Tone hunting

You need that outstanding bass guitar tone you are hearing on your favorite album.

So you bought an awesome instrument and a fantastic amp. Maybe you have also bought some beautiful stompboxes, expensive rack units, and phenomenal microphones. Or you rather use some amp simulation plugins.

But what? Your dream-tone is not there when recorded and mixed with the rest of the band? You are endlessly tweaking and tweaking your sound, you tried everything. No success.



Why?



Bass guitar can take a lot of processing. It’s because the bass often fights against heavily distorted and harmonically rich layers of guitars or synths. So you need the tone that can cut through. The bass has to be super-consistent, and tight but it also needs to have balls in the bottom-end and pretty nasty midrange at the same time. Sometimes it needs to be almost as distorted as the synth stuff so it can't be overlooked in the mix.

But it’s not all!

Even if the bass is heavily distorted, it also has to be clear at some point so everyone knows which note is played, right?



And that's why you need ToneSpot