Virtual bass plugins that go down loooooow but aren't modern/djent

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

So instead of buying a bass, I'm just gonna find a plugin.

Basically I love old-school J bass and P/J tones, but I'd like to find a VSTi bass that can nail those sounds while also being able to go down to at least G. I'm not too hot on the zingy, twangy sound of humbuckers and Dingwalls, as well as walls of distortion. I actually like a slightly darker, rounder bass sound, clean or just broken up and tons of compression. Not a lot of top end sizzle but a huge midrange push ~1.5k - 2k. Think Geddy Lee, Eddie Jackson, Chris Squire, Billy Gould, Mike Dirnt, etc.

Closest things I found were Modo Bass and EZ bass, but they go down to A. I guess I could get those and drop the pitch down a step or two with another plugin, but I was wondering if there's anyone thats done a J or P/J VSTi that goes down low.

 

[Crungy]

Do any of the djenty bois have options to make them sound not djenty?

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

Do any of the djenty bois have options to make them sound not djenty?

The Submission Audio plugins have Clean and DI options, but they're all done with humbucker and Dingwall basses with what sounds like the Treble knob cranked to max, so... yeah. My bread and butter is J bass and P/J basses.

 

[tedtan]

I’m not aware of any, but you can pitch down a whole step without issue.

 

[budda]

Do you have an axefx iii or is my brain mush after work today?

 

[jvms]

Not sure companies would sample basses with the EQ on. Sounds like a bad idea. I think the agression comes from super hard picking during sampling. Turn down the highs and high mids or compress them. Maybe a multiband transient designer can help. Experiment before and after the amp sim or reamp. I don't think it will be very difficult to get a useable non djenty tone out of them.

 

[afterzaar]

I think GroveBass doesn't have that dangle dangle sound a lot.

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

Do you have an axefx iii or is my brain mush after work today?

The Axe FX has a built in virtual bass?

I think GroveBass doesn't have that dangle dangle sound a lot.

It kinda sorta does, just not as offensive as the other plugins like Eurobass.

 

[Lorcan Ward]

I tried to pitch shift a virtual 4 string bass from D to C and it sounded awful. All clarity and attack was muffled.

The A in EZbass modern doesn’t sound good already so pitching that to G would sound awful. For clarity below C you want a twangy bass so the notes pop out, EZbass does have an EQ for the DI so you can roll back the bass or treble.

 

[Winspear]

Loki and Submission go low but I think Grovebass may be the only that comes closer to the sound you are after. Still not those pickup types though

 

[GunpointMetal]

Try one of the clean DI's you have with the velocities below 70 and a high-shelf pulling down a few dB around 5k.

 

[vertibration]

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ABZ 5 Bass Instrument is sampled with a top of the range Dingwall ABZ bass made in Canada. Tracked with Kallium 185-50 strings it has the clean and...

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I bought this a while ago, it gets low, sounds fantastic, real, and not artificial. Highly recommended.

 

[Phobos//Deimos]

If you use Logic I can kick you a vsti of a bass rompler I snagged for free about a year ago. The original one is gone now (which sucks) but it’s a no frills multi sample of like E0 all the way up and it some Ibanez 5 string that sounds pretty beefy. Just let me know.

 

[nightlight]

Dude, trust me, get a bass. You'll have more fun with it. You can then run it into something like a Tech 21 Sansamp model for that Geddy Lee-like tone.