Axe fx 3 bass tones?

blastbeatdown said:
Yes everything I described is my preferred strategy for extremely downtuned modern metal bass. Again I’m a guitar player so I can’t be bothered with buying bass gear. Everything I do is “inside the box”. By chance are you running an older firmware? The B7K model from Fractal used to be pretty low output, but it was fixed in the last year. I have no problem balancing the distortion and clean/fundamentals. The actual B7K pedal just has a mix knob for blending in your clean DI, but I prefer the method I detailed in an earlier post. It functions more like the Darkglass X Ultra.
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Sorry, didn't click that you'd already posted. Will check out what you've described there. Using the last non-beta firmware
 
blastbeatdown said:
I like to use crossover/filter blocks to split the signal in two - everything above roughly 800 hz and everything below. Send the high end to the Darkglass B7K and keep everything below clean. You can keep the low end as a DI, but I like the results I get merging them into amp and cab blocks. You keep the mix at 100% on the B7K, dial drive to taste and balance the two signals to your liking. I also put a compressor at the start of the chain and another on the low side, low ratios.
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Do you mean that you bring the 2 paths back into one amp or keep the rows separate with separate amp blocks? Also not sure what you mean by the low side?
 
beavis2306 said:
Do you mean that you bring the 2 paths back into one amp or keep the rows separate with separate amp blocks? Also not sure what you mean by the low side?
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I merge them both into one amp and one cab block. As you can see in this Leon Todd video around 9:15, you can also run the low side straight to the output, essentially keeping your low fundamentals as a DI. I just prefer it my way, but your mileage may vary.

 
2 amp chains in parallel, both using the Mesa 400 model. Fat Rat or B7K Drive in front of one for grind that goes into 4x12 Darkglass IRs I captured. Optical Comp behind the other for the clean into DG 8X10s I captured.
 
fuzzydude said:
An 8 inch speaker in a monitor for bass guitar seems off. Though it says it has a frequency response down to 36Hz I can assure you it won't behave like a 12" speaker for a bass. Personally I wouldn't go less than 12". If that's not the problem, then maybe someone else can chime in.
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You need a room sized for the half-wavelength of the lowest note you want to hear without getting sucked up by room modes. It won't matter if you have a 24" woofer if you are in a 10x12 room. See:

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from: https://www.acousticfields.com/wavelengths-in-our-rooms/

Edit: I have a 19.5' control room so I can hear the low B on a five string bass.
 
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I had a bit of a win with adding a fuzz block in parallel with the distorted amp to add some more distortion to the tone. The fundamental is still overpowering over 8 or 9 fret on the low string. Also going to investigate a smaller string than 150 for the low g# to see if that will be functional.
 
beavis2306 said:
Anyone got any insight about how to add distortion without it being excessively sharp and obnoxious? Low cut frequencies on distortion channel etc
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Sounds like you want to keep clear of anything darkglass then.... try the dug pinnik tech 21 pedal.

A lot of the more modern distortios have that higher end spike.... the mix does cut it out a bit but soloed it’s pretty nasty.


Also some people will fun a parallel path but on the distortion side cut it on the lows and highs. Ola had a good video somewhere showing it
 
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