BassAmp
TL;DW: BassAmp is an old plugin with new tweaks, that gives some bass guitar tones.
Here’s the plugin I thought I had last week!
This is BassAmp. (I’ve been asked to do amp sim type plugins, so it’s a start). Back in the day I experimented with some of these things, though I’ve always been more interested in wiring up physical hardware, especially for guitar distortions and things. I’ve brought this one up to date in some ways, debugging a problem with the ‘dub’ channel and using my modern techniques for dithering to the floating point bus, and so on.
It’s got basically a bright channel, midrange (which is just dry, as a slider), a bass channel with a characteristic woolly tone that has a kind of noisy blur on the small amount of treble it does have, and a ‘sub’ channel that really doesn’t work, so use it as a crazy special effect. BassKit might get you a cleaner sub-octave, but this will give you a trashy sub-octave that’s mostly garbage, even on a single-note line. So you’ll be leaving it off, I think.
I’m also working on a new EQ, on matrix reverb techniques (on livestream!), have revised all my Biquad filters to have simple dry/wet controls on the end as my inverse/dry/wet stuff didn’t work properly, have come up with a method with the new EQ to place adjustable filter range in the middle of the control even for extreme sample rates while leaving the full Nyquist range available on the same control, and I’ve fixed ClipOnly (that last, is available right now if you’re concerned). What was wrong with ClipOnly was that if you were using VST on a 64-bit wide audio buss, ClipOnly would give you output that only covered the 32 bit floating point buss, not the full 64. I found the problem (NOT by listening for it! :D ) and fixed it and now it’s fixed, so if you like attending to conceptual details like that, re-download it here: ClipOnly.zip
All this is supported by Patreon, of course. Like I said in the video, if you’re in trouble bail off the Patreon and I promise I’ll be okay. Or at least I will if I go have a rest and get some sleep: for some reason I’m really exhausted. Can’t imagine why, with such a calm week we’ve all been having :) anyway, Patreon whatever, still working on a bunch of stuff, also playing a lot more music livestreams these days and I’m available for tech/plugin questions once I stop jamming (or before I get rolling) so that’s me being a little more available.
Talk to ya later, plugin mongers :)
Unfortunately the Windows-versions still do not seem to work. The high frequency hiss is still there, the Dub-control crashes the plugin and the 64-bit version goes wildly stereo.
Thanks for all your hard work Chris
I also have the same high-frequency hiss problem Jussi reported in Reaper 64-bit (Windows).
Unfortunately in Reaper 64-bit (Windows) do not to work.
There is noise across the entire spectrum. Plugin stereo. Is that how it should be?
It works in my 64bit Reaper but it does introduce noise when the dub fader is above zero. The noise gets louder as the fader is pushed to higher values. Apart from that it sounds wonderful. Thanks Chris.
Hello, Chris! Thank you so much for your endless effort! I am using in Reaper and there is a very high frequency noise when using it.
Still lots of hiss on Win64, Reaper. Unfortunately unusable :-(
очень здорово! сразу все заработало! Спасибо за Вашу работу! звук бас гитары такой, как хочется: глубокий, убедительный и не гудит!
Still hiss on Reaper but works fine on Waveform and Bespoke, pretty weird… It’s a pity it can’t be used in Reaper because this plugin really sounds great and adds a lot of body to bass sounds.