MASSIVE Modern Metal Bass Tone in 3 Minutes 

Lol, we all want one. I’ve gotten some comparable sounds with my Sterling though.

Every "modern metal bassist" on youtube agrees with this statement. ;)

And dark glass

A Dingwall, a $150 subscription to slate audio and a $130 plugin - then just get someone who can actually play and you're good to go for as little as $3000!

I have an ibanez SR305E bass, I bought it used for 200 bucks and I have the same tone or better

Correct! To me the most important thing is playing hard and consistently and having fresh strings 🤘

@@MOMetalProductions Yeahh Totally agree, and the fresh strings 👍🤘

Yep. There are multiple ways to achieve this, but a used LTD for around $300 with a set of EMGs or Fishmans will get you far. Just make sure the strings are fresh and intonated with the bass set to your desired action.

Glad to see someone else saying this, almost anytime you see a Dingwall its for modern metal music, and metal bass tone is going to be compressed, distorted, and EQ'd so much you won't recognize it, just look at how many plugins he used for the bass tone. Dingwall makes great basses, they have a versatile pickup configuration and they are sexy af, but if you can't afford one Ibanez has tons of sexy options for half the price. That being said.... I'ma get a Dingwall some day for sure, to go with my 4 Ibanez and 2 Schecters 😬

If you don't like the tone, fair enough. I disagree on the wall of plugins thing though, in my opinion it's all about getting the sound you desire. Getting it through 0 or 20 plugins doesn't matter to me at least 😊

@@MOMetalProductions No, i like the tone. I'm saying it could be simplified. Down to 3 modules tops. And using 20 plugins does matter to those with less processing power.

Thanks! I really like to commit to a tone that is 90% of what I know I want it to sound like in the mix. Then I feel I can be more confident in making bigger eq changes if necessary to fit it in with the other instruments if I am working only with a single audio file.

Buy some good monitors, Cali for example, and do some acoustic treatment. Glenn Fricker told a lot about this. You just cant mix a bass properly, if you cant hear it.)

@@such.ukr.nu.metalcore ok, but I work in headphones because of others. Previously I had Yamaha studio monotors but didn`t work

@@insertanynameyouwant5311 1 - what brand of headphones do you use? 2 - I'm assuming that you used low price segment of Yamaha. If I'm right - so kinda hard to expect that big company to make some decent gear in low price segment - they are giving more attention to development and promotion of their flagman products. And besides this - there are also possibility of having a flawed model/series of gear. Also! For bass clarity, you may want to try to cut out everything below 30-40 Hz in kick drum bus.

@@insertanynameyouwant5311 aaaand! Did you had an acoustic treatment in your room when used Yamaha studio monitors?

My recommendation would be to get a decent pair of headphones and sonarworks to have a flat-ish spectrum when listening. Having proper bass from your monitors require 1. Good monitors and 2. Good treatment so when starting our I'd definitely recommend headphones when it comes to bass. Next tip is to use reference tracks that you like the sound of and use them to match the level of the bass in your mixes to make sure you don't over- or underbalance the mix volume wise. /Mattias

It's using the heavy saturation mode. Put the cab on afterwards and then adjust drive to taste. Less drive gives more string definition and more makes it gel more woth the guitars. It can be automated up or down as well to fit different sections' energy 😊

Nothing, it's just a leftover from the demo writing 😊

@@MOMetalProductions ooowkaaay 😑

I currently have a wide bass track that is the distorted channel spread out using a stereo widener :)

@@MOMetalProductions ahhh see I assumed this but no one's ever seemed to point that out. I'll try that now. Thanks dude.

Results is the keyword here for me. If I am getting the results I am after with 10 plugins instead 3, what is the difference as long as my CPU holds up? What listeners will hear won't change if it's the exact same results, and you don't get points for elegance when someone streams a track on Spotify. It's like cooking a meal and saying you could have reached the same results by using way less spices. Okay fine, but does it taste good? If the answer is yes, who cares what spices you used?

Yeah but this is a Metal Mix, a clean bass tone would just not glue well with the Guitars and the Genre, plus it helps so that we could hear it on small speakers and that it doesn’t get buried in the mix.

How about the drums that sound larger than life, vocals that are compressed as hell for consistency etc, super distorted guitars (are they allowed to be this distorted?😉). It’s called metal, you can hate it but don’t have to state it