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Inspired
Hey all.
As the thread title suggests: I've made some bass patches. However I'm a bit clueless with bass and I often struggle to get the bass guitar to sit correctly in my mixes.
So I threw on a new set of Rotosound strings onto my bass and spent the afternoon setting up bass patches from scratch. Obviously when it comes to mixing, there are things I can definitely improve on, but if you've got some kickass sounds to start off with, then it makes your life a shitload easier doesn't it?
First thing's first. Here's my bass DI:
Recorded by going Bass -> RNDI -> RME UCX. I'm using this DI to test all the patches. However if you can hear anything particularly shite about the DI, that's gonna be the first thing for me to fix isn't it? My bass has an active preamp so there's some tweaking I can do to the DI sound. Cliche' riff to play, but I wanted to test the sound across all 4 strings and a bit of chugga-in Drop D.
Here's my clean patch
All other patches are based on this clean sound. I basically changed the drive pedal in front of each patch to get a different flavour. So again, if there's something particularly shite about this patch, then that's gonna be the first thing to fix. This one doesn't have a drive pedal in front of it .
Here's my dirty patch:
I've thrown a FET Boost in front of the clean patch to try to boost it into some spanky OD. What I don't like about my bass patches in general is the low end distortion. I like the spanky sorta wet slappy sound up top, but I'm not a fan of rumbly farts on the low strings. Is this something I can fix or is it the nature of bass OD? I think I might have a bit too much OD on here.
Here's my metal patch:
I'm using a Rat Distortion on this. Once again, I dig the top end. The bottom end doesn't seem to be farting as much on the bottom strings, but to me it sounds a bit hollow. Again, I'm not sure if this is something I can fix or if it's the nature of bass distortion.
Here's my Fuzz Patch:
In regards to fuzz? Yeah. I've never used it before. On anythiing. I dig the fuzzy, disgusting sounds Muse sometimes get from their bass. I'm not REALLY trying to clone that bass sound because I don't think it's possible with JUST an AFX and a Bass Guitar. However I wanted some sort of disgusting fuzzy sound that still sounds musical and adds some oomph.
Go nuts. I know my monitors are a bit weird (especially with the top-end) so any and all suggestions are very welcome. As I said, I don't really know what I'm doing with bass sounds and am approaching this as a guitarist so if I've emphasised the wrong "tones" or whatever, I would hardly be surprised.
There's no processing done on any of the tracks. Everything is AFX -> Interace -> Speakers. No EQ, Compression, Filter or anything.
Thanks for your time
As the thread title suggests: I've made some bass patches. However I'm a bit clueless with bass and I often struggle to get the bass guitar to sit correctly in my mixes.
So I threw on a new set of Rotosound strings onto my bass and spent the afternoon setting up bass patches from scratch. Obviously when it comes to mixing, there are things I can definitely improve on, but if you've got some kickass sounds to start off with, then it makes your life a shitload easier doesn't it?
First thing's first. Here's my bass DI:
Recorded by going Bass -> RNDI -> RME UCX. I'm using this DI to test all the patches. However if you can hear anything particularly shite about the DI, that's gonna be the first thing for me to fix isn't it? My bass has an active preamp so there's some tweaking I can do to the DI sound. Cliche' riff to play, but I wanted to test the sound across all 4 strings and a bit of chugga-in Drop D.
Here's my clean patch
All other patches are based on this clean sound. I basically changed the drive pedal in front of each patch to get a different flavour. So again, if there's something particularly shite about this patch, then that's gonna be the first thing to fix. This one doesn't have a drive pedal in front of it .
Here's my dirty patch:
I've thrown a FET Boost in front of the clean patch to try to boost it into some spanky OD. What I don't like about my bass patches in general is the low end distortion. I like the spanky sorta wet slappy sound up top, but I'm not a fan of rumbly farts on the low strings. Is this something I can fix or is it the nature of bass OD? I think I might have a bit too much OD on here.
Here's my metal patch:
I'm using a Rat Distortion on this. Once again, I dig the top end. The bottom end doesn't seem to be farting as much on the bottom strings, but to me it sounds a bit hollow. Again, I'm not sure if this is something I can fix or if it's the nature of bass distortion.
Here's my Fuzz Patch:
In regards to fuzz? Yeah. I've never used it before. On anythiing. I dig the fuzzy, disgusting sounds Muse sometimes get from their bass. I'm not REALLY trying to clone that bass sound because I don't think it's possible with JUST an AFX and a Bass Guitar. However I wanted some sort of disgusting fuzzy sound that still sounds musical and adds some oomph.
Go nuts. I know my monitors are a bit weird (especially with the top-end) so any and all suggestions are very welcome. As I said, I don't really know what I'm doing with bass sounds and am approaching this as a guitarist so if I've emphasised the wrong "tones" or whatever, I would hardly be surprised.
There's no processing done on any of the tracks. Everything is AFX -> Interace -> Speakers. No EQ, Compression, Filter or anything.
Thanks for your time