(I used to always use Trillian for upright bass.) It sounds awesome and it nails that rockabilly slap. Welcome to the new bass guitar in your metal instrument arsenal. theres a new upright bass library that came out a month or two ago called 'Back Beat Bass.' I prefer this one now for all my upright bass work. This is the main bass for anyone who is serious about it.
S3 Precision has fingered, picked and slap and has a ton of character but doesn't go quite as low as the basses aimed for modern metal, djent etc. Serious bass is the backbone of any serious metal track. Shreddage 3 Abyss is great fingered bass but indeed only fingered. MODO Bass has an unparalleled variety of tones you can get out of it but fast repetitions have tons of buzz so it ends up sounding weird.
Very customizable overall, especially the ADSR section is crucial since you might want to retain the full pick attack for lower stuff but reduce it for faster repetitions (I sometimes even automate the sample start offset in my DAW).Īmple's Metal Ray 5 is great too and sounds more "metal" but I wish some notes would have a tad more sustained sound instead of the quite fast decay (using picked mode, haven't given the new fingered mode a try yet), however if you use compression or a lot of gain in the amp it's not much of an issue.
It has fingered and picked articulations and even slap. I rarely do any keyswitching, I just insert the notes and it *works*.įor more expressive performances I use Ample Sound's J-Bass which actually goes down to B due to its extended low range (not indicated in the fretboard view which shows just the normal 4 strings range). If there’s any other instrument or element in popular music styles that has a profound of an effect on the over feel of the tracks as the drums do, it’s gotta be bass A great bass riff, bass line, or bass part can take a track to the next level. Eurobass 2 is my goto bass when I just want a thick low end that sits nicely below the guitars. Spectrasonics Trilian has all the bass you’ll ever need.