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Make a guitar sound like a bass guitar
I'm a bit surprised I haven't found any threads discussing this subject matter. It's pretty self-explanatory. I don't have a bass, and would like to use my electric guitar to write some bass lines. I use an Mbox2 on a MacBook Pro w/ Pro Tools LE 8, and I have just about the minimum amount of plugins one can have. Thanks!
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Re: Make a guitar sound like a bass guitar
You're surprised?
Why not just get an inexpensive bass guitar? No plug-in is going to effectively make a guitar sound lik a bass. An octave down box would probably be the thing to look at. You can probably get one for around the same price as an inexpensive bass guitar.
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Look in your local second hand dealer as well. You can pick up some bargains. I have a cheap as chips bass guitar I think I paid $199 for. Does the job for me. Personally I don't ever think a guitar will ever sound like a bass, much like a bass will never sound like a guitar
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Re: Make a guitar sound like a bass guitar
Exactly.
If one MUST use something other than a bass to do bass parts, there are several VIs that do a nice job.
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Re: Make a guitar sound like a bass guitar
You can also try a pitch-shifter plugin. I think PT comes with a couple of them standard.
But as mentioned, it won't sound very good. Xpand 2, which comes with PT, has a selection of bass guitar sounds. They would probably sound better than pitch shifting. |
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Re: Make a guitar sound like a bass guitar
In the long run picking up a cheap bass really is the best choice. ....... But for the sake of argument this is what I have done in the past for a quick "Bass Sound"
Record the guitar direct in. Pitch shift the guitar down an octave. Then run that into an Bass amp simulator. I got surprisingly decent results with simple picked bass lines on the E and A string. cheers Kevin |
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Re: Make a guitar sound like a bass guitar
If it's simply for writing purposes, I used to play the bass line with a clean guitar tone, and then double it with a MIDI instrument. Try to avoid actual bass tones... Depending on the style, I used a Rhodes sound, or B3.
It fills up the spectrum enough to keep creating over top of it. But you'll definitely want to buy a cheap bass. Nothing comes close enough... at least not for me. Good luck! |
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Re: Make a guitar sound like a bass guitar
So far, the consensus is to buck up and buy a bass. Whenever I get the expendable funds for that, I will :) Until then, I used the pitch shifting method, and it seems to actually sound pretty decent (this is all just for a cheap demo to hand out at gigs), but I am getting a lot of weird buzzing from god-knows-where at the tail end of a note when I pull my finger off the string/fretboard. Any thoughts on why? I really appreciate everybody's help!
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