Good Bass Enhancer Plugins?

[itsNano]

Hey guys, i'm looking for some plugins to enhance my basses, i'm preferably looking at the sub bass region. Any good compressors out there or waves plugins recommendations?

[cryophonik]

Waves RenBass, or MaxxBass.

Maybe Waves LoAir? Never used it, so not sure.

[Tricky-Loops]

Have you tried this one? I think it's one of the best free bass enhancer plugins:

http://music.service-1.de/html/bass_enhancer.html

[Tricky-Loops]

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[Davias]

There is one from Christian Budde, can really add a natural round fat low end. But is unstable on my system and I need to bounce and hope for good result or live with it and have my sound exploding at one time, damaging my woofers and my hears...

There is Terry West plugs that can do an interesting job too...

Cannot remember other one now except commercial plugs but I will not talk about the usual suspects.

I will follow this thread since bass enhancement is crucial for me

[Robmobius]

I like using this and it's very cheap.

http://www.overtonedsp.co.uk/download/d ... index.html

[Halma]

Yeah, Terry West did one. And I would definitely try Bootsy's stuff which is free also.

Thrillseeker XTC (enhancer) & ThrillseekerLA (comp with additional saturation option) & maybe BootEQ mkII (try LF cut in eq section + LF boost in amp section) might be for you and can be downloaded from here.

Maybe you should also look for some EQ like the Pultec which can boost & cut (attentuate) the same frequency at once. This can give you some pretty tight and powerful results.

Cheers,
Sebastian

[manducator]

I love Voxengo LF Max Punch:

http://www.voxengo.com/product/lfmaxpunch/

[itsNano]

thanks a lot guys! i'll be sure to do some research before i decide to buy something, but meanwhile, thanks for posting the good freebies!

[rsntr]

do you mind if I ask for what kind of things you might need a bass enhancer? IMO you only need those plug ins if a recording of a "real" instrument (synths are real, aren't they?) is messed up. for basses created with a sampler or a synthesizer it's usually more effective to modify the patch or stack sounds. To quote DJ Premier:

"If the low end of a [loop] sample isn't really heavy, I'll always follow the exact bass line of the song and put that [a low frequency synth part] underneath. A lot of people ask me what EQ I use to get the bottom end of my samples to come through so strongly, but I'm like 'Man, it's not EQ! I'm playing the same notes verbatim"

[Dean Aka Nekro]

I am rather fond of refuse's Lowender, Its fully native now so doesn't require pluggo runtine plus priced very fairly: http://www.refusesoftware.com/lowender.html, The good old mda subsynth free gem also still gets quite a lot of (ab)use here along with both Waves maxxbass and renbass.

I've not tried some of the options mentioned, The Voxengo offering looks really good Manducator, Thanks for the heads up on that one (Shows how clued up I stay on everything ). I do wish you well mate and apologize that it has been along time just to say hello...That's just life for me though

All the best to all as always

Dean

[GeckoYamori]

There are many ways to add some extra low-end, but processing a sound source that may not have a lot of bass in the first place is usually one of the worse solutions. Rather than compressors or equalizers you could use one of those plugins that act like a sub-oscillator and calculate which "undertones" to add to the signal. Or you could just layer the sound in question with an extra sine wave and shape the envelopes accordingly.