2012/11/14 02:09:08
Linear Phase
The ProChannel!!   Absolutely sick for this.

Saturate with the Cakewalk Saturater ( not the soft tube )  Use one of the PC Comps, and the quad curve..   Boost around 180!!  

Simple + Booming!!
2012/11/15 22:04:45
The Band19
Excite it. Have you looked at Izotope's Allow? They have some nice bass presets.

There's nothing quite as enjoyable as an excited bottom end...
2012/11/15 22:11:12
The Band19
String style? i.e. round wound, half wound, flat wound. The bass and the pickups, playing w/a nylon pick vs fingered. Lots of deep bunny trails. Go with my rig (fretted) An alembic Stanley Clarik Brown bass, with a fresh set of rotosounds, bi-amped with their stereo cable and played w/a nylon pic. You trust me... This is a good combination. With some nice pre-amps? Your bass will sound fatter than Rosanne Barr's fat ASCII file transfer...
2012/11/16 10:46:56
dcumpian
I've got it done for the current project. Cloning the track and treating the split tracks separately solved my problem. I do need new strings though. I'll have to research what I want to replace these with.

I basically created a crossover and split the frequencies between the two tracks. Then I was able to focus on the "growl" separate from the "grunt", which I see now was misconstrued as "growl". This bass is very punchy and I was having a hard time getting a fat bottom to balance the growl.

Next time, I'll record this thing differently and plan for this up front. It'll be a lot easier, I hope.

Thanks everyone for the advice!

Regards,
Dan
2012/11/17 19:08:55
Philip
My bass must collab with kick and melody.  It cannot be arbitrary.  The grunt is often in the arrangement.

So much of my bass-line comes from a collab (live) performer who can link melody with the kick intuitively (Danny Danzi, Roger Davis have been invaluable to me).

Producer samples (like producerloops.com) and Beatscape (Sonar) offer some grunty sync kick-bass-chords/melodies.

The other 50%; I fake it with Trilogy ... like a farty-trumpet-bass :):):)

UAD bass enhancer 'VOG' (voice of god) ... has its place for hip-hop bass (5-6 songs for me). 

But again (as stressed by Bat and you-all), a seasoned live bass-player knows how to make it grunt ... in any genre I believe.
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