Metal Bass Tone - How to Make It Awesome [Reaper Tutorial]

The bass in metal is the glue between the bottom end of the drums, especially the kick, and the mids of the guitars. Distorted guitars don't glue well with an unmodified bass tone, it needs it's own distortion, applied just right.

The standard of processing metal bass is to split it into three parallel tracks based on frequency, and treat those three tracks differently. When they are merged back together, they will make the perfect bass tone that glues with your guitars and with your drums. This video teaches you how!

00:00 Introduction
01:07 Creating the basic bass track
02:57 Setting up the processing tracks
05:16 Processing the bottom track
06:37 Processing the grit track
09:30 Processing the dist track
10:32 Finalizing the bass tone
11:32 Trying the tone in a mix
14:16 Creating a track template
15:30 Outro - like and subscribe!

Equipment and software used:
Reaper 6.42
Neural DSP Fortin Nameless
TSE 808
TSE R47
Lepou Le456
LeCab2
Superior Drummer with Metal Machine
Ibanez S470
Aston Spirit
Davinci Resolve 17

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