Dark Lord Bass
Boomy bass pad. A 5-string Ibanez bass recorded with four different microphones in an empty wooden house
ByMark Allnutt
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
Reviews
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!!!