Grate Bass

Grate Bass is a virtual instrument for Native Instruments Kontakt giving you usual and unusual scratchy sounds of an electric bass played with a pick. The output of the bass was recorded using a DI and in addition a large diaphragm condenser microphone was pointed 30 cm above the neck to record the scratchy pick sounds separately:

• Five playing styles from normal to scratchy picking and playing with a piece of paper stuck between strings.
• Separate volume control for DI and Mic signal.
• Note Attack and Release time control.
• Effects: Distortion, Bass Amp Simulation (4×10), Reverb, Chorus, Lo-Fi, Tremolo and Vibrato.
• Total number of samples: 1,980 (@44.1 kHz/24-bit, mono).