Where do you get your bass?

[declassified]

Just wondering where you get the low frequencies for your songs.

Where do you usually get your bass from? Please specify which you use the most.

Do you sample a single bass note and pitch it?
Or do you sample bass loops?
Or do you use some kind of Sample Playing VSTi like Trilogy?
Or do you use a synth plugin? Please distinguish between actual VA / FM synths and Physical Modelling.
Or do you record your own bass playing / hire someone?

If you vote for a plugin, please specify which one.

[vurt]

a few of the above layered thanks

[Mighty_Hero]

C is my vote

[snareSpanker]

And D is MY note..

[Har]

If I want something that sounds like a "real" bass, I'll just play one of my real basses or Chapman Stick, usually using a SansAmp BassDriver DI on the way in.
Recently I've also taken to creating my own bass loops in Live4 using them, which can be fun.

If I'm going for something more synthetic, I'll either process the living daylights out of the basses or Stick (if I need that kind of sound), or go to actual synths...but as for which one, I really don't have a 100% go-to preference: I'll use whatever happens to sound best for the song at hand. Somtimes that might be something like RGC's Triangle II, other times it might be MinimoogV, or any other one really...I can usually get some kind of satisfactory bass sound (for what I want, anyway) out of most synths.

[mrspecial]

i typically run an electric bass through a DI box intot he line input of my soundcard. that with some WAve's maxxbass, and it turns out prettty damn nice.
if im too lazy for that though, i typically use FL Slayer's BAss:Punch preset, which is just awesome

[vurt]

I'll just play my Chapman Stick,

[Ojuzu]

While my primary instrument is fretless bass and I've been playing bass in bands for years, I very rarely play and record a real bass. This is primarily due to the difficulty in getting a good/professional bass sound.

I use Trilogy for all of my real electric and acoustic bass needs and a lot of my synth bass needs. About half the time I'll actually write the bassline on my bass but I'll eventually end up programming it in Cubase SX. This way, not only does it sound phatter and more professional but it's also tempo independent so I don't have to worry about re-recording anything if I decide to alter the song's tempo.

Ojuzu

[digitaldoom]

try the Novation BassStation

[Warmonger]

VA almost all the time, although I'll throw in some sampled acoustic basses once in a blue moon. I like the extremely filtered, subsonic bass sounds that are little more than a pure sine wave for most of my music, and only rarely will I do any complex basses.

[Rajah]

Broomstick Bass... also product of the year..

[ztutz]

Almost always layer physical plucked string with some nasty synth thing...

[plastique]

A,D,E,F

[androidlove]

"sample a single(?) bass note and pitch it"

I use SF.

I'm so glad no one has said they use pre-made loops. Those things scare me.

[IIRs]

Where's the hardware synth option? Most of my fave bass patches live in my Micro Modular..