for a quick mix:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/285689/death-metal-mix5.mp3

 

[crillemannen]

Great rock bass:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12967127/Baby Bas.mp3

Think it was a Fender bass with Ampeg Classic SVT III with od808 for overdrive

Great metal bas:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12967127/fire_drm_bass.mp3

This was a bass with actives (don't remember which) with Mesa Rectifier with Maxon Od808

 

[JayB]

I'm more about grit and 'clank' than outright distortion on bass, but this one came up fairly decent for a quick mix:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/285689/death-metal-mix5.mp3

What did you do to make the vocals sit so well in that mix? Just normal verb and delay?

 

[Franxound]

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/32460957/BD.mp3

Ignore the drums, it's from a few months ago. Really like the grind I managed to get with the bass. I had a friend reamp my bass body tone (which just consists of the sansamp plugin in Pod Farm). It was reamped through UAD nigel/preflex, firstly going through a HP filter at 500Hz.

I think Nigel has a smooth, unharsh type of distortion that nothing else really has.


Btw, the bass and strings are a great part of the tone. If you're trying to get grind out of a crappy bass with old, dull strings, then there's no hope.

Bass on this clip was a Warwick 5 String with Pro Steels.

I love that tone man!

 

[Heabow]

Thanks for your input gentlemen! All these clips sound killer!!
I'm pretty sure you guys have several tracks layered... Any chance to get these tracks soloed?

 

[Jordon]

Here's a few:

Quarters Rev2

Quarters Rev 2 Bass Stem


ORDER 66 REV 4 MASTER

Order 66 Bass Stem


Don't Look back Rough Master

Don't Look Back Bass Stem

 

[JayB]

Thanks for your input gentlemen! All these clips sound killer!!
I'm pretty sure you guys have several tracks layered... Any chance to get these tracks soloed?

I would also love to hear this... for science reasons

 

[Jordon]

I'll try to get some solo'd tracks tomorrow.

 

[brette344]

Heres two of my personal favorites I've done

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3175304/bass tones/bass master tone.mp3

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3175304/bass tones/bass tone.mp3

 

[Heabow]

Damn, I love what I'm hearing! Keep posting! I'll try some reamps today through TS and Mesa recto again and see what you think.
Thanks guys!

 

[Ermz]

Cool, well here's a very recent one. From a few hours ago, in fact.

Very rough bass tone, just after my 'printing' process, essentially the way it goes in as a raw track into my proper mix session: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/285689/Forum/Ermz - Harlott Bass Print.mp3

The processing was light EQ and comp through the Millennia. Split into two tracks, lows and highs treated with single distortion/amp processors, filtered, combined then ridden, saturated and compressed once with the Distressor (that's the 'printing' part of it). No post EQ, multi-band compression, limiting or any of that other jazz which will finalize it in the mix.

 

[Heabow]

Man, it sounds awesome and the player is really good too! Thank you for sharing it, it helps me a lot

My main (and not the only one!) default is I always want to push the lows too hard being afraid to not have enough later and getting thin mixes. The result is often on the boomy side. Bad perception (partly due to my monitoring system)

I tried some stuff but it doesn't sound good enough to post here now to be honest

 

[Jordon]

Don't be afraid of getting rid of shitty frequencies in the low end.

 

[Heabow]

Yeah, I work A LOT on the low end lately to fix this recurrent problem. And I'm facing the challenge of getting big balls AND controlled low end. Common dilemma I suppose.

 

[Ermz]

Yep, it's one of the hardest things to do.

 

[Heabow]

Here's a project I started to mix 2 days ago. The bass doesn't sound good soloed (sounds like very old strings) so useless to post it alone but as we're talking about bass tone and low end I submit this short clip. Looking for comments about the bass/low end exclusively (about anything else, I posted the same clip in the right section)

I tried to use a 'sub' track - peak at 50Hz nothing above 110Hz - in addition to a dirty track high passed at 70Hz. How do you feel the bass? Does it work well?

Bass + drums
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/36870048/drums&bass.mp3

With guitars
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/36870048/reamptest2.mp3

 

[osum]

Not my really best, but I like it: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/32193848/bass_sound.ogg

 

[Kita]

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/32460957/BD.mp3

Ignore the drums, it's from a few months ago. Really like the grind I managed to get with the bass. I had a friend reamp my bass body tone (which just consists of the sansamp plugin in Pod Farm). It was reamped through UAD nigel/preflex, firstly going through a HP filter at 500Hz.

I think Nigel has a smooth, unharsh type of distortion that nothing else really has.


Btw, the bass and strings are a great part of the tone. If you're trying to get grind out of a crappy bass with old, dull strings, then there's no hope.

Bass on this clip was a Warwick 5 String with Pro Steels.

What's the reverb you're using on that snare?