There are a ton of different approaches, I usually only use 1 or 2 tracks but I've tried using 3 (or more) tracks in different ways with moderate success. The most crucial parts of a good bass guitar tone, as I've come to learn from trial and error and that one fearedse vid, is a good sounding bass guitar (with fresh strings!) and a good player. This is something you won't get in many VSTi basses. Once you have a good raw sound it's hard to make it sound bad unintentionally.
Trying to poke holes in hi gain guitars :)
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There are a ton of different approaches, I usually only use 1 or 2 tracks but I've tried using 3 (or more) tracks in different ways with moderate success. The most crucial parts of a good bass guitar tone, as I've come to learn from trial and error and that one fearedse vid, is a good sounding bass guitar (with fresh strings!) and a good player. This is something you won't get in many VSTi basses. Once you have a good raw sound it's hard to make it sound bad unintentionally.
The one I used is the Prominy SR5 Rock Bass, which sounds pretty damn good to me... it's regarded as one of the best programmed bass sounds... check it out here
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmGsEmjyFt8&feature=relmfu[/ame]
I think that the program might've come with some presets for amp sim programs... maybe I'll just try that and tweak it
Thanks!
You're right about the hollowness, just fixed this:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2764370/Song-EQ-Test-02.mp3
Here are my EQ settings for the left channel. The right channel is exactly the same.https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2764370/surgical%20EQ.jpg
I routed them to a bus with a pultec EQ to get back some low end and shine, and a tape sim for some saturation.
I used one of the bass files you provided. I think i ended up with the 'less mids' one.
Interesting EQ, this version sounds pretty good... So you only high passed at 90 and lo cut at like 12 khz? and just notched out a bunch of small peaks... in my EQ I juts had a LP and HP at like 120 and 6 or 7 khz... I'll have to try your method
By the way here's a link to an updated Zip folder that has the all files with the bass DI in there
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2354806/Sn...rding/S1 Files EQ Thread Sneap Volharding.zip
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2354806/Sn...rding/S1 Files EQ Thread Sneap Volharding.zip
Here's a new mix I just did... what do you guys think of the EQ on this
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2354806/Sneap Forum Mix help/Track 1 EQ Jay 7 14 2012.mp3
meant to take a screenshot of the EQ, I can do that later if you guys want
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2354806/Sneap Forum Mix help/Track 1 EQ Jay 7 14 2012.mp3
meant to take a screenshot of the EQ, I can do that later if you guys want
I'm trying to go for a mix similar to All That Remains "The Fall Of Ideals" btw, love that cd... level wise especially, with the loud guitars and such...
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EDIT: made a new thread, if anyone's interested with helping me get a decent bass tone on this:
http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/...d-help-decent-itb-bass-tone-files-inside.html
http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/...d-help-decent-itb-bass-tone-files-inside.html
