How To Get A CRUSHING Bass Tone!
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- Опубліковано 18 чер 2024
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Today I show you how to dial a CRUSHING bass guitar tone for heavy music!
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It's like making cookies - the recipe calls for flour, water, sugar, vanilla, etc. - YOU have to decide if you want nuts in it, chocolate chips, raisins, peanut butter, if you want them to be crispy or soft, sweeter or more savory, how much of everything. I can't tell you what your tastes are, only what will happen if you turn one knob one way or the other.
Gear Gods I just think your strings are a bit old. Otherwise good vid
They were like, reasonably fresh, but if you're recording it's always smart to put brand new ones on.
Very well stated.
Great tutorial by the way!
dayum that was poetic AF
Munchies increasing exponentially....to the master limiter!!!!!
My bass player is sitting in the corner and won't move. Any tips?
My bass player is sitting in the corner and won't move. Any tips?
Gear Gods my pass blayer is corting in the sitmove and wont, tipsy an?
Put a beer in the middle of the room, 100% of the times bass players will go for it
Just kick it a few times. It should start.
lol!!! Im a bassist. Bring it !!!!! @@LeifEkbergh
If you have a passive p bass with old strings:
Low bass - 10
High bass - 6
Low mid - 6
High mid - 10
Low treble - 10
High treble - 10
I promise you won't regret this setting
god bless you
@@fuzzfiend
I still run my bass this way with the same set of old strings
You have low and high treble and bass?
@@lamblatte8139
A good amp will have at least a 6 band equalizer
@@philcollinshill2951 What should you do if you only have 4 band?
Don't forget to feed your bass player donuts
I see, another man of taste!
Then, you will have better and fatter low end.
and compress the donuts so the fatness is consistent
The fatter the bassist, the fatter the tone!
That's a fat bass tone, a crushing bass tone has to be given love notes.
If we are living in the Matrix all of your analog gear is actually digital
best comment 2018
@@treyxaviermusic by far
Hahahahahahahahahaha
Wow! That just really messed with my head. I sat for several moments as I pondered the concept. I think that is one of those thoughts that put your brain in zen mode.........or something.
I saw something similar, but it was this amp (all in one amp+cab) that had a screen like this and you could choose different distortion and effects. It was pretty fun to play on
Man, it sounds SO DAMN GOOD in that full mix
It does, Patrick. 👌🏼
And never, NEVER forget to change your strings!!! That might be the most important aspect of a good metal/djent bass tone.
Shorty Ubk not even just metal, man...most genres benefit from fresh strings
Shorty Ubk ive just changed my strings, should I change my strings? And after that I’d better change them again. Just following your rules!
And string type. Don't use tapewound if you want that "clank."
You can put NEW string on this thing??
@@Nocturnimancer Shht, that's our biggest secret for years. :D
Jazz bass + Tech21 BDDI v1. Cut both bass and treble to 10 o'clock. 60% to 40% wet-to-dry blend ratio. perfection
That's the one I got. When the venue gives me XLR cable, I'm am instantly good to go.
You can tell how the role of bass in metal is critical, when you hear a track with bass and the same track without
Mmmmmmmetalica
Great video man! I learned a lot.
For me the real MVP of this video (besides you of course) was the Line6 Helix...what a pedalboard! Great sounds and so versatile. Insane how far we've come.
The hardest thing about getting a great BASS sound I’ve found is getting the GUITARISTS to switch off their egos and work with the rest of the band.
Most guitarist run too much distortion period.
The rule of thumb for all guitarists or bass players is;-
What sounds great when you dial up a sound by yourself is often overkill in a live/band setting.
buy an 8x10 and actually be heard....
That must be why as a guitarist wanting to learn bass I bought a Dingwall n3, 6 string, Darkglass microtube and the Parralax plug-in. Tons of distortion. 😂
i used this to adapt it to an amp and pedal setup and it sounds so good, thank you
Why have I not spent more time on your chanel?!? You are a great educator!
Glad you took the time to lay out what every plug-in, is doing in the chain.
Exactly the vid i needed to see today, thank you guys!
Loved the end result, Tray, thanks man!
Good description of the low/high separation. Watched a few of these vids and never truly understood why the low end was more of a DI and higher was the nasty gritty, makes more sense now.
I would like to see a comparison of the mix with this tone vs just the bass through an amp/amp sim, I think that would clear up a lot of questions of why do this a lot of folks have.
The Helix is really what I want, I actually tried to make a similar tone by using Guitar Rig 5 Demo, and it's Awesome
Thanks for this video, very informative, really helpful..appreciate it 🤜🤛
A GREAT primer on creating the right tone, excellent
Great results and super informative 🙏🙏🙏🤘
Thank you for this video. Simple and effective!
Gettin my first bass tomorrow.. search for a tone tutorial..find a helix.. yayyyyy.. now I'll make the most out of my helix, hopefully.. thanks alotttt
I feel like the bass was overpowering the guitars in the final mix. The bass tone itself was great and the dual tone set-up works well, but it sounded like the bass' levels were too high.
yeah I mean I cranked the bass up a lot just so you could hear it, in a real mix you wouldn't have it that high
JUST THE WAY I LIKE IT
@@treyxaviermusic idk i liked it like that alot of bands have it unrealistically quiet
@@Buhhhhhh-xi4ju in a lot of genres you generally want the kick drum to be one of the loudest things in the mix, which is accomplished through EQ instead of turning up the volume. A lot of the time the kick is EQ’ed lower than the bass which sits just above in the mix, but adding in guitars which are extremely mid-heavy and generally more searched-for in the listening experiences of rock and metal ends up muddying the bass. Not enough low end or mid range unfortunately buries it but makes the band sound better as a whole, it does suck though because bass in a live setting is a completely different experience from listening to a lot of recordings
@@tylerlennon9955 a really mid boosted guitar takes up too much space in the sound spectrum. Listen to older more scooped metal albums and you can actually hear everything going on, take pantera for example, dimes tone was scooped nasty and mean but it really gets people going and you hear every note from all 4 guys. broad midrange doesn't really get people going because it's boring and vanilla. People want extreme sounds because they fit a more extreme emotional content better. Modern metal production gets really boring after 3 songs even if they're good. It doesn't get people going when you neuter the shit out of the bass for the sake of your mix sounding clean. Normies don't care about that shit at all, only other mix engineers give a damn about that and they arent your target audience anyway. Especially in a live environment if you arent pushing lots of depth and oomph then people lose interest. besides this is heavy metal, it's meant to be filthy and brutal sounding.
Im a Rock/Blues Guy (Older than probably most of you) Thanks for the tips. I used to use a Crossover and Two amps to Do this sort of thing...(Along with lots of Pedals). Just started Using Helix thanks for pointing Me in the right Direction.
awesome! I try it and sounds amazing!
love the explanation, easy to understand for people like me, a bigginer. Thanx a lot
I really like this! I feel that every 'how to' videos are very subjective and is down to the style of which you or your band is playing. For this, this works...
For years i wasnt found of the modern clanky bass tone, untill i tried it at rehearsal with the band.
Turn the bass all the way up, and keep the volume low-ish, then youll always feel the bass, and when you hit a high note with attack, it just cuts right through.
Best of both worlds imo
I don't have a Line 6. I have used a similar approach by using an Eden WT-600 for the low end of the spectrum with a good amount of compression and clean. I then use a Carvin Quad X preamp on channel 2 for the uncompressed highs. My bass has a ton of output with naturally overdrives the preamp with a "fuzzy" distortion. They are on separate channels and I mix/blend accordingly. The Tech 21 dUg Pinnick DP-3X pedal has this feature built in. That is an inexpensive option for those who gon'y have a Helix or something similar. Lastly, YOU ARE SO Correct in that separating the bass from the treble frequencies of the bass tone with clean compressed low frequencies and uncompressed and slightly fuzzed treble signals will cut through the fix so that one's bass playing can very easily be distinguished compared to traditional bass guitar EQing. Especially for guitar heavy music genres. You demo is on point!!!
Great video,..well explained!
Yes, moar bass in the mix! Makes it heavy!
THX , Great Info!
hi/lo pass + parallel :o
thanks for the info 🙌🙌
Sounded really good in the mix, modern pre amps like dark glass, sansamp etc do a better job than fuzz imo but depends what you’re after
11:18 I've always said that bass is important because it's a supporting instrument, if your house doesn't have any support them your walls can't stand, and if your walls can't stand then the roof falls down.
This is a great video; will be using this for my recordings!
Is there a similar one for a good metal guitar tone?!
line6 had the worst tone in the market and now their new product is one of the best amp sims? Glenn have to make a fearless gear review!!
Carlos Costa idk, the XT and X3 series were pretty solid, but the HD series is the exact opposite of ahead of the competition haha. they even sound worse than the aforementioned 2 older models, in some aspects. it’s more like the POD series began improving, and decided to take the piss and become the HD series for a while just to make the Helix seem that much better sounding.
No no no..... You were thinking of the Spider amp. Literally everything else they make sounds good but, they've made so many Spider amps that most people don't wont even LOOK at another Line 6 product.
actually I have no idea. I only know that there are better alternatives in the market. I'm just actually very impressed that they made that product.
PODs always sounded good on bass. Tons of producers still use POD Farm for bass stuff.
THANK YOUUU PROFESSOR XAVIER!!!
You want a good bass tone get a sansamp or darkglass
James Alva real talk
They're great alright, but every one and their mother is using one nowadays, it's become really generic unfortunately
Guy Dude it’s annoying cause it’s the tone I love but you want to stand out as well haha
oh yeah just buy more shit that's the answer, don't bother actually learning something, HOW DARE YOU TEACH US TREY GTFO
I tried a Sansamp and any amount of drive added to it just sounded farty and terrible.
Simplifying things... What I did without splitting the signal was: Washburn RB2000 through a Sansamp RBI with drive pushed, got the clean signal out of it through a Peavey PVi 2500 on one channel, and the dirt signal connected to the other Peavey channel. From the power amp I drove the Bass/clean power output through a 15" cabinet, and the full/dirt power output through a 2×10" + horn cabinet. Just add more cabinets to your own taste...
The colors of your neck and face are significantly different somehow
I think what he means is- you need some sun man.
If I go outside I won't finish editing videos for you guys
Makeup
who cares?
@@bradkneale7580 exactly does these people pointing out other peoples faults or differences have low self esteem and no brain.
Good video, been dialing in my heavier sound, did not follow the technique I used in the studio with my pedals. Need to pull the growl off of the low end, especially since I get it naturally from my bass pre-amp and amp.
My personal favourite is to get an EBS Billy Sheehan signature drive and a Marshall RG-1. Put the RG-1 on your clean loop and tool about with the settings to suit your bass. For me, with a Yamaha BB425X on the bridge or neck pickup setting it has a really nice distorted tone and the RG-1 adds metric fucktonnes of depth to the lows and lower mids.
The result is pretty good but I'm wondering why you didn't use the x-over split instead of A/B split and two dedicated low/high cuts. Saves DSP and space in the patch.
This way you can dial in the low and high end independently and have them overlap. I think the cross over split can’t do that.
Sounds Baddas🤘🏻
Its sounds so cool with the mix tho
I run a similar setup on my axe-fx for bass but speaking from experience(used to run a sub-bass stingray) the massive humbuckers are almost too much output. It's hard to properly gain stage a sting ray for a gritty bass tone that still has that punchy thump. Passive bass pickups surprisingly work a lot better for that style in my experience. Precision/Jazz combo or Jazz would sound killer on that patch.
Great demo! Maybe it's possible to do something close using multiband effects? I mean multiband distortion and multiband compressor. Of course those effects are very expensive as pedals.
when you said this was for a live situation are you running the helix to FOH or would you split it between FOH and cab/ amp on stage? (if that makes sense)
CRUSHING. Question: If you were going to place modulation effects like chorus or flange, or if you were going to use a delay, where would you place them in a chain like this? I realize much of that is to taste, but what I'm getting at is really, would you want those effects to only be applied to the "high frequency" path, or to BOTH?
10:55 this dude: "the bass is a supporting instrument, it plays a supportive role. Especially in metal"
Jon Stockman from Karnivool: "lol k"
Just dig Lemmy out of his grave, that’ll do the trick.
i had the Helix LT. Just bought the Quad Cortex. Game Changer. Traded a friend my Helix for an PRS S2 Custom 22 and some cash. Just had PRS 59/09 pickups put in it. I feel like it was a good trade. I always run my Bass clean with maybe a clean boost, EQ, and a compressor.
Dear God, the lighting at the beginning made it look like you had some freakish fretted/fretless combo neck
I know im super late to the party lol but i noticed that parallel split EQ; you can actually split the signal on the signal line (i think the default is like A/B balance but you can change it to frequency) did some playing around with freq splitting with dual cabs
Dude that song at the end is really good, what tuning is that in?
Watching this vid makes me feel that any guitar player must know some programming and/or.music theory. Just MUST know.
I like to run the obsidian(darkglass b7k model) it doesn’t require most of the tweaking you had to do. You ended up with a great tone though.
sounds sick, good riff as well, what's the tuning?
Great Video! Any suggestions for hobby musicians on alternatives for the Helix LT to do this? 1.000€ is very expensive when you don't make money from music.
Hey Trey, does the split crossover feature in later Helix iterations render this an 'older way' of doing it? I followed your bass tone for the HX Stomp which did follow that process (split crossover) but the high end signal of the obsidian is not loud at all in my patch and I cannot seem to make it present sounding compared to the low bass path
buy a b7k darkglass and your done :D lol
Well, that sounds basically like the iso'd bass tracks for Purgatory.
Make a video with the Harley Benton you bought in the vid with Pete! Would be sick!
Does line 6 Helix effects model can do the parallel processing? We can do that parallel processing with an amp and 4 cable method?
On the second half of that piece when he moves to the 5th string, that shit was phattt
Nice !
The algorithm never fails to deliver.
Awesome video is it cold in the studio? just kiddin
Great tone, but I'm pretty sure I got the same tone or better with a Squire jazz with Warwick BC10 amp and the incredible Source Audio Aftershock pedal, and don't forget the Rotosound strings (or D'addario NYXL).
Dude ever since I used the nyxl strings slinkies kinda sound like shit comparatively, the only problem is finding the nyxl in 5 string is virtually impossible without using reverb
Excellent!
How to do this with analog pedals?
Is it possible to get this kind of tone on a Fender Rumble 200 amp?
What about a bass tone similar to Knocked Loose and a few other modern metal bands where the bass sounds more boomy and subby but still ball crushingly heavy instead of fuzzy sounding to where it just sounds muddy.
I don't know man. As soon as you removed the bass track towards the end of the video it became so much clearer in a good way. The bass tone was really making the whole mix sound very...cloudy? It sounds really heavy for sure, but if I had to ask someone to TAB that part out by ear, the low notes would be quite indistinguishable. The concept is great of course, but I think the high end needs to play a bit nicer with the guitars, especially with the drop A tuning. If the guitars are only in say, drop D or C, clarity in the low end is going to be less of an issue so I think you will get a little more room for your high end to color the mix. Food for thought.
That ending killed me XD
I was following this to the letter a d was getting something close, until one block appeared on the top line of the signal chain and wasn't explained? Anyone know what he puts in? I'm close to getting this killer sound but think that last block is what I'm probably missing!
Awesome, however the squiggly things on the walls keep tricking my mind into thinking you have some sort of weird Photo Booth effect on the video and then I see the bass and everything else is fine and I'm just like "oh."
Same here!
Thanks for the recipe, man. So!! Bass face engaged 😠
Cool.
Not a fan at all. Run one of the channels through a guitar amp sim for your distortion channel. Sounds way better IMO. Glen Fricker actually did an A/B comparison and the difference in night and day.
Yeah you can do that too. I've done that quite a bit, Marshall type sounds work really good but I wanted something a little more terrifying for this.
Tbh, when you said "clanky high-end" I thought like Periphery-level clanky, like "actually not that pleasant on its own"-clanky. What Nolly did on P3 is extreme, sure, but it fits so well and he gave bass an identity in the mix that goes beyond the support role. Also, the bass didn't really have that much fret noise. Many times, what people perceive as dirt is actually fret noise. Gives the tone a really nice percussive quality.
This demonstrates the above-mentioned perfectly: ua-cam.com/video/-w5qFCT6EZY/v-deo.html
final mix was fantastic, huge difference in the overall sound 😀
Do you use the input pad on in the helix?
Never forget to be a bass player! Loading up on EFX is cool, but you DO have a job to fulfill! Otherwise the band sound can become a mush of battling fuzz boxes!
I just lightly distort the whole signal. Pull out some of the lows before the crunch and then just add it back in after. Too much bass going into distortion sounds bad, but you don't have to split the signal like that to work around it.
The other problem is that you lose a ton of low end with most methods of distorting your tone - you can try and add it back in later, but you can end up boosting frequencies that aren't even there and just wind up with noise
Well I'm not distorting it to the level shown in this video, and honestly this technique that has been popular for the past number of years sounds like garbo. More so since everyone is doing it, furthering the idea that all modern metal bands sound the same. Like you said it won't sound good to everybody. I prefer someone to have their own sound, it's makes a song or band more unique.
Your riff sounds really awesome at 2x speed, give it a try!
Making the preset public would have been great!
Are there any stereo filter pedals that would split the signal?
Can you use the Soldano to make a bass tone? ty
Maybe it's just because I play a different genre of metal than this, but I've always found this sort of tone to be kinda lacking in terms of just pure physical crushing...ness compared to a more simple set up with just a Fuzz and a Comp and a decent amp. Sounds good, tho.
Daniel Sudhoff
Nope, it’s not just you; this tone is literal garbage.
Smacking the piss out of it. Watched the whole thing just for that. Lold and learnt
Edit: Holy shit I learned loads. thanks so much for this
I use a esp 6 string bass 206sm
I wanna know what circle of tone thinks of this? ;)
Was there a reason that you didn’t use the Obsidian pedal? It was based off a Darkglass pedal...
Yes, I use Darkglass stuff all the time and it's great. This method kind of does what the Darkglass does but with a little more flexibility. You can distort just the high end, but you can't siphon off the low end alone to compress it.
First of all, this is nothing against your video, just my thoughts. ''It doesn't matter what bass sounds by itself, just how it sounds in the mix''. Personally, I only agree with the second half of this. There's many bands that have a really good bass tone by itself and that fit well into the mix. Examples would be the bass tones by Cannibal Corpse (Tomb, The Bleeding, Torture), Obscura, Beyond Creation, Death (Leprosy, ITP), Sadus, Pestilence (Testimony, Spheres), Athiest.... Just to name a few, I'm sure there's more I can't think of right now. Point being, you can find the middle ground if you want to. Unless you don't care for the bass as a stand alone instrument... If you just want the bass a support instrument, then everything you said applies.
I just ignored the comment because I was looking for a tone thats more for playing solo, but it's good to have a good bass tone that sits well in the mix. Personally, I don't like bass tones that sound like they're made just to sit well in the mix. The more memorable and distinct tones like Obscura's and Gorguts' are more fun to play with on their own and sound better in mixes and songs. It depends but I agree that his comment wasn't applicable to every situation.
@@elijahelbourn5709 Yeah, that's pretty much what I meant.
Me a caveman, "me punch strings, go brrrrr"
How do u get that like slappy metal bass tone
"How to sound like every "mainstream metal" bass and have no identity."
I know you prefaced the video with the caveat that not everyone has access to a Helix, but the remainder of the video is absolutely Helix-specific, nearly to the point of a paid demo or advertisement. That's fine, but perhaps consider adding "with the Line6 Helix" to the title. The resulting bass tone is fine for modern metal, but I can say from experience it can absolutely be achieved with the entry-level SansAmp and a RAT pedal in front. The math: Helix LT $1000 USD. SansAmp Bass Driver + RAT < $300.
I think it does matter that it sounds pretty good on its own. Yeah it needs to suit the mix and stuff, but, y'know, you can have both.
Djental gate. Got it.