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Here is a little clip from the bass sessions for the new album:

Nick used his MTD bass, and we went into the MW-1 for DI and split to the Axe-FX for a supporting distortion track. Once in Cubase, the distorted track is hi passed and the DI track is low passed so each track fills out it’s respective space in the mix.

The distorted track chain in the Axe-FX is the Ampeg SVT bass amp model, 8×10 cab and 421 mic, with a Rat pedal in front for the grind as well as a compressor.

The DI track in Cubase goes into a couple of compressors in series first, a UAD LA-2A and an 1176. I found this worked well for evening out the very dynamic fingerstyle playing without too many artifacts and still maintaining some attack. I then run the DI into the Ampeg SVX plugin for some additional fattening, and run the Bass bus into a final EQ to tweak the frequency range a bit. In this case I’ve scooped out some midrange honk and filtered the sub lows a touch.

That’s it so far although I imagine the final bass track will change a bit, we will most likely be reamping through Nick’s massive Mesa rig down the road as well. Metal,

- Sacha