How To Make a $300 Bass Guitar Sound Like a $2500 Dingwall 

Thanks so much guys for the support! Any topics you'd like me to cover in the future?

Jokes on everyone as I can make Neural DSP plugins sound like the oldest POD Farm.

imagine what this guy could do with a $450 bass

Honestly that DI tone isn’t even that bad! You played it really well. Fresh air is a cool trick on bass, I’ll have to try that!

as a professional listener, this does sound like the pirated copy of djinnbass that i have

Been getting this done for a while with my $150 HB 5 string. Glad to see someone finally sharing the power with the people in a productive way! Great tutorial!

amazing tone, but also very impressed by the DI signal. Tight, Punchy, but without any string buzz or plek noise. Yeah the high end needed a boost. That aside, that's one half of the magic already!

So much EQ.. done so well. Last cut at 400 was nice

Ive never thought to use fresh air on bass, that's really interesting

pretty cool. now try the same and see if you can get close to Justin Chancellor (Tool) tone.

My preferred bass tone is the pure input signal. But then the more aggressive the guitars get, the more you need to scoop that tone. Well done!

Your settings with the Channev plugin sounded STUNNING, really took it to where it needed to be. Great tutorial man!

its crazy, it seems so obvious when you hear a great bass sound it has less to do with sick gear and some expensive pickups and more to do with playing clean and precise and then the right eq, compression, fx, but brands want you to believe they have the secret ingredient. Still Dingwall makes some sexy instruments, Ibanez as well, but skill is critical and getting a great tone takes dedication and a good ear. Lots of great free plugins too, thanks for the explanation!

you just earned yourself a follower! sick video, clean presentation, and it goes to show you dont need the fanciest video equipment to make good content :)

Big man🐐🐐🐐

Honestly man thank you for this vid I've been really struggling to give my own £200 bass some clarity and just with the free plugins you've used it's transformed my sound!

Very informative and useful, love it.

Great job man. SUBBED

Very nice dude thank you

Sick! Finally checked out Analog Obsession, thanks to you. :-)

This was awesome man! I thought for sure you had been making videos for a while! As a metal mixer on reaper I for one would absolutely love to see your workflow. Please continue making these!

Amazing!

Actually sounds so killer. Those eq moves were aggressive but they worked fr

Fresh Air is the ultimate party trick. So underrated for its subtlety, but that's where the magic lies.

When I saw that chain I thought overkill, by the end, I was a believer. You must have a badass computer to run that signal chain and other tracks.

That sounds soo good.

Great Vid!

Awesome playing!!

This guy gonna go viral

Good job bro

Sick video! 🤘🤘

Sub! Nice one. Well explained and pretty impressive sound indeed. Franckly, your playing done a good part of the sound.

The Growler is awesome 👌 great video. Also, your first video? I'm impressed. Thumbnail got me, content delivered what the title says. Looking forward to more 😀

increíble sonido amigo, muchas gracias por esta información, me suscribo desde ya!

nicely done!

automatic chad for using reaper.

bass mix sounds great, I was really impressed with the layering of the eq's and the result is real nice. also the little 2db chopper at the end adds nice consistency. I wanted to ask though, would you end up mixing the full track this way or was it for showcasing the bass? the preview in the beginning sounds massive, but i think dwarfs the other instruments

I've been able to get a Dingwall-esque tone out of my Sterling bass, but I use Parallax as the amp sim

Wow, this sounds great! Could you make a video showcasing some more free VSTs? Also, it would be very cool to see something about how to sound like "The Omnific"

That’s why you should have fresh strings

Hey dude! First of all let me congratulate you for your knowledge and effort. Very refreshing to see people work on the scientific part of a bass tone. That being said let me give some critique on this. First of all the title. This is not how to make a bass sound like a Dingwall. This is how to sound like Nolly on Periphery records. Which in the end is basically another generic "how to sound like Periphery on bass" type video. Why not sound like yourself ? I mean, you put all this effort to teach people how to get, in a very complicated manner, an expensive tone. Also, about the budget. You might want to factor in the extra cost for any paid plugins you used. In that case the 350 $ thing goes out the window. Want the dingwall tone. Mod you bass with Dingwall Electronics and scoop the mids a tad bit to emulate the 37" scale B string behavior. Oh and get a darkglass B7k and a comp. That's most of it. Yes its not 350$ but its not 3500$. A more comprehensive video would be on how to get a great bass tone in general. And i say this, because you already do most of the heavy stuff in this video. Like you are 70% there. There are some principles that pro Bass Players use (and don't speak about very openly) that you do in this video. Hope this will bring a plus. Cheers dude! Keep it going.

Yep, what people don't realize is that bass tone is 90% playing and new strings. The brand basically means nothing as long as it stays in tune.

👍

at around 5:00 i feel like you could just use the internal SC for that band just so it listens to the low end, i'm just guessing you just wanted high end on the lower notes

Also, imagine using fresh strings

finally. thanks so much. question, what can i use instead of pro mb? any free plugin reco?

you need the pickups placed close together to get the proper sound

I have a Cort Action that sounds too "weak", so I thought that midi basses could be a solution. Issue : am sort of broke for the moment. Have been trying Modo Bass 2 (free trial) to get better midi bass, quite cool but not as much as expected Have been trying a free bass library on Kontakt that sounds awesome, fantastic. BUT you gotta buy the full version of Kontakt not to be interrupted by it. So, thanks a ton of lots man. I'll try it out, you're a magician :)

cool mix! what're you using for drums?

From your title one can get an impression that dingwall sounds like what we here at the end of the video. Can you explain how a raw dingwall DI sounds like this?

This is amazing! I’ve been trying to get this tone. Would this be possible on a Schecter or ESP bass?

But the darkglass preamp and also the DI makes dingwall that dingwall.

How isn't this track just all background noise after boosting the highs like 8 times?

Do I need studio headphones for my interface???

Nice work. I have a question though, your DI already sounds fantastic to me, I have a cheap af j-bass and the DI sounds like butt, basically pure mud, even with fresh strings. I tried to cut the lows pre amp as much as possible, boost highmids and highs and compreas that but it was such a boost that i get to hear all the buzzes and EMI noise xD what's the verdict doc?

hmmmmm, isnt profab filter like 899? any free alternates?

OK but how can we do this live? 😭

The high string almost sound like dingwall, but the lowest string is to far. imo

Te faltó soothe al final para matar esa resonancia horrible

I have a $1000 bass and it doesn't sound this good haha. Goes to show when you know what you're doing and can play properly the results can be great.

me need moar tuts

This video inplies that a dingwall sounds like no other bass......

Dingwalls suck

+ $1500 worth of plugins

Dingwall is pretty look, but has weak voice. Not good bass.

Absolutely amazing! I understand you had to make a somewhat "clickbaity" title, but this is great advice even for some better instruments too... Thanks a lot!