The story
UPDATED: New GUI
I’ve been writing Rock and Heavy Metal for 10 years now, and always struggled with a lack of low end.
Never sure whether it’s my lack of mixing skill or lack of samples, I decided to make my own Bass Pads for my music.
I sampled my 5-string Ibanez bass; played the samples through a variety of distortion pedals and amps; and recorded the samples using 4 microphones in the cavernous wooden house that I had just moved into.
On the keyboard, you will find 1.5 octaves of fx (such as the bass tuning down and up), 1.5 octaves of bass drones, and a further 4 octaves where I used an eBow on the strings.
Please note that this is not an instrument in the traditional sense, but a means of adding low end pads and drones to your already existing compositions; Orchestral, or Rock.
Interface
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Aggressive low bass synth!!!
Biting dark bass sound!!! Totally cinematic, awesome library. The sound is placed through the keys so it is very playable as well.
A Bbbassy Drone!
This is a very nice and dark drone patch that can provide some deep tones in your creations. It is now updated with a nice GUI, which also makes place for some useful settings to sit. The samples also split nicely via some handy empty key spaces on the Kontakt keybed, which is very helpful and a neat touch. There's not too much to say, except to try it out yourself!
Badass and fun!!
I have had so much fun with this pack! not even project wise but just loading it up in Kontakt and playing notes on my mini keyboard just to watch my speakers go nuts!!! This is a very useful pack and as I stated before a fun one also! a must download for anyone that loves the Bass FEELZ!!!
Voldemort Bass
This instrument offers a fairly mid rangey bass drone that almost sounds like a vocal with some heavy sound design taking place. The mid range presence means it will cut through a mix pretty well. Its definitely a pretty gritty sound that will work really well for some circumstances. The sample maker mentioned he makes alot of rock and heavy metal so im sure this would be really nice for that. For me i cant imagine using this except in rare scoring situations but i think it can be a really useful tool
Bass drones
This sample pack has four different ranges, each with it's own variations of bass samples. They're all very similar, and I was left questioning if it was worth including such subtle variations. What's sort of interesting about this sound is that there's actually not a lot of bass information in the samples. Even on the lowest notes, things drop off really sharply at 50Hz, so that big cinematic drone you might hope you could use isn't really there. I think some folks will find a wide variety of uses for this sample pack.
