A versatile good sounding bass shaper (software..?

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mixsit

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When a) the bass is too round/wrong shape, and/or b) needs some appropriate crunch' in the right place.
I have one right now where it needs- I guess a rather rougher crunch' would be a way to discribe it vs just soft saturation tools I have. I'm already doing some edge and attack shaping through expansion (that's working better in this case than 'transient designer..) but I'm looking for a way to bring in the edge of some controlled break up.
(had 'Nigel but lost it with UAD2, not so sure that was the ticket antway.
Any faves there?
No ilok please
:D
 
You might want to try your hand at parallel compression on the bass track. ;)









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How about the Blowfish compressor from Digital Fish? It's "Saturation" knob ain't bad at adding dirt to bass. And it's free.

G.
 
moresound said:
You might want to try your hand at parallel compression on the bass track. ;)

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Mmm. Wrong diretion. Actually I'm trying to get it to speak' on the front edge ..more dynamic not less. :)

..so I'm in the shower and thinking, I've got this really neat LoneStar crunch machine setting here.. it wouldn't hurt me to finally try so re-amping over here..
:drunk:
 
RAMI said:
I've done that so often, I'm surprised a baby hasn't crawled out of the drain yet. :eek:
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Ahh. Good at multi tasking there.
;)

Gota go now my pussy's scratching
(..at the door Gota go let him in.

:p
 
How about an amp sim? Sansamp can do wonders for a bass.
 
Then let's try a Little Labs "VOG". There maybe by now a plug in version?







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Don't mess around. Just re-record the bass with the correct amp sound.
 
mixsit said:
Mmm. Wrong diretion. Actually I'm trying to get it to speak' on the front edge ..more dynamic not less.
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You may still be able to achieve that w/ parallel compression, it just depends how you treat the uncompressed signal, as well as how the Attack time on the compressed channel is set.

But I agree, based on your OP an ampsim would be the first thing I'd try.
 
I love this manual routing (no specific plugins):

main track: compressor, pre-fader send to a parallel group, lowpass
parallel group: verylow-pass, highpass, drive, lowpass, eq, add to taste
 
Well.. Ok, when you're right you're right. ;) Actually this whole trip turned out to be a nice exercise in nine' different flavors of different; crunches', plugs, time alignments (surprised to see I had to advance the reamps' rather than pull them back as I expect they would need..), but never did find what I was going for. Funny, after doing this stuff for quite a while I get the idea that I think I know if I just 'do such and such here'.. x' will come out the other end. :rolleyes:
Chibi Nappa said:
Don't mess around. Just re-record the bass with the correct amp sound.
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It's cool though. Not my tracks, not the bass player, did it for me (for them..) A good healthy experiment on my dime.
 
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