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Good Bass Amps
Getting a bass for the first time in a couple of years. Opted to skip an amp for now since I have an iRig. What’re some decent apps to use with this setup?
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Honestly, for bass, you can make any DAW that has amps work. I use GarageBand and Cubasis with a fretless. They do great with a direct sound or a little amp modeling. I find any effects work too. The key is the mix knob. Start completely dry and just bring in as much as you need. It's easy to go too far and lose the fundamental bass tone and add way too many harmonics on the low end. Good luck!
Nembrini Audio's Blackice Beta Gamma is stellar - it's a vitrual clone of the Darkglass Alpha Omega amp:
Wow @Daveypoo i did not know this existed. Thank you man, I just bought a Harley Benton JB-75MN Black and I was looking for that Darkglass sound. Now I just gotta wait for it to ship from Germany to Texas.
Sweet! Well, this app will certainly get you there - glad I could help!
Nembrini PSA 1000jr is all I need for Bass on iOS, but I'm no pro.
@Daveypoo I am curious about your opinion PSAjr versus Blackice. That (plus Overload’s Bass Rigs1) was what I was looking at, but just one should be plenty if it’s right.
@DukeWonder @NoiseHorse
Nembrini Blackice, no question about it. The best single bass amp purchase you can make on iOS. The PSA1000 and 1000jr are also fantastic on bass, but they are preamps, and can work equally well on drums, vocals, guitar, synth, etc.. there’s no cabinet stage, these are amazing preamps that add analog warmth and colorful saturation, so kind of like plugging in a bass direct to the console for processing rather than a bass amp micd in a room. All three choices are tops.
Also highly recommend Bass Rigs Vol. 1 from th-u. A lot of different amp models and IRs for the price, lots of presets and dry profiles, amazing quality. Probably the best “collection” for bass from the multi purpose guitar apps.
@NoiseHorse PSA1000 and PSA1000 Jr. are both excellent, but as @JoyceRoadStudios rightly pointed out - they are preamps, so there's no cabinet simulator. I use PSA1000 a lot - the Nembrini stuff is fantastic all around, and the drive settings on the PSA apps are just excellent - but I haven't specifically applied these to bass or done a comparison.
Here's my video where I play with the PSA apps:
To be honest, I rarely use amp sims for bass as I have enough HW to cover that end should I need to, but Nembrini's Blackice really made me rethink that idea - it sounds SERIOUSLY good. If you want the Darkglass sound, that's the one.
I also use a hardware bass amp at home that's been a workhorse for years (Markbass!) but I've recently fallen in love with PSA100jr for processing just about anything. What an amazing piece of software! I've never actually put a bass guitar through it but I process Viking Synth bass sounds through it all the time (highly recommended combination!). Thus, I'll throw in my recommendation from a seasoned bassist that it brings all the frequencies and timbres you want for great (and practical) bass sounds.
Also, I don't really like cab sims with bass personally (maybe part of why I like that PSA preamp). Just seems to change and complicate things without necessarily making anything sound better. 99% of the time live, I'd actually just take a Sansamp DI and the tone direct from that is loads better than messing around with even the best amps. Stage amps are for pub gigging -- give me a DI and a monitor any day.
Is there actually any good simulator on iOS for Sansamps Bass Driver DI? That'd be amazing! Essential piece of kit for gigging bassists.
Mammoth is still on sale, at $7.99 usually like $13-$14, I don’t have it but I think people who own it do..
Bass Amp Deluxe is just ok.
Mammoth is awesome, but I don’t like flipping through pages to set my sound.
This one’s free.
https://apps.apple.com/app/id1559352936
I hadn’t thought about playing through a DAW like that. I’ve only ever tried using the iRig once with my bass and just used amplitube or whatever that one app is. I’ll have to try it through Cubasis.
Thanks all for the input. I’ll have to try some of this stuff out.
Amplitube’s bass amps are great but they are IAP. I have them all though and like them the best of any of the amp apps, although I haven’t tried the nembrini or mammoth (and don’t intend to, I’m all set for what I use on iOS in that department).
Garageband’s bass amps sound really good, certainly good enough for practicing, plus you can use the drummer very easily to accompany. And it’s free.
Look @DukeWonder - you're really opening Pandora's Box here. There are SO many different ways to go, using a DAW probably being the most flexible. Enjoy the journey, but remember that your ears are the final determining factor and if you dig it, then it's good!
Sage advice right there! Using your ears to determine what “sounds” the best, then also determining what “sits” the best in a mix, this is paramount. Often times the best bass tone that you’re jamming on is not necessarily the best center panned mono bass tone for recording.
Another app to throw into the pile is MixBox. If you already have it or plan to get it you could be all set with bass, at least on iPad. One of the modules is the Ampeg SVT Classic, and the app comes with mix ready bass presets around. This is the better purchase over amplitube bass iaps at this point, considering everything else MiXBox does.
Bass Deluxe is a good one. Simple, fairly transparent.
Picked up the personality of my fretless nicely.
A follow up. I’ve decided on ToneDeluxeV2 and Tonebridge for now. I really like the idea of Tonebridge.