How to get that CLANKY METAL BASS tone. TUTORIAL!
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- Опубліковано 8 чер 2024
- Let's get really dirty and brootal!
German Metal producer Kristian Kohle shows you how to nail a killer metal basstone with just one plugin and his custom Impulse Responses!
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Dirty Dängle Lovers! Who's in love with the Mammoth? Or what do you use?
I just bought the Mammoth but currently i'm using the CLABass + Softube Saturation Knob (keep low mode), heavy multiband compression and EQ (static and dynamic).
In the past i've also used the BassGrinder Vst.
Darkglass Microtubes X Ultra... Love it!
Great plugin!! Just tried the demo version of the plugin on my mix that i am currently working on and it made the current bass sound a lot better in a matter of minutes. Definitely Dängles it more! Great job Aurora DSP! And thank you Kohle for the absolutely great content!
I am currently vey much enamored with The Neural DSP Parallax
This tone is cool. The plugin might also be useful for some other sound design stuff I like to do. For bass I use a Darkglass B7k pedal and an Axe-FX III.
if you are a bass player, being able to get a clanky tone with your fingers is the most valuable skill to learn for rock/heavy music. imo...
I always thought it depends on the song sometimes I would switch between pick and fingers in the middle of the song
If you're a bass player, being able to use your ears and play what sounds good for the song instead of sticking only to what bass gatekeepers approve... That's pure gold!
@@RaulRieraS i now play bass for my friend's black metal band... i can only get the sound i want with a pick lol. other than long tremolos, fingers tend to make the band sound bigger
@@Aio-Project try picking closer to the neck. Many people pluck with fingers closer to the "P" pickup position but when using a plectrum they pick too further back towards the bridge making it sound less bodied.
Good pick technique (for metal) sounds unbelievably similar to Steve Harris doing his thing.
(Before the flames begin people, check the many UA-cam videos about it and get angry at life, not at me 😅).
By the way your original comment is spot on. Too many rock and metal bass players mistakenly believe they "should" be playing with their fingers, but their plucking is just weak, making the entire band sound dull.
@@RaulRieraS yeah i feel like too many bassists i see gave up on finger style too early. regardless of which technique, ive heard a lot of local metal bands where bassists just sound harsh
as for the closer to the neck or bridge, i find that the faster the subdivisions, the more playing close to the bridge helps. closer to the neck is more percussive and deep, but if you go too fast over the neck its easy to lose the pitch of the note. closer to the bridge the pick attack and the note can both be heard.
in general i find that fingers offer a lot more control over articulation. you can slap the string into the fingerboard and get a fast attack, or you can really grip the string for slower attack to make the band sound huge on the big accents
but you sound like you know a thing or two haha
As the wise philosopher Beavis once told us, "The angle of the dangle is inversely proportional to the heat of the meat." and if you want a meaty bass tone, you have to have the dangle. Its science.
Having a bald head like Nolly is scientifically proven to help too. It wards away the sharp frequencies, and guides you towards the brutalest tone possible.
It makes perfect sense
Haha! Perfect!
@@KohleAudioKult I'm starting to think that there is a correlation between beard size, baldness, and how good of a metal bass tone you can get.
@@camdendebruin6667 That's why I wear a beanie! Don't wanna get too smart!
"you need a good sounding bass guitar"
me with my korean knockoff p-bass: this should do
Or that one donner bass that sells to beginners that costs like $80
I have an 80 dollar bass from Amazon that I can't even fund anymore and there's no brand on it
Or any of the rogue basses except the fretless one
Massive Metal Bass Tones with Kristian! Love it my friend!
You should do a metal episode on your channel with Kohle!
Marvellous.
^ 😂
when he made the bass go "dangle dangel dun dun dun"
...that spoke to me ;o;
so you use the non dängle settings, play with old strings and no pick? ;)
@@KohleAudioKult lol sadly i had to sell my Sterling bass because of pandemic....but to compensate I get to experiment with some massive guitar tones VIA Omega Granophyre plugin which has ungodly levels of low end
One of the best bass guitar sounds I've ever heard!
It's basically a darkglass sound
Must have shit in your ears.
That tone is atrocious.
Mind officially 🤯
It's that perfect mix of low-end punch and high-end clank
I’m just gonna leave this here... Neural DSP Parallax plugin
Facts, best thing out there
I first saw this plugin on Glen Fricker's channel, and while Glen did a good overview, I think you've knocked this one out of the park in terms of the "how and why" of dialing in this sort of tone. +1 subscriber.
Welcome!
Killing it dude. Love all the output from you lately. Bass is my favorite part of writing. Glues it all together and makes it sound brutal and gnarly. Keep it up 🤘
Same here! + you can get away with a more sloppy (or let's call it charismatic) playing
Until now I´ve had so many problems with getting a tight, "grunty" bass tone. The result was often a mix of to much compression and therefore lowend mud + too much distortion which doesn´t cut through the mix (pink noise against guitar pink noise)
I´ve just tried the trial version of it and OMG, the sound just cuts through like butter.
It even sounds a bit like the bass sound from "Prayer Position" by Periphery which I absoluetly adore!
Thanks for letting me know of this plugin dude!
Nollys play through of Prayer Position = ERECTION
You're my favorite person on UA-cam right now, and you're making my tracks sound BR00000000000000000TALLLL!!! Thank you for all the FREE content!!!
Great to hear that! Much love and dängle from Germany!
@@KohleAudioKult Dängle on Wayne!!
Dirty, grinding, cutting, distorted bass 🤟🏻John Entwistle was ahead of his time
First off, really happy to see more Fernandes guitars and basses through your videos, always loved them. And I loved the bass video you made for the URM guys so I am glad you gave us another take on getting that tone! Thank you!
too bad Fernandes are gone!
@@KohleAudioKult still available in Japan.
Really appreciate you brother. Your really good at doing these videos . Very informative and love your whole vibe man.
the dangle . I've always tried to explain that tone and dangle is perfect. love it.
You make 2020 so much cooler. Thank you!
Whenever Kohle says Dängle, I get "Werner Beinhart"-Flashbacks... Only the germans will know.
Ja Meister, i had the same flashbacks. I`m from the Netherlands and living to the German border, my late dad was a German so i know tis movie as well! Great movie btw! Ich glaub die Russen sind da! Hau wech die scheisse, prost! ;-)
Das hatte ich gar nicht mehr auf dem Schirm! Geilo!
Haha same :D
Ja, ja..
@@MellonVegan Ja, ja, heisst leck mich am arch! :-P ;-)
Awesome. I always play with a pick. Can't finger pick all that well and I get more attack and bite using picks. Really works for the sort of tone here. Low clean thumpy bass, mid growl and gank. Great vid man.
Amazing bass tone, thanks for sharing your knowledge!!!
I bought Mammoth after watching you and Glenn's review of it, and I REALLY love the dängle-preset of yours on there! It sounds killer and brought my mixes to the next level!
Thank you Kristian for the word on the Mammoth plugin! Used it with your IR on a recent production ... before I had been creating the same effect, but with 2 bass channels (DI + Amp) & a sub-bass channel which sounded ...similar... but the Mammoth plugin achieves the exact same result, makes it so much easier, and the bass cuts through the mix even better honestly! Absolutely awesome with fresh strings!
MY GOD! What a tone. Absolutely killer!
Love the DI tone. Thank you for the tips! Also thanks for the presets on Mammoth.
So important in metal is to have a solid sounding bass tone, great vid!
Nice, I've always wanted to get that piano like bass tone!
Bro your making the most helpful videos for metal, Thank You
Thanks man! Spread the word!
Awesome information! and what a song, love when the slow melody kicks in... love it!!! I follow you because of URM academy, I am a composer and started as a producer too. Mr, Kohle have become in one of my favourites creative producers, huge inspiration. Best regards from México!
Much love from Germany! Thanks man! Glad you found me.
I got Mammoth a month ago and it's amazing. Only bass plugin I need. Awesome video.
Brutal defined tone. Nice job 👍
Kohl - you have the most informative music production channel on YT. Please keep it up with the tutorials / techniques / production tips.
I’m sick of watching FAQ videos 🤣
Don't worry. I'm just getting started!
But maybe I should do my very first FAQ video too?
I got this plugin for my phone and it sounds unbelievable. Totally changed my mix.
Currently I'm a guitarist, planning to play bass in a band I'm starting with a good friend. This video's a great point of reference. Also I got into heavy music through punk first as a teen, so there's no stigma when it comes to playing with a pick ;)
Cheers again for the tips!
Jawoll! Endlich ein deutscher Musikanten UA-camr, der Humor hat und akzentfrei englisch spricht. Mehr davon. Ick bin ein Dängliner.
Akzentfrei halt ich zwar fürn'n Greücht, aber geilo! Ich geb hier schön Gas in Zukunft.
Great explanations, I will experiment further.
Love the Mammoth plugin!! I got it as a preorder when it wasn’t even out yet. Awesome video as always Kohle, but we already know that 😉
Waiting for the ultimate Kohle IR pack to destroy them all!
So looking forward to that one!!
In the works for early 2021!
incredible vid !!! appreciate the education .. thats clear cut, tested n tested, info liil
Great stuff Mr Kohle! Bought the plugin very soon after I toyed with the demo. Your tips make this plugin sound even better! Dängle on!
Great to hear that! I will! ❤️🍺
Hört sich sehr gut an 🥳🤛
Setzt sich in jedem Mix durch
Amazing tutorial. Cheers from Stockholm.
Mostly 9 of the 10 plugins i buy don't work as promised but this one makes me very happy. It is wurth the money. Thank you for this video and sorry for my bad englisch.
Love the channel.
Cheers
"you need a good sounding bass guitar, which you can't download"
*Laughs in Submission Audio Djinn Bass*
Oh damn! Brave new world!
@@KohleAudioKult actually nowdays you CAN download good sounnding bass ))
@jhan bass really? You still don't know good sounding vsti basses?
@jhan bass that's means you just don't know how to program bass
@@timonbutcherman well...EZbass....if you don't have a bass guitar, you can play your electric guitar and EZbass does an excellent job making it sound like a REALLY good bass guitar, FACT
Love the fact, that they gave me an update with your IRs since I already purchased it. Huge thanks to aurora dsp and of course to you Kristian. Love your content!
You're welcome! Enjoy!
Great Killer Bass Tone. I bought this Plugin yesterday cause of your intruduction. Cheers Karsten
What do you think about using plugin waves Bass rider as the first one?
Goddangle ,thats a nice sounding bass btw!
Anyway great video, learning so much from this channel, keep it up!
That's some proper bass tone!! Fckn awesome \m/
I love the blue!
Thanks kohle love your tips
Totally makes sense watching this! All bassists should have this tone! Mixes easily and sounds good matching the guitarist’s volume too. Awesome video my friend 🤘🤘🤘🤘Definitely a brilliant video with valuable information!
Kristian is delivering gold...As usual!
Great tips man! Love the tone!
TWO metal bass videos!?!? Thanks for sharing your secrets of the dangle with us!!!
I always default to all knobs on the bass cranked like I do on my guitars. I also usually stay with the bridge pickup. I'm going to have to re-think this approach!
Definitely making mixing much easier!
Thanks my German brother! 🤘🏼👹🤘🏼
Kick ass tone - thanks!
Wooow, just Woooooooow, it's cristal clear explenation to get that FAT sound, thank you very much
This video is soo usefull, thanksss
cool plugin!, yes I thinking the same about clanky tone, new strings and pick! but i use the UAD svt classic for that and now thanks to you ill use the mammoth plugin, sounds pretty sick, thanks!
Vielen vielen Dank Kristian!
I bought Mammoth last week. Sick plugin. I'm gonna try your IR tomorrow :)
Sounds mega amazing, I must have this plagin
Great sound Man, thanks and hug from São Paulo 🤘😉🎸
Great video !!! Great tone !!!
Awesome tone !
Thanks Kristian! Great!!
As always a great video. i did this with parallax by neural dsp and i got a brutal and great Tone! best channel for recording and producing metal.
Parallax is nice too! I agree.
Been toying with the idea of buying this plugin for a while now! Just bought it! Prost!
"Pick good"
[generally positive mumbling]
"Fingers bad"
[angry dislike noises]
Good job, good tone, good bang bang.
I love how just a Jazz bass with both pickups and tone at 100% sound for Metal
"it's more metal to play with a pick", idk the last Archspire record had one of the best ever captured bass tones and Jared Smith plays with his fingers
There are always exceptions. I also got a great bass tone on the last Aborted records.
But why use your fingers when you can use a hammer?
@@KohleAudioKult what if your fingers ARE hammers?!
ua-cam.com/video/luTYeNdArDY/v-deo.html ;]
@@joaoalcantara6676 that's a funny song name
@@Mikey__R the hard fingerstyle where you’re just slamming the strings down instead of doing rest strokes can get those metal attacks like you would use a pick for alongside thick tones, you might be onto something B)
this video is awesome. as a punk/metal bass player ive always gone after that clank dangle dangle sound and this nails it perfectly. I hate having conversations with other bass players about "real bass is played with fingers blah blah"
It just depends on what you want to achieve and what you’re good at. I honestly enjoy fingers the most, and it’s what I’m best at. I would like to be able to reasonably play with a pick, but I just ain’t there with my muting 😂
Habe oft Probleme einen geilen Bass Sound für meine Songs zu finden aber das Plugin ist ja mal perfekt! Keine unnötigen Knöpfe oder irgendwas verkompliziertes. Mega!
Absolut! Bissi unübersichtlich durch das Layout, aber klanglich geil.
Thanks. Making a big differcene!
Bruuutal! Great plugin! I have too!
*stares in Alex Webster* lol boosting the high end on the bass preamp is a great tip, thanks for the video.
Been looking for something like this video for what seems like forever yet UA-cam algorithms keep suggesting worlds dumbest criminals 🤷♂️🤦♂️ definitely a new subscriber 🤘🤘🤘
Welcome! ❤️🍺🤘
Wow, i am testing the trail version of the mammoth. Sounds realy cool. Thanks for the vid and greetings from Freiburg! :)
Fantastic content Kohle!
FINALLY!!! THANK YOU MAN
Great tone Kristian. Do you generally not high pass your bass in a mix, or is it a situational/tuning thing for you? Thanks in advance love your videos.
Thanks!
In the past, I have double tracked the bass DI but put a Wampler Leviathan pedal on one of them. Its made for guitar but sounds unreal on bass. Mixing the two with a little compression gave me what I'm after and sounds very similar.
Killer tone... and killer video (again)!!!!!!!
Thank you Christian-Cola!
Gerade gekauft und ausprobiert. Das Dängle Preset ist richtig klasse geworden!
Funktioniert also! Prima!
Mommoth, the Parallax killer. Sounds even better an is way more versatile. Thank U for showing!
At first i thought i would'nt choose that bass tone. But in the mix it sounded fuckin' awesome!
Cheers from Portugal 🍺🤘
I like that intro
"This is about that... Ding ding ding ding djng"
Ill adopt it 😜😜
Wow. another great video Kohle! thanks so much for doing a bass tone video. it seems to get overlooked a lot and is so crucial to building a good guitar sound. Not gonna lie, i got really excited the other day when i saw i had an email from Kohle! made me all warm and tingly inside... and thirsty for some beer! as always, you rule!! i'm gonna go smoke a cigarette now.
Haha! You're welcome.
And yes, cigarettes are very metal! just ask Lemmy. I wish I would smoke! ;)
Super nice video! I will try Mammoth (I just download the trial). I may buy it this weekend!
Love this video! I think you could do more videos on drum recording, mic choices etc.
Oh yeah! Sure!
@@KohleAudioKult Maybe a beginners mic recording kit for drums? or how to record drums on budget. Anything like that would be cool!
You can get a pretty clanky Bass tone useing fingerstyle if you don't push through the strinhs but rather hit them pretty hard from the top so the string hits the highest fret. Sounds different from pick playing but still a pretty nice sound ;)
Exactly, you can get almost slap sounds. The speed and power from the fingers you can't achieve from the short pec distance
Kristian, what are your thoughts on the use of synthetic sub/low end generators in a mix to reinforce the low end, like JST Sub Destroyer or similar? Great videos man! Your one of my favorites!
I think the key point is the stainless steel strings. Before watching this video I didn't know how important they are. I couldn't find prosteel or Warwick where I live but Markbass energy series have worked pretty well. I don't use the mammoth but I used the same tricks explained in this video in Amplitube and it worked. So, in short: This video changed my life and I get the DANGLE DANGLE tone I was seeking for a long time. thank you man. 😊
One quick update. Seems that I am having hard times to get the clanky tone on my E string while I get it on A string. I get a woody - a bit disturbing sound instead on E string. What could be the reason? Ibanez sgr300 4 strings. Markbass stainless steel. A bit low action like 2-2.5 mm ( tried higher and a bit more lower but its getting worse) any toughts?
Tbh I haven't heard better DANGLE of the bass than the one on Decapitated's "Organic Hallucinosis", which was played with fingers...
...but Martin Rygiel used to play flamenco on classical guitar when he was a student of his music school :)
Trve! Everyone needs a flamenco bassist!
My fingers are quite good at getting that "dängle" thing! Hahahahahaha (great video!)
Awesome
love all your info! Very helpful to me as a metal bassist. I wanna say 2 things though: If you haven't tried them yet, give Sadowsky Black Label Steel strings a try. They sound a little bit less bright than DAddario Pro Steels for example but for me, they hardly change their tone. I just love them. Pro Steels I wanted to change after like 2 weeks (not recording, just playing) or 4 weeks at the latest. The Black Labels stay on for months and keep sounding great.
And about playing approach: absolutely true that a pick will give you more clank, no question about it. It's not really a big deal to make a bass sound metal when playing fingerstyle though either. What you have to do is adjust your technique for metal (don't play like a pop, funk, whatever player) by not plucking in parallel to the body but hitting towards the body and make the strings bounce off the frets like with slap and of course you have to adjust your bass' setup to match your playing technique. Then it's very simple.
Finally! Get that Kohle tone!