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whats on your typical bass channel?

I been throwing these on as inserts alot.. also im wondering is this a 'correct' order. I know it depends on what ur going for but I need to know if any of these are out of order on the chain..

Synth (massive, albino, minimoog) >Bitcrusher (CMT)>Comperssor (live's default)> FX (camel crusher, ohm force, live's built ins, Saturator etc.)> EQ> (blue cat)> Analyzer ( blue cat)

Whats on yours?

There's no correct anything.

I know there are no rules and moving things around can give you unexpected results, why i put 'correct' in quotes. I'm just trying to make sense of the order fundamentally, because before I was just throwing things in the chain with no real rhyme or reason. i.e. If u are putting your EQ before your compressor you are just squashing the dynamics u just boosted so in theory you would need to EQ again NO?

Order or not.. whats everone using mostly?

collige wrote:There's no correct anything.

... but there are guidelines regarding fx chain. NI have pretty much summed it up in Guitar Rig manual.
If you don't have it I'll quote that bit here when I get home, if that's not against the forum rules.

Basicly the idea is simple : there's no wrong fx chain, just different results. Flanger before distortion doesn't sound like flanger after distortion and so on.
So experiment different basic combos (just 2 effects together) and see which order sounds better to you before adding more.
Make sure you really understand your effects. I'm wondering how useful is the compressor in your chain considering the bitcrusher and the distortion will fuck your dynamics up anyway. Compressor on a bass is usually used on the low end channel when splitting frequencies because there's oftenly a lot of unwanted volume amplitude there.

Also paying attention to details is the key (so I've been told).

Nothing. And it sounds Massive.

split into 2-3 busses
bitcrusher, compressor etc
no right way
generally saturation on most of em parallel compress the main
actually alot of paralell compression
depends on the bass sound i'm after tbh

ketamine wrote:Nothing. And it sounds Massive.

no bit crushing, compression or saturation? NICE! link???

no ones named plugs

vazt wrote:no ones named plugs

self discovered for self sculpted sound man you hit up doa they will mention many common, but there are loads of better you can discover on own

vazt wrote:whats on your typical bass channel?

I been throwing these on as inserts alot.. also im wondering is this a 'correct' order. I know it depends on what ur going for but I need to know if any of these are out of order on the chain..

Synth (massive, albino, minimoog) >Bitcrusher (CMT)>Comperssor (live's default)> FX (camel crusher, ohm force, live's built ins, Saturator etc.)> EQ> (blue cat)> Analyzer ( blue cat)

Whats on yours?

I send my bass to the first available channel which is normally number 5 or 6 after some drums are down lol. My bass channel will only have a tiny bit of simple tape/tube distortion and a filter to take out nasty top end.

cmt bitcrusher, eq to reduce highs a bit, tiny bit of delay, compress.
pretty much the same every time.

9 time out of 10 it will be just an eq with a high and low pass filter to take out the very top and bottom. never reallyy find i need crushers etc but then im not making hype wobble type stuff.

Completely different every time.

Using Guitar rig on my subbass channel these days... Light settings.. Its SICK

Analog tape overdrive, Flange, and PHAZERS set to FUNK..

dom wrote:9 time out of 10 it will be just an eq with a high and low pass filter to take out the very top and bottom. never reallyy find i need crushers etc but then im not making hype wobble type stuff.

this

Great thread! I usually just use compressor, and eq sometimes bit crush, distortion fuzz or overdrive

all effects I use are on the VSTi

maybe a LPF on my sub, but thats it

Any good free bitcrusher vst's out there ?

I don't make any midrange these days.. so.. a parametric eq and thats about it.

I heart sub