Writing a riff BASS FIRST with Parallax X | Thick Riff Thursday, Ep 64 

I saw the bass first, and thought "Oops, wrong channel".

NEED that Nolly X now

@@marcosjaime5384 For real. Plini X is for my leads and cleans. Nolly x for high gain and crunch and some ambient stuff. Need that transposer in nolly for some thall

Well I'd hope so

I play the crowing or the suffering haha

@@nooneinparticular9868 The Suffering is so much fun

Great soundcheck riff to conjure all the nerds in the area

Anyone can play notes on a bass, it takes skill to be a bassIST though!

@@callumvernon7053 exactly!

Bass is exhausting to play.

@@DBIIIStudios it’s hard to keep stank face up for long periods of time

@@callumvernon7053 man you’re not kidding lol

yes

Parallax is a distortion/amp sim plugin on its own, the way you're doing it is like running a cab sim through an actual physical cab, it just doubles down on the filtering and everything. Try running a DI through it and I promise you wont be disappointed. If you want to add EQ and stuff then probably do it after the parallax so that you actually edit the affected signal (unless your bass has some annoying frequencies in which case you might wanna cut them out like Nick did here). Now if you want to capture your physical rig, since you're using a sansamp rbi just plug that into your audio interface and record that with no extra amp sim after it, you should be gtg.

It's all about the DI going into parallax. For an optimal sound you'd want fresh strings and a properly set up bass. You can also try playing with your bass settings (preamp eq etc) or EQing your DI before parallax.