Plugin For Making A Guitar Sound Like A Bass (No Latency) ?

[PLX]

You're better off just buying a cheap bass.

Had one, but recently gave it away to make room on the wall hanger for a new guitar.

 

[PLX]

EZBass seems pretty for some quick bass tracks, if I remember right it just takes the DI, pitches it down and makes it sound like a bass.

This looks pretty good !

 

[joezlo]

I use a EHX nano pog & just crank the lower octave.

Then I put it through a SVT Sans Amp, which has an XLR out.

(I am using an old hard disc recorder - however Newer versions of the Sansamp might have USB outs if you need it)

Can be heard using the guitar in the video here (middle position so both humbuckers):


And a Wolfgang standard with both humbuckers in middle position here on this suite of songs:


After recorded, just did some light compression & eq.

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

Does this exist ?

use ezbass to replace the guitar track with (very good) sample-based bass after the fact.

 

[PLX]

use ezbass to replace the guitar track with (very good) sample-based bass after the fact.

That would be "easy" but I need to hear it as a bass in real-time as I play it.

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

That would be "easy" but I need to hear it as a bass in real-time as I play it.

(1) it sounds like you are just using the eventude stuff as plug-in, so are actually still just printing a DI guitar track? Even if you are printing the Eventide effect, ezbass will replace that just as easily as the di guitar.

(2) hell, it might even work in real-time with not sufficiently more latency than you are getting from the Eventide plugins.

If the Eventide approach is only giving you passable tone, it’s worth trying the demo.

 

[PLX]

(1) it sounds like you are just using the eventude stuff as plug-in, so are actually still just printing a DI guitar track? Even if you are printing the Eventide effect, ezbass will replace that just as easily as the di guitar.

(2) hell, it might even work in real-time with not sufficiently more latency than you are getting from the Eventide plugins.

If the Eventide approach is only giving you passable tone, it’s worth trying the demo.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking; was to go in after I record and run the "fake bass" track thru another plugin to make it sound like a real bass.

 

[quadgear]

I saw a vid for a box sometime in the last year where you ran a guitar into said box and it output two signals, one for straight guitar tone the other for a "bass" tone. Cannot remember what it's called though...

Perhaps it was the EHX Bass:9?

 

[Bruce]

Every time I tried this I got better results using a bass plugin or playing the bass myself.

 

[norminal]

Every time I tried this I got better results using a bass plugin or playing the bass myself.

Yeah, basses are so cheap these days. Even the cheapest bass can lay down decent tracks in a mix.

 

[Bruce]

Yeah, basses are so cheap these days. Even the cheapest bass can lay down decent tracks in a mix.

I can program the hell out of EZ Bass better than I can play my 5 string.

 

[Sascha Franck]

It is a bit more than @DrewJD82 - I believe it tracks your DI and detects pitches and note onsets, and uses that information to trigger an actual bass sample library.

So it's guitar to MIDI?

 

[Bruce]

So it's guitar to MIDI?

Melodyne will change audio to midi, too.

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

So it's guitar to MIDI?

No, it’s pitch to MIDI plus a bit more. It can convert any pitched track to a sample-based bass track, and will do any transposing required. I don’t recall if it also can “read” articulations from the DI or not, but the sample library has some great articulations.

 

[Iron1]

Maybe try this?

 

[Axe]

 

[Iron1]

LOVE love love my DROP pedal (so much so I have two of them now... they breed like rabbits, fyi, sort of like 10-band eq pedals). Really want one of these too, but haven't found a valid "reason" to shift from want to need.

 

[Axe]

use ezbass to replace the guitar track with (very good) sample-based bass after the fact.

That's similar to what I do sometimes. I record my Bass into EZD3's bandmate function. It converts it to midi and I import my mess into EZB in a project track.

Here's an example

 

[Iron1]

That's similar to what I do sometimes. I record my Bass into EZD3's bandmate function. It converts it to midi and I import my mess into EZB in a project track.

Here's an example

EZ Drummer 3? The drums sound really good. The bass does as well - I assume you can run the bass through other plugins to add fuzz/distortion/FX as desired?

 

[JiveTurkey]

That's similar to what I do sometimes. I record my Bass into EZD3's bandmate function. It converts it to midi and I import my mess into EZB in a project track.

Here's an example

This is great. I just upgraded to EZD3 and saw the bandmate option but hadn't had a chance to see what all it can do.