Where do you get your bass?

[edelweiss]

40% Real P-bass
40% hardware synth bass
20% virtual synth bass

and always, 100%, never fail "Baxxpander"....

Find it here...

http://www.uv.es/%7Eruizcan/p_vst.htm

[cptgone]

Recording farts is fun but you really need a wind shield.

[The Chase]

Who can honestly say they use ONLY ONE of the given options?

[declassified]

and always, 100%, never fail "Baxxpander"....

Thanks for the recommendation! Beefs up my sampled contrabass notes a bit

Who can honestly say they use ONLY ONE of the given options?

Actually I just wanted to know which you use most.

[The Chase]

I create my dark, gurgly jungle Bass in cooledit, my sub-bass comes from an 808 kick with loop points, and everything else is via VST.

[AD80]

Who can honestly say they use ONLY ONE of the given options?

I can. Trilogy.

[grooves1200]

what har didn't mention is that he is going to do a big roundup of bass vst instruments for the spring issue of grooves: broomstick bass, hardcore bass, trilogy, majestic, and hopefully virtual bassist. i know it'll be a couple of months away so it won't be immediately useful, but we'll see if any of them can approach his beloved stick.

sean

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.

[Ja.x]

In the past I used VB-1 and Bb303i, but lately I use mainly DaHornet

[neverwhere2012]

when i want super crazy low end, i find Hollowsun's Jen bass pedal samples and Taurus bass samples work quite well. beyond that, subharmonic synths tend to work well... been getting the subbass plugin in logic to do pretty good things for me as i don't really have any more i/o left to hook up my dbx110.

[hitman8081]

Who can honestly say they use ONLY ONE of the given options?

thats a dumb comment. many people including me just use VA'S ive found the best bass synth. at least for me. i use only wasp XT it realy can do realy good bass of any genre. also low in cpu it doesnt get the credit it deserves. like bones once said people here jump all around looking for a good bass vst when the same sounds can be easily sqeezed out of wasp XT

[Green Red Brownell]

40% Real P-bass
40% hardware synth bass
20% virtual synth bass

and always, 100%, never fail "Baxxpander"....

Find it here...

http://www.uv.es/%7Eruizcan/p_vst.htm

Is Baxxpander for real?? I have looked for it before without success, and this link doesn't seem to work. Doe sit work for anyone else?

Thanks!

[ouroboros]

it's an eloxga plug, but I believe the site is temporarily down. I think. It was up recently.

[uncadave]

one of my favorite bass sounds and the one i use most often lately is vb1 with baxxpander as an insert followed by waves raxx compressor. i'm in love with bass sounds from slayer2, also, and from dalpha2k and from fm7.....man, there are alot of nice bass sounds out there.

[Lunch Money]

I don't have Cubase to test it out, but I could have sworn most people said that vb1 was god-awful. That explains all the effects needed to make it sound sweet!

[Mental Audio Deviations]

95 % bass guitar
5% various freeware synths
Just starting out on this synth-thing, so not really good at programming/editing yet.