kick up your bases and have them cut through the mix with character using this free vst plugin
it's the ToneLib BassDrive and i'll also show you another free vst from them that will take it
even further a little later in the video but right now let's check out ToneLib BassDrive
now this is based on the hardware Bass Driver from SansAmp does it sound the same as that i
don't know i don't own a SansAmp Bass Driver but will this add character and make your bass cut
through the mix absolutely it's incredibly easy to dial in your sound with this nice clean user
interface and then you have that graphic display in the background that will show you the input and
output levels which is very nice you also have the bypass on here and you have an overall output now
this controls the overall output for the dry signal and the wet signal so keep that
in mind if you want to control the wet signal output you want to use this level right here
it's incredible that this thing is free now coming up i'll show you how i'd probably
use this in a mix but right now i want to show you another free plugin from ToneLib that
they just came out with and it's the ToneLib Tube Warmth and that's going to also add to our
bass sound here so here's ToneLib Tube Warmth you can see it's an extremely easy plug-in to navigate
you have warmth drive and then level at the end here plus you have this nice tube graphic that
changes when you change the settings so let's dial in our sound and you can use this either before
or after the bass drive i'm going to use it after right now and we'll see what we can come up with
i don't mind that right there it kind of smooths things out makes it sound
nice but let's just see how crazy this thing can get if we go full blast with warmth and drive
that's pretty cool and you can use this plugin all over your mix it doesn't matter where you
put it you can just add some nice tube warmth or drive wherever you want in your mix so now
i'll show you how i would approach using this in a mix now what i would do is copy and paste my
DI'd bass recording down onto another track or what I've got going on here is I have it
routed into this second track so you want to create a second track and either copy
and paste the audio of your DI bass into that second track or you could route it
into another track like i have you can see track one is Bass DI that's the recorded and track two
I call bass amp or sometimes i'll call it bass character whatever i want to call it
and right now i have bass DI turned all the way down so all we're hearing is the bass
drive what we want to do is i'll turn bass DI up and i've added a parametric EQ on there
so this is a free EQ it's called Nova TDR Nova you can download it free or use
any parametric EQ you might already have your DAW likely comes with one one I use
all the time is the Renaissance EQ but for this i'll use the free TDR Nova and it's
extremely easy to do what i'm about to do here so on the bass di track we have Nova here and
when you load this up all of these will be enabled you can just disable all of them if you like
and then enable the high pass filter here it'll be off by default and i usually go with 65 hertz and
then i'll slope it with about 12 decibel octaves like this and then i'll enable the low pass filter
and i'll set it to 250 hertz and again about 12 decibel octaves so it looks like there's a sad
face in there and that's what we want it to look like so let's just listen to what we've got so far
this is just the bass DI that you're hearing right now
all bass in that no real top end in there it's just going to be our low end stuff so now let's
add Nova on to our bass character track and you can see what I've done here is I've enabled the
high pass filter and i've set it to 250 hertz with the 12 decibel octave roll off there
so it's picking up where the other one leaves off and it's going to give us all our kind of
character to our bass sound so we'll still have a nice clean bottom end with that DI but we're
going to have this character base here so now what we want to do is just kind of mix to taste
and once you have it mixed the way you like the base and the character in there
we can start adding it to our mix now this is a rough mix but i'm going to
unsolo that and we'll hear what it sounds like in the mix
and you can see i have both of the di and the character bass going into a bass
bus so i can adjust the overall volume of both together and i could also add compression in here
if i want and more eq whatever other plugins i might want to add on there i could do that
but you can hear you have that nice low end from the DI bass and then you have that character sound
from the character amp or whatever you want to call it the second bass track
it's a great way to mix your bass guitars or even your bass synths you can try that out now check
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