Bass players are so underrated. As a guitarist of 30+ years, I can't express how important a good bassist is in a band. Without them the drums become hallow and guitars sound weak. They bridge a gap in sound between the two instruments. So if you're a bassist that's feeling under appreciated and sick of the jokes, here's a big THANK YOU from me.

5:30 Was always fascinated by sounds that are ugly on their own but sound amazing within the context of the track. What metaphor for life.

My first electric guitar is in the post arriving this week and I've been pouring through the guitar based vids on produce like a pro. There was already so much good content but I guess it just keeps coming? Thanks for another great video :)

I've outgrown many of the "producers" here on KZfaq, but not you. You're always fresh and original and most importantly, inspirational. I appreciate you.

Warren: ''not that much distorton'' Also Warren: *squashes that DI signal into a twix bar*

MAN that's a fantastic trick. Thanks for the walkthrough!

I've had my tiny mind blown watching this. that bass trick is insanely clever, the guitar sound alone is lovely but with that bass it is so gorgeous i want to emulate it immediately. Amazing.

Hi Friend, I have learned so many great things from my mentors, Jack Douglas, Don Smith, Brian Carlstrom, Olly Alcock and of course my very good friend my Dave Jerden. Dave's list of Production is one of the most impressive around and this Guitar recording trick comes directly from him, it can be heard in every one of the great 'Alice In Chains' Albums he made! Please let me know your tips and tricks as well!

This is an absolutely great thing! What I also learned from Bryan back in the day - he used 3 amps per one guitar channel. Meaning, you would play the guitar part but there would be 3 tracks recording instead of 1. That way he covered each frequency range (bass, mids, hi) using a different amp. So, now imagine... 3 track per side - that's 6 gtr tracks already. Then you overdub them - that's 12!!!.. and then there could be some wider, more heavy choruses needed when a "middle man" (another guitar part which stands in the middle of the mix) comes in... It took me a while to figure out how to record like that on my own. The sound is... immense! Massive and literally flowing out of the speakers. Thank you, Warren, for bringing this out!

Fantastic tip, Warren! Definitely trying that one out. Two tricks I use for massive guitars are: 1. Do a left and right dbl of just the higher strings in the chord/riff 2. left/right additional dbl but make it an inversion

Thats genius... im definitely gonna try this. I usually quad track guitars, 2 hard panned rhythm and 2 identical new performances half panned with 2 tracks of bass; one performance split into high and low with disrtion on the highs but this is a new level! What a cool trick!!

Great tip from one of the true greats of Rock Music Mr Dave Jerden! Thanks for sharing Warren!

Very cool. I've seen people do the "copy, EQ, re-paste" thing for that mid-range nastiness. This way does feel a little more immediate from the tiny variations.

This is the same concept, and another good reason.... to have a baritone guitar in your studio. Love it!

You made me really love music production and sound engineering recently, it’s a real pleasure to watch your videos, I learn a lot of stuff, and I consider buying your book, to learn more and more! Keep up!

This Channel is the channel on youtube with the best Content ever. Thanks Warren we love you so much for all you work what you do for us.

Wow! I'm listening to your channel for a long time and for me its the best place to learn on and on. But this simple trick with the bass and the wah is stunning. Thank's for the time you are investing. And thank's to your family to give you this time beside your main job, I think, they don't see you a lot. Please carry on.

This makes me want to spend the day in the studio. But I am buried in the business side of the studio... so cool! Thank you!

I can't believe I didn't hear this trick on my fave tracks before. Seems so simple but awesome. Firing up the DAW right now. Thanks WH.

“That’s ugly. On it’s own, it’s SUPER ugly... let’s put it in the track!” Lol

Fantastic tip Warren

When I lay down my tracks they sound nothing like what I’m hearing when you do. Yours sound like they have been preprocessed even as they are going to disk. It’s a testament to your ability.

You are correct sir... I have a crybaby 535Q that has the rotary knob that allows me to set how much of a frequency sweep the pedal utilizes. Very nice wah indeed!

That’s a trick I’ve not heard of before! Will try it out, thanks so much for sharing!

BRILLIANT TRICK. WILL BE USING THIS FOR SURE

Wow, once again you've bedazzled me with a cool trick to add to my production toolbox. Thanks Warren, you continue to let out all the secrets and I applaud you for sharing information without the ego.....well done my friend!

Aww inspiring. I had thought about this n people said you dont need 2 bassists or bass lines. Nah im doing this! Thanks for the awesome ideas.🍻🍻🍻

I LOVE this technique, and I hadn't a doubt in my mind this video was going to be great, BUT I gotta comment on that Yamaha guitar, that is a lovely instrument right there, and the paint job is flawless, what a treat!

Wow, I’d never have thought about this! It’s really great, I’ve tried it once and I can’t do without out anymore! As we wanted those big guitars in the studio with my band, for the first EP we will release in a few months, we did four pairs of electrics: one with a Big Muff in a big cab for the low end, one with a Proco RAT in the same amp as our main sound, one with a Friedman BE-OD as a clangy/crunchy tone, to have all the agressivity of the attacks (as Green Day did on every album since American Idiot), and one with a DS-1 in the smallest amp we could find, to have all the high end that is super ugly on its own but really adds to the whole sound! And of course, this trick!

That’s a really great tip. Thanks Warren!

A lot of metal guys will do something similar with the bass track when recording--you'll record one DI bass track and have another with a ton of distortion, and EQ the hell out of it by completely cutting the highs and lows until there's just a terrible sounding mid-range distorted bass. Then you blend that sucker with the DI bass and it makes the overall track sound HUGE. I started doing it on my own stuff and it really does work. I'll have to try this wah trick though, that's a really great idea actually.

Love the SSL bookshelf in the background :)

This is the very technique to add a touch of bottom end. Thanks Warren for the tip. I might be able to tame my Mesa Boogie recto yet,

Wow! Ah, I'll never remember this, when I need it. D-string, D-string, D-string, Wah-pedal, Wah-pedal, Wah-pedal...

best guitar(6 str.) i ever got i recorded with 2 mics on same speaker, a 414 close 1" from cone, 2" from edge and a neumann overhead pencil mic 3ft behind akg and centered on speaker . a little moving to stop phase but when it clicked it sounded sweet.

You can also drop the low root and and play the 5th and the 8th (octave) ala papa roach to faux baritone mixed with that bass trick will KILL

Today i tried to do this trick and works perfectly, is really awesome that every cord is powerful and have good depth. Perfect for heavy chorus

Seems like it’d be even bigger and more huge if you moved the wah slightly for the left and right. Worth experimenting! Thanks so much for the tip.

Very cool, Warren & this could be a solution to keeping a bassist from getting too bored, lol.

Gotcha and it's awesome! I do that in a parallel bus using an EQ with a fuzz.

This is a fantastic channel and this video is really seriously simple but sooo helpful. i wish that I had found this before I started putting my own music videos together. it will certainly help me to enhance my future ones. Nice one Warren!

Wow! Freaking epic! I always tell guys that I record, including my own band mates, that what really makes a good solid recording is the stuff that you don't really always notice when it's in there, but you would definitely notice when it is not! Great video!

You can hear the difference it makes - Thanks for sharing this with us, whereas you could have just kept it to yourself! - Also, and I'm saying this as a guitar player, the drums on that track sound amazing! The snap on that snare is something else.

Saw this video and implemented the bass guitar trick throughout a band’s stoner rock record. Clients couldn’t stop smiling during playback. Thanks!

I was watching a video on Rick Beato’s channel and it was discussing Boston’s “More Than A Feeling”. He was showing a similar trick where they blended some real nasally, cocked wah sounding guitars with the main guitar sound and it really filled them out and made them sound HUGE! I play electronic metal and decided to try this and it makes a load of a difference. Very much in the same vain. Thanks so much!

Thanks for sharing this trick! So simple, yet so effective!

“Not everyone has a baritone guitar”. Is that the understatement of the century?!! Great tip and video!

We do this a lot in EDM too. It's called a, "mid bass".

I have actually done the almost-opposite to make the BASS sound a bit more articulate. It only works on heavy-ish rock stuff where the bass was played with a relatively clean, scooped, brand new roundwound strings, played with a pick. I will just plug my strat into the bass amp and play the exact same bassline, except it's an octave up because it's a guitar, on the strat neck and middle pickups. It can also work with the bridge and middle, except my strat is a "fat-strat" and the bridge hum-middle single coil position doesn't sound like it would on a standard strat. It can work with both pickups on a tele though. Either way, use a "quack" setting on a guitar with one pickup reverse-wound, plug it into the same amp you used for bass, play the exact same thing you played on the bass, and add it in very low in the mix (like -28db or -26db, with the bass at -14 or so).

holy crap that's magic! thanks for sharing!!!

I love this dude. Learn a lot and he's easy to listen/watch. Just a cool dude. I love mixing, i can't get enough. Being a musician and learning to mix yourself takes it to a whole new level

Cool trick. Getting that thin, nasty bass sound is basically all I've ever managed to coax from an EHX Bass Blogger pedal. May finally have found a use for it! Cheers Warren.

That's a neat trick. Love the attitude it adds to those guitars!

I track a third guitar panned centre EQd with a little less bass and treble to get a wall of guitars. Much less messy than quad tracking. Can’t wait to try this trick though. Great video mate.

Very nice tip, thanks for sharing!

I love it! Warren you are a brilliant and genuine teacher in this community.

This really helps ,,greetings from philippines,,,thank you very much sir

Thank you so much for making this video!!! By using the bass trick my guitars instantly sound so much better- what I’ve started doing is panning the D string bass right and then playing the same thing an octave down panned left and it sounds so cool Thanks!!!

Very cool - I've been on a journey to achieve the same idea with incredibly chimey, pristine clean ambient tones - not an easy thing to do right!!

Thanks Warren , excellent tip, massive guitars , I love it .

Just saw this! And exactly when I needed this awesome trick! Thanks again Warren for the Best content out here!

Another super helpful video! Thanks again

just tried this and it's amazing

Great bass/guitar trick! I'm gonna try it for sure ! Thank you Warren and have a super nice day ;-)

Great trick, & you can really hear it drive the guitar tone on the second note (D) of the progression. Thanks!

Just what i needed to start the day. Thanks Warren!

Great trick! Just what I needed.

Sooo glad I watched this. I just recently purchased a cheap bass (Ibanez mikro) now I can't wait to try this trick. I've simply been doubling and panning the rhythm guitar R/L and was still missing something, this may be the answer

Warren, this is AWESOME!!! What a sound! Thank you for this precious trick, I think I will use it a lot, not only for angry rock parts, but also for fattening electric guitars in general!

Cool, it added focus to the riff as well. Thanks Warren.

Great tip! A cocked wah is a great trick in many situations! It sounds dirty (spoken or played) like rock and roll should!

Wonderful technique Warren thanks for sharing it. YOU rock!!!

Dude, Warren you rule man. I love your channel and the vibe you bring to this vocation. Thanks for everything!

My suggestion is the guitar sound for the song ''Best of you'' from Foo Fighters, I am not really into rock but those guitars have really sounded speciall for me

That's so cool!!! Going to try this tomorrow. Thank you for sharing this!

Always something to learn here! Thanks Mr. Huart.

Fantastic technique. I have to try this! Thank you Warren.

Thank you so freaking much for the advise! Looking forward to applying it in the studio ;)

Mixing our own album and your videos have and are a massive help...thank you

Nice Job Warren, Thank you!

Working on an album now. Haven't laid my guitar tracks yet. Thinking very seriously about trying this technique. Thanks for the tip!

Great tip! It’s very noticeable. Thanks.

This one was a great one! Thanks! I love your channel!

Muy buen material. Gracias por la recomendación nico astegiano

Hi Warren, thanks ever so much for sharing this fantastic technique, it certainly focuses the mid range and is a great way to add some extra weight to the guitar track.

Hi and thx for the great tip ! I have a Jim Dunlop CryBaby 535Q but I'm not sure this is the one you were talking about. It has a 6 points knob on the right side to select the length of the range and a Q and boost knobs on the back to make Q more or less narrow and ajust the volume. Tool, RATM, Satch, etc. Awsome pedal 👌

Fantastic. I've been thinking about doing just this kind of thing with a bass because it allows you to play way up the neck when simply doubling which can add a very warm mid-range focus to the key notes driving the melody from the rythm guitar. You could use a static flanger filter effect instead of the wah to get a slightly different flavor of bandpass.

that was a great sound.usually i would put a EH micropog on for lower octaves but you can definitely hear a processed octave drop instead of the more clear lower register provided by the bass guitar.that's the trick i'll be using from now on - i'll keep the octave divider for any live playing :)

WoW...That's IMPRESSIVE...I love your guitar videos as a guitar player too...but this time your guitar from the beginning was really heavy! I loved it💟😊

absolutely incredible. So simple too

THANK YOU

Thanks so very much for all your work! So inspired and wonderful / I try watch a little more everyday! Best wishes from the Isle Of Wight 🇬🇧✌️

Awesome man, thanks! Gotta love easy tricks like this!

Again another cool trick. Thank you warren. 😊

Great tip! Definitely looking forward to trying this in the future. Thanks for your content.

This is just beautiful. Thanks for this tip!

So incredibly simple and sooo freaking cool. THANKS \m/

Cool trick I will try it, thanks Warren for another great video.

Thanks Warren. You have me some Cues & options on how Pan my Guitars in the Mix with my latest song I'm working on. Cheers & God Bless.

That's awesome! Thank you for sharing this!