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It's taken me 30 some odd years to kind of come with my bass tone. However, my bass tone changes from song to song when I record. Some of my songs need a Spector with its unique tone and growl from the SSD pickups. Some of my songs need a more punchy tone from my Schecter with hot stack P/J pickups. However, there is always one thing that I've tried to keep constant about my bass tone. I want every note to be heard, and I want a really nice low end to it as well.
During the 12 years that I spent playing in a band in my youth, I played through a few different cabinets to achieve such a tone. I used Carvin heads which were bi-ampable. I would run my highs into a 2x12 cab, and my lows into a 1x18 cabinet when we first started. As years progressed and we started playing bigger places, my rig got bigger. It was crazy to be honest with you. I was running two Carvin bass heads. A PB 400 and a PB 500. One head was running the 2x15 tune ported cab with just tons of lows and 1x18 with tons of punchy lows, and the other head was running the Carvin 2x12 cabinet with punchy highs and a Cerwin Vega Sub type cabinet with a ton of lows.
Anyways over the years of doing recording, I finally came up with a way to somewhat get that sound. Actually, I just recently came up with it, and then all of a sudden I have seen where Tech21 is kind of doing the same thing.
First off, when it comes to bass tones, I really like a CLEAN bass tone. Now, as much as I love the tones of Chris Squire, Geddy Lee, John Entwhistle, and especially Dug Pinnick, I'm just not a distorted bass tone kind of guy.
Anyways, I finally came up with a cool tone in the past year or so to achieve my tone that I had years ago. I run my bass into an aby pedal. Depending on the song, I try and get a nice clean punchy tone with either my Behringer V Tone Bass Modeler, My Hartke Bass Attack, or my Bass simulation of an SVT from my Eleven rack. Now sometimes I may use a combination of those at once to get a cool tone. But, the piece la resistance that I use is my old ass Line 6 Bass Pod. I use the Sub Dub setting along with my higher punchy tone.
So, this is what that sounds like with my higher punchy/growly tone using the Eleven Rack SVT and the Sub Dub together.
Anyways, back to my original thought. Both of these look like great products, and they seem to do what I do by running an ABY pedal.
During the 12 years that I spent playing in a band in my youth, I played through a few different cabinets to achieve such a tone. I used Carvin heads which were bi-ampable. I would run my highs into a 2x12 cab, and my lows into a 1x18 cabinet when we first started. As years progressed and we started playing bigger places, my rig got bigger. It was crazy to be honest with you. I was running two Carvin bass heads. A PB 400 and a PB 500. One head was running the 2x15 tune ported cab with just tons of lows and 1x18 with tons of punchy lows, and the other head was running the Carvin 2x12 cabinet with punchy highs and a Cerwin Vega Sub type cabinet with a ton of lows.
Anyways over the years of doing recording, I finally came up with a way to somewhat get that sound. Actually, I just recently came up with it, and then all of a sudden I have seen where Tech21 is kind of doing the same thing.
First off, when it comes to bass tones, I really like a CLEAN bass tone. Now, as much as I love the tones of Chris Squire, Geddy Lee, John Entwhistle, and especially Dug Pinnick, I'm just not a distorted bass tone kind of guy.
Anyways, I finally came up with a cool tone in the past year or so to achieve my tone that I had years ago. I run my bass into an aby pedal. Depending on the song, I try and get a nice clean punchy tone with either my Behringer V Tone Bass Modeler, My Hartke Bass Attack, or my Bass simulation of an SVT from my Eleven rack. Now sometimes I may use a combination of those at once to get a cool tone. But, the piece la resistance that I use is my old ass Line 6 Bass Pod. I use the Sub Dub setting along with my higher punchy tone.
So, this is what that sounds like with my higher punchy/growly tone using the Eleven Rack SVT and the Sub Dub together.
Anyways, back to my original thought. Both of these look like great products, and they seem to do what I do by running an ABY pedal.
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