Nailing Your Metal Bass Tone with Parallel Processing - Tutorial

[osiris]

I made a tutorial! It's on how to get a great metal tone:



I'll throw in a bonus one I made a week ago, although that one's really on a beginner level:

[TonE]

Thanks friend for sharing this, I know nothing about this topic, so it should help mostly users in my situation. I like the sound in the background already. Lets dive into the video now. Greetings to Sweden!

UPDATE: Side tip, background hiss you can easily remove using ReaFIR!

[Lynx_TWO]

Love it!

[The Kid]

Very cool!
The "gap" 250-500 makes sense.

[Pashkuli]

It shows some modern practices, with a few of which I do not completely agree, especially for a metal bass tone.
At least I can't hear any definition of the bass notes played, just a rumble and scratching mids for the most part.

(keep in mind that the best metal bass tone for me would be Cannibal Corpse's 1994 album, or Blotted Science album... maybe I am biased because of Alex Webster).

I find Trilian bass tone similar to old-school game music. Maybe it is just the preset or the same cc level for all notes, but it sounds unnatural like a game console form early 2000s.

The notes with the LCD green font are almost illegible.
Good for numbers, not so much for letters.

[Lynx_TWO]

I just love the fact that Metal Bass always confuses the hell out of the bass player :P "Where did my bass go?!?" Oh, it's there, just not where you'd expect...

[osiris]

Originally Posted by Pashkuli

It shows some modern practices, with a few of which I do not completely agree, especially for a metal bass tone.
At least I can't hear any definition of the bass notes played, just a rumble and scratching mids for the most part.

(keep in mind that the best metal bass tone for me would be Cannibal Corpse's 1994 album, or Blotted Science album... maybe I am biased because of Alex Webster).

I find Trilian bass tone similar to old-school game music. Maybe it is just the preset or the same cc level for all notes, but it sounds unnatural like a game console form early 2000s.

The notes with the LCD green font are almost illegible.
Good for numbers, not so much for letters.

Thanks for the feedback! There is definitely more of a wall of sound to the bass here, yes. That Trilian sounds like a synthesizer I can't really agree with though. It has a bunch of round robin samples for each velocity interval. If it sounds bad it's probably my shitty MIDI programming :-D