Grate Bass Lite

Grate Bass Lite is a virtual instrument for Native Instruments Kontakt giving you usual and unusual scratchy sounds of an electric bass played with a pick. Grate Bass Lite is the free version of Grate Bass (which features three more sound patches and four additional effects). 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:

• Free version of Grate Bass.

• Two playing styles: Normal picking and scratching fast along strings.

• Separate volume control for DI and Mic signal.

• Note Attack and Release time control.

• Effects: Distortion, Bass Amp Simulation (4×10) and Reverb.

• Total number of samples: 792 (@44.1 kHz/24-bit, mono).