{"id":33494,"date":"2016-10-26T13:45:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T11:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/?p=33494"},"modified":"2026-04-02T12:58:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T10:58:06","slug":"bass-sounds-love-part-2-rock-metal-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/en\/gear\/bass-sounds-love-part-2-rock-metal-m\/","title":{"rendered":"Bass Sounds We Love \u2013 Part 2: Rock & Metal"},"content":{"rendered":"

We started the first article of this series with “Part 1: Pop<\/a><\/strong>,” the second round of\u00a0this 3 part “Bass Sounds We Love” is all about Rock and Metal!<\/p>\n

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Part 2: Rock & Metal<\/h2>\n

Hardrock<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n\"AmpegMany bass sounds in this genre are characterized by the company Ampeg<\/strong><\/a>, whose brutally powerful sounding amplifiers and cabinets have been regarded as the epitome of Rock \u2018n Roll since the 1960. However, if you don\u2019t have the means to obtain an entire Ampeg SVT HEAD<\/a><\/strong> with an 8 \u00d7 10 cabinet<\/strong><\/a>, you should consider the Ampegs SCR-D<\/strong><\/a>I. This DI box<\/a><\/strong> \/ preamp brings the classic Ampeg sound in portable format and also has other useful features such as an XLR output, headphone output, two AUX inputs, and more.<\/p>\n


\n\"Ampeg<\/a>A notable example is the Scrambler section: here, the original signal can be mixed with distortion \u2013 as shown in our example. The bass<\/strong> <\/a>here is a Fender Precision<\/strong><\/a> with maple fingerboard, which was played with plectrum.<\/p>\n

The settings: Drive: 11h, Blend: 1h, Bass: 2h, Mid: 1h, Treble: 3h<\/p>\n

Heavy Metal<\/strong><\/p>\nhttps:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/4.wav<\/a><\/audio>\n

No, the harsher styles do not always have to be brutally distorted – many metal bassists (like the aforementioned Dave Ellefson of Megadeth) use a super clean sound, in which the plectrum strokes are quite clear, to achieve accurate rhythmic accents.<\/p>\n

\"Darkglass<\/a>In our sound sample a clean sound is used and could be used as an intro. It was played with a Spector Euro<\/strong><\/a> plugged into a first-class Vintage Ultra-Preamp<\/strong><\/a> (which can also be used as a DI-Box<\/strong><\/a> due to its XLR output!) by the Finnish company Darkglass<\/strong> <\/a>.<\/strong> The Bass Chorus Deluxe<\/a><\/strong> \u00a0by MXR<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0was also used to expand the sound and to make it glide.<\/p>\n

\"MXR<\/a>In the sample, the Vintage Ultra<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0from Darkglass<\/strong> <\/a>wasn\u2019t used in its full glory. The distortion section, which can be activated by means of a second foot switch and can be added to the Clean sound, was not used. Instead the pedal was used here as a preamp for the crystal clear and ultra pure sound.<\/p>\n

The settings of the Vintage Ultra: Bass: 2h, Lo Mids: 500Hz @ 2h, Hi Mids: 15kHz @ 11h, Treble: 4h. The controls and switches relevant to the drive section were not used. Here are the settings for the MXR Bass Chorus Deluxe: Bass: 12h, Treble: 12h, Intensity: 100%, Rate: 11h, Width: 100%<\/p>\n

NuMetal (Djent)<\/strong><\/p>\nhttps:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/5.wav<\/a><\/audio>\n

Modern metal styles like Djent thrive on ultra-distorted riffs. The “Black Beast<\/a><\/strong>” pedal from the German company Okko <\/a><\/strong>is very well suited for this genre and allows bassists to keep up with guitarists. Although it\u2019s possible for the latter to already have a Black Beast.<\/p>\n

\"Okko<\/a>This pedal offers the most violent distortion, with loads of gain and sustain. The magic of this pedal is in the knob called KAPUTT (german for broken\/out of order). This control changes the gain structure from plain harmonic distortion to all out nasty fuzz. The sound sample was recorded with a Music Man Stingray bass, which was tuned down to C \u2013 because in this case: the deeper, the better!<\/p>\n

The settings: Kaputt: 11h, Bass: 3h, Treble: 11h, Gain: 7h<\/p>\n

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\u2192 Stay Tuned for Part 3: Funk, Reggae, HipHop & Electro \u2026 \ud83d\ude09<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2192 Click here for Part 1: Pop<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Professional bassist Lars Lehmann presents exclusive bass sounds for the heavier styles with the appropriate gear!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10022,"featured_media":33551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tblog_post_audio_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1083],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gear"],"category_colors":{"color_key":"gear","css_classes":{"text":"cat-gear","text_light":"cat-gear-light","bg":"cat-bg-gear","bg_light":"cat-bg-gear-light","border":"cat-border-gear","text_on_bg":"cat-text-on-gear"}},"reading_time":{"minutes":3,"formatted":"3 min"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10022"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10056436,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33494\/revisions\/10056436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}