Bass chain is Fender Squire 5 Bass -> Line 6 Bass Pod (Stadium preset) with the Bass Pod compression pretty heavy -> SONAR carve @ 300 hz to remove the woof -> stardust free vst w/ phase rotator on -> Free MJUC JR VariMU Compressor a few dbs.
Snuck under that is the Anderton octave down tip. where you take a copy of the bass track and using melodyne drag it all down -12 steps and sneak it under your bass track. Without this it's thick and rich but I tried Anderton's tip and it also became chocolatey.
However, the bass sound is the Bass POD Stadium preset mostly - it's why I bought it. I was off to get the country bass that you can play an acoustic alone over and it sounds like power like you hear on country radio. Before this I used a SANSAMP Bass DI that would have sufficed for rock but went
Bass when I wanted BAAASSSS!
I had a pod 2 and tried out the bass pod when I hit upon the stadium preset I knew I had it and bought it right then. This was years ago. When I tracked bands here I would DI them to the stadium preset and they all wet off giddy.
The phase rotator in the free Stardust plug is cool it is used for radio dialog to keep the guy on the mic coming at you relentlessly - works a treat on bass.
It's been a journey but bass is not the struggle it once was I just do it this way and fuss about the rest.
And a lot of car testing to set the level.
Btw, the other older 3 songs on the reverbnation site are the sansamp bass DI