It's not just Important. It's Everything!

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Heavy Guitar is more than just tuning your instrument as low as possible. There's a missing Element.
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About Spectre Sound Studios:
I'm Glenn Fricker, engineer here at Spectre Sound Studios. I love making records, and after doing it for sixteen years, I want to pass on what I've learned. On my channel you can find tutorials on how to record guitar, bass, real drums and vocals. There's reviews and demos of tube amps, amp sims, drums, mics, preamps, outboard gear, Electric Guitar, Bass Guitar, and plugin effects.
We've covered Moon on the Water, played Bias FX, given you the absolute best in Stupid Musician Texts, ranted & raved about bass guitar, and this channel is where The Eagle has Landed.
Everything you've wanted to learn about recording Hard Rock & Heavy Metal can be found right here on this channel!
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@lukehenderson 7 ай бұрын

Just got Element Bass and within 15 minutes it had transformed my bass tone on a song I've been agonizing over for weeks. Now everything sounds so much better!

@robspectre1973 7 ай бұрын

Bass is absolutely the most overlooked instrument in the band. Imagine TOOL with a lackluster bassist.

@mrcoatsworth429 7 ай бұрын

Or Iron Maiden or Motörhead.

@dogbiscuits752 7 ай бұрын

Or Death

@DM-rc4yu 7 ай бұрын

I mean, it depends on the band, right. As much of an injustice was the way Metallica treated Jason, AJFA has that iconic dry heavy sound.

@mrcoatsworth429 7 ай бұрын

@@DM-rc4yu and justice for all's "iconic" crappy sound you mean?

@vascofmdc 7 ай бұрын

or Primus

@withinthrall1445 7 ай бұрын

Very brave of Glenn to make a bass plugin that requires them to learn how to use an eq. He’s really out here encouraging us to think for once 🖤

@gilbertspader7974 7 ай бұрын

What’s EQ stand for ???? What does RTV stand for ????? Why am I standing on RxR tracks ?????

@RequiemWraith 7 ай бұрын

@@gilbertspader7974EQ stands for Ego Quashing, THEY'RE TRYING TO GET RID OF US!!!!!

@KyleSevenoaks 7 ай бұрын

I love how everyone that hears my mixes are like "I CAN HEAR THE BASS OMG!" MORE BASS CONTENT PLEASE GLENN!

@gilbertspader7974 7 ай бұрын

MORE BASS CONTENT PLEASE Please Please…..

@braydenhoxie8701 6 ай бұрын

“The bassist is like a pilot of an airplane. If the bassist crashes, everyone crashes.” - Cliff Burton

@Funkybassuk 7 ай бұрын

I’m a bass player and I love all your trolling of bass players. You had a hilariously offensive t-shirt relating to bass players once upon a time. This is a very clever bass plugin btw.

@SpectreSoundStudios 7 ай бұрын

I still have the shirt. We’re just allowed to say that in KZfaq anymore. What a bunch of dicks!

@WilDBeestMF 8 күн бұрын

@@SpectreSoundStudiosCan we still get the rule #2 shirts, Glenn? I'd love to bag one.

@bassplayer137 7 ай бұрын

I love the metalocalypse support, brutal! 🤘🏻

@saikousocial 7 ай бұрын

Such a great show, hahaha.

@AfroRedMusic 7 ай бұрын

As a professional bassist in Jazz and R&B, but started as a guitarist in heavy music I loved as a kid; having just (unofficially) joined an amazing Death metal band Avé Inanis, as well as in the writing process of a new, heavier EP with my bestfriend Samiah; this is EXACTLY what I need man! You're always excellent in your approach and I appreciate all you do for clearing out the bullshit from our "perfect" ears 🤣 can't wait to add this to my bass tone!

@FelipeAndreoliBass 7 ай бұрын

Sounds awesome!

@Clinthopanonymous 7 ай бұрын

Really diggin the EQ nice and big on the interface. It makes sense.

@rjbrando9616 7 ай бұрын

Bass literally defines the way genres feel and sound.

@seanlynch6737 7 ай бұрын

More Bass content Glen, we need you

@jloiben12 7 ай бұрын

Bass is the foundation of rock, metal, rap, and a whole lot more

@OphilliaBalls 2 ай бұрын

Literally almost every genre

@metramaks 7 ай бұрын

That's why Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden are one of my favorite bands. Because Geezer and Steve have one of the greatest bass tones ever.

@ShamanWS6 6 ай бұрын

Vision of Disorder's "From Bliss to Devestation" is a good example of this. The bass make ALL the difference, it's just brutal but it also is highly musical with a hard to pin bottom end, which it wouldn't be without the bassist in that mix.

@andrewafonso1 7 ай бұрын

As a guitar player, I approve this with enthusiasm. Bass (and drums) are the foundation of any good band.

@niteshades_promise 7 ай бұрын

I just got an awesome bass tone with a kick drum mic 1 foot in front of the speaker. Thanks to Glenn.🤔🍻

@bogstandardash3751 7 ай бұрын

I imagine being a really astute bass player who can just turn up and play once you know the key is statistically the best way to be in a successful band.

@saulgoodman.exe_ 7 ай бұрын

I don't know the key but I know when I'm out of it. When me and the boys are jamming and really feeling it, I can go in/out of key strategically. It's a special feeling

@bogstandardash3751 7 ай бұрын

@@saulgoodman.exe_ oh yeah it's not everything. It's more that if a bass player knows key and scales, you can say to them " this is in e minor, jam along till you find what you want to play".. which tends to get memorised a lot better, and is much more efficient than reminding him of the route notes on every track, for the 40th time, because he couldn't be bothered to learn to the tab you wrote out.

@Onemoretake01 7 ай бұрын

Ear training is key... I've been the bassist in bands before, and believe me... my ear training is what helped me most, and knowing the fretboard

@DarthCiliatus 7 ай бұрын

Real. I get random people messaging me on Facebook asking if I can play bass in their band. If you're a somewhat competent bassist it's harder to not be in a band than it is to join a band.

@saulgoodman.exe_ 7 ай бұрын

@@DarthCiliatus Tell people you can play a Primus song and you're in. I can get through a few easier ones but slapping is a deficiency for me. I make up for it with 3 finger technique. Point is that, yes playing bass is indeed the easiest gig to get.

@void_snw 7 ай бұрын

One of my favorite bands, Billy Talent, made me believe the guitar had a LOT more bass in it than it really does, because the way they play together and are mixed together makes them feel like one hugely fat instrument and it's so damn good.

@cephalicwasteland3504 7 ай бұрын

I loved this band so much growing up damn Prisoners of today is my favorite

@SpectreSoundStudios 7 ай бұрын

Now where did the name, "Billy Talent" come from? :)

@hotrodjones74 7 ай бұрын

That was the same guitar and bass paradigm for Weezer's blue album. It's cool when the bass and guitar play together.

@StoneGraveBand 6 ай бұрын

I think bass is overlooked because of how difficult it is to get great tones

@MaxSxB 7 ай бұрын

Holy crap dude made the perfet hybrid between Parallax and Mammoth. Like a dream come true. Each one has something missing from the other, the void has been filled. I need to grab this ASAP !

@PetiteLameque 7 ай бұрын

An old music teacher of mine used to say that drums and bass are like the foundation and roof of a house. Doesn’t matter how fancy is the house in between, if the roof and foundation leaks, you have a house full of water. Same with a song.

@picksalot1 7 ай бұрын

The Bass tone sounds awesome in the Plugin. Maybe you should talk to Josh at JHS Pedals about making a Pedal to deliver those tones live.

@satanssurfer5965 7 ай бұрын

Hey that's a great idea.

@adamphillips6747 7 ай бұрын

It’s any Darkglass pedal.

@dustinsmith8658 6 ай бұрын

@@adamphillips6747Yeah but JHS would probably charge a third of the price

@Lilrockerdude13 7 ай бұрын

Been wanting a Bass rig, but for $100 hot damn this is a steal for the home recording enthusiast. Why do you gotta keep pushing these amazing products to us Glenn!

@captainobviousn7551 7 ай бұрын

Thank you Glen. Have been waiting for this video and you didn’t dissapoint. This preset is just killer. You and everyone at Spectre Digital did an outstanding job. Can't wait to hear more mixes an appriciate the butal beauty of this Bass tone. Rock on Glen

@jsquire1331 7 ай бұрын

As a bassist who changes his strings, I am happy to hear you give us some love.

@jsquire1331 7 ай бұрын

I do have the GK bass sim, since I play a GK irl and it's so much easier to mess with it in the box. I am quite interested in your sim as well.

@NicuMihai 7 ай бұрын

2:23 EY MOM! I made it into Glenn's video!

@brandnewyou5254 7 ай бұрын

Not trying to be an asshole. That bass Sim is exactly what kids in future need for bass.

@johnmcquay82 6 ай бұрын

Absolutely love it. Going to head straight over and buy it. I'm going to use it for live music and see how it's received.

@nickx1754 7 ай бұрын

Congratulations on the release, Glenn, and a major thank you!!

@bassguy3374 7 ай бұрын

Bought it based on this video, it is every bit as good as advertised. I've tried many of the bass amp sims over time, and they always came close, but needed something else to get there. Element is your one stop bass shop.

@philipbeasley72 7 ай бұрын

The justice for bass intro meme video was awesome!

@crackedspyglass 7 ай бұрын

Yeah, that's the sound. It really does have the special sauce that the other major bass plugins out there are missing.

@EvilBlakey 7 ай бұрын

YEEEEEESSSS!!!! Thank you Glenn, I was literally (not figuratively, literally) seconds away from pulling the trigger on NDSP Parallax when I got your e-mail. This looks like it does everything I've been missing from Parallax! Instant purchase!

@kirshmanFlash 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for the walk through Glenn! I'm gonna check this out

@RobertRays 7 ай бұрын

Glenn, I have been asking about this plug-in for months upon months now. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! This is exactly what I’ve been wanting and needing! Best early Christmas gifts ever!

@razisharbini7569 6 ай бұрын

Congratulations Glennn!! Weve been waiting for this 🔥

@jettisonedguy257 7 ай бұрын

The Elephant in the room has been addressed. Awesome.

@sEaNoYeAh 7 ай бұрын

Having seen Muse (repeatedly) and Queens of the Stone Age this year, I can attest to the fact that great bass tone means a huge sound. Both bands are rock but sound massive compared to almost every metal band I've seen over the years.

@bassmandudge 7 ай бұрын

Yup..I was the bass player in a Muse tribute act for 6 years....my live rig was insane to get those tones... But soooo much fun

@zachiswayposi1 7 ай бұрын

*Hysteria intensifies*

@Bobby_Uterus 7 ай бұрын

Thank you Glenn. Been waiting for this one. Appreciate all you do for us. 😘

@grenzmord 7 ай бұрын

First of all: Great Plugin, it's already able to create a heavy Bass Tone with one single Plugin, just as advertised. I do have a small number of feature requests though: - A Master EQ: Basically just the same EQ again on the Master, to quickly tweak a tone you are already happy with. - Gate on a per Channel Basis: The Gate works, but on a 3 channel patch with different drive levels i would like to gate the more distorted channels more agressively than the more mellow channels. - A transient Designer: on the modern channel, a one knob transient Shaper that gives you sustain on the left (for fuzzy/grindy sounds) and short drive spikes on the right for extra percussive sounds.

@kdakan 7 ай бұрын

You can get the same tone using a bass amp sim, distortion/fuzz, an eq, and a compressor/limiter, all that come built in with the presets in Logic Pro or the free Garageband. Same tools bundled as a new plugin, not for me.

@DavidShankle1 7 ай бұрын

Great Job Glen sounds killer.

@hambuiltstudios 7 ай бұрын

That's awsome. The bass plug-in makes me think of mudvayne's, and jinjer's bass players. Huge and amazing!

@ideitbawxproductions1880 4 күн бұрын

Ryan & Eugene are amazing! Finally got to see Jinjer live at the Phoenix in Toronto last year, and they brought the fuckin' house down! Still need to see Mudvayne live, that'd be a helluva show, even just to see Ryan rip his Warwick a new asshole lol

@BlackChromeJamTracks 7 ай бұрын

Hell Yeah!!! Finally the wait is over!!! Can't wait to get my hands on this. Thx Glenn!!!

@seahuntersammy 7 ай бұрын

Just got the plugin, I absolutely ADORE it!!! Thanks glenn!!!

@SpectreSoundStudios 7 ай бұрын

Glad you’re loving it! Go get a killer mix!

@andrij.demianczuk 7 ай бұрын

I know we make a lot of fun of bassists, but honestly if it’s done well it can take a track into the stratosphere. I’ve really been listening to a lot of Parkway Drive and While She Sleeps lately and the way those guys hit the low notes is insane. Aaran and Pie (Jia) are two of my favourite musicians :)

@Daniel_Batal 7 ай бұрын

Very cool! 😎

@BeamRider100 7 ай бұрын

That's actually fkn amazing and great gag at the end there too.

@russthompson7994 7 ай бұрын

I just snagged this deal. Thanks Glenn!

@bassimprovjams3772 3 ай бұрын

Glad to see your channel give love to the Bass, would love to see more bass talk and gear on here 🤘

@ReneLangerWien 7 ай бұрын

Wohooo.. being a bassist and also the bands recording guy.. I'm so happy right now. This plugin will definitely help to dial in an amazing bass sound for our records, and save me hours placing and shifting the mics on my cabs, while also dealing with 2 DI signals (dry and after the pedals).

@michaelolz 7 ай бұрын

We are finally getting some bass love! Thank you very much, Glenn! This cleared a LOT up for me. I've been struggling to find proper bass tone inside high gain sound environment. This pro tip really means a lot!

@SpectreSoundStudios 7 ай бұрын

Glad to help! Hopefully you grab a copy & start getting results!

@inglouriouswoof 6 ай бұрын

Finally someone gets it. I was a bass player for a long time and hated how my performance would just get buried in the end result. I have a record from 10 years that sounds good, but man it would sound even better if there was more bottom end. Definitely will need to get this plugin.

@WireMan7620 7 ай бұрын

Definitely getting this for when my band starts recording! Thank you so much for making this

@Bigscott4130 7 ай бұрын

So want this... Not gonna be able to get it this weekend with Christmas coming up, but it'll be worth it, and floating Glenn and the gang a few extra duckets is not a problem. Thanks Glenn. This will help get me to that dUg Pinnick type tone I've been chasing since the mid-80's.

@stillavenue 7 ай бұрын

This is killer Glen!

@handicappedhoods 7 ай бұрын

I’ve been waiting months for this, nice

@sutyi06 7 ай бұрын

Big. Can't wait to try it out.

@lexzbuddy 7 ай бұрын

Cool, this is exac5ly what I've been looking for. Thank you!

@CreativeMindsAudio 7 ай бұрын

Nice! Wish I had this a decade ago when I struggled getting a good bass tone in mixes that had barely any tone in it. Great plug-in! Good job Glenn and crew! Can’t afford it now, but in my signal chain it’s like it combines 3-4 plugins I’ll reach for: amp sim, distortion, sub synth, and eq. Neural dsp has to watch out for spectre digital!

@stevies4525 7 ай бұрын

There's a band I used to play drums for and because of me we went through a few bassists due to the fact they couldn't even lock in with me as the drummer. I also play bass and guitar and have had to step up and re-track the bass parts. Now that I've tooted my own horn, Element is mind blowing.

@Emily_M81 7 ай бұрын

I love how simple you made this for us bass players; you're doing the Lord's work, Glenn.

@Jatherton11 7 ай бұрын

I like how it adds the low mid and high mid so you don’t need a separate parametric EQ. Also I like the added compressor so you may not need the compressor bus. Notice the deep cut around 500 to leave room for guitar.

@kevinmckinzie 7 ай бұрын

"Fix My Bass". LMAO!! You should put that into a guitar pedal and make millions!

@codexstudios 7 ай бұрын

Thats a killer default preset. And I agree, bass contributes so much to what you would assume is just the guitar.

@riffnastyhubanks5714 7 ай бұрын

Most delightful 😮

@lesterunwin 7 ай бұрын

that default bass tone is a thing of beauty ❤️

@audibletapehiss3764 7 ай бұрын

Looks like a great way to help people re-discover the character and guts of bass in the mid-range frequencies. Bass should never have been neutered down to "attack plus sub," just like kick drum never should have been reduced to that. Mids are where the balls of a mix live, and kick and bass are where the balls of your band live, much to the chagrin of... well you know who you are.

@m.a.6478 7 ай бұрын

Glenn: drops a video on a Friday in November The Spectre Digital Website: Gleeeeennnnn!!

@coastalgeorgia6558 7 ай бұрын

indeed.!! ... and justice for all with bass highly recommended.

@properpainting3556 7 ай бұрын

Glad you went to both pick and fingers. At firsT glance was only seeing pick, but when you did the weak bass track demo, (I assume was fingers) it turned it all around. Looks fun!

@Wangavision 7 ай бұрын

I just grabbed the plugin... looking forward to giving it a crack!

@PitchTheCatFood Ай бұрын

I got Element Bass, Thanks Glen it REALLY makes a difference in my sound. 😃👍

@xx_cloud_xx5055 7 ай бұрын

Finally we bassists get something decent on the sim side. I swear we stay starving on all the new gizmos that guitarists get

@216trixie 7 ай бұрын

Brand new strings on my jazz Bass gave me an amazing sound for my album of original music.

@joerojas5448 7 ай бұрын

YAAAASSSSS! It sounds YUUGGGE!

@alexts4920 7 ай бұрын

Very nice! Its like parallax but with more functions!

@NiCadHeliPilot 7 ай бұрын

Extinction Level Event, Singularity, and Element! If there was _ever_ a time for me to get back into playing guitar (to spite my arthritis), the time is _now._ What a time to be alive! =^/,..,^=

@flash001USA 7 ай бұрын

That's a pretty damned good approach especially for heavy bass where you need the definition vs mud in the mix.

@MetalGuitarGuy 7 ай бұрын

Your editor is hilarious! lol great work...

@erikarko 7 ай бұрын

FINALLY!! Damn, it sounds GREAT!!

@kanped 7 ай бұрын

Picked this up and loving it so far. I had a song I was working on and was happy enough with the bass tone. Decided to duplicate the track, disable the 7(!) plugins I had used to get the original tone and drop this in so I could A-B it. It's immediately better, and this isn't even a metal song. This works just as well for clean tones.

@alexnasla 7 ай бұрын

Exactly! Its not meant just for metal songs! Any genre of music it can do!

@kanped 7 ай бұрын

@@alexnasla Thanks for the very quick help getting it running, too. Customer support is also excellent 👌

@BBfanfun 7 ай бұрын

Thank you for adding Depth without it being a Symphonic Chorus !

@PooNinja 7 ай бұрын

Clank, Grind and Bottom End sounds like awesome breakfast cereal spokes person. Element part of this nutritious mix . 🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽

@lightningjimmyjoejohnson6624 6 ай бұрын

having 3 tracks (low end, clank, and ampy distortion) for bass is what ive been doing for years on the advice of Kristian Khole. Cool someone made a standalone plugin that can do that without having the split it into 3 tracks and make a bus and all that

@James-eg3nf 7 ай бұрын

Absolutely 1000% agree….I’m primarily a guitarist but also play bass. For the longest time, bass was completely secondary in all my recordings, but a few years ago, I started to make it a much more significant (and sometimes the primary focus of) the recordings and mixes, and it has transformed my music to something sounding somewhat professional. I also try to play bass as much as I can when performing live and have put much more into my bass rig.

@Cpmnk 7 ай бұрын

Nam has some amazing bass tones for free, but this looks sick. Always great to have more bass plugins

@michaelsnydermusic 7 ай бұрын

Sold! I have struggled so much to get a good bass tone on my Helix, making me feel like an idiot. I have had no problems with getting my guitar tones there but bass? Way harder for me at least. Thanks Glenn!

@SpectreSoundStudios 7 ай бұрын

You’re very welcome! Enjoy!

@michaelsnydermusic 2 ай бұрын

@@SpectreSoundStudios4 months later and having just watched your video on using programed drums correctly I’m finally getting mixes I like. Thanks to your advice I finally found a unique guitar sound by using a Sunn amp and cab for half the tracks and an Orange Rockaverb with Greenbacks for the other half. Between that, the bass plug-in (which I’m using unless I need a fuzz sound) and the drums that finally sound realistic, I feel like I’m getting somewhere. Thank you Glenn.

@williamdesilva67 7 ай бұрын

Holy fuuuuuuuuuuuukkkkk!!!!!!! Sounded killer dude.. i rarely comment in these comment sections but dammmmmnn bro.. i had to put my 2 cents in on this one.. well done Glenn

@SpectreSoundStudios 7 ай бұрын

Thank you, William!

@thomasbaldiscola4671 7 ай бұрын

FINALLY some love for us Bassists out there! I've been playing bass for over 20 years and always been very serious about writing and locking in with the drummer. I've been playing with the Darkglass Ultra plugin for a few years now, but holy shit the bass plugin market is SLIM PICKINGS! Thanks for being serious about the role of a good bass player for a min! F U GLEENNN!!! 🤘🤘

@TinkMcGathy 7 ай бұрын

Just picked up the both of them. I’ve been waiting for a deal on the singularity but to have element too… I think my bass mixes will be the Shizzle now!! Can’t wait to get to my studio and try it.

@natrixxvision6997 7 ай бұрын

My bass player is NOT a rule #2 and I consider him to be the soul of the band. I write the tunes but…he holds it all together.

@zengroove16 Ай бұрын

U make some good points.

@gumbly4174 7 ай бұрын

I have a more unusual approach to the bass. Since it’s just 1 guitar, bass and drums, sometimes when our guitar player took a solo, it would sound kinda weird with him on a high register and me with low end. What we do now to get our more unique sound is that we make the guitar almost the same volume as the guitar (a little quieter) I play through guitar amps(that’s all I had at the time) and I add a little bit of drive and a little bit of reverb, then I do typical bass lines but when a guitar solo comes I play chords or play the line/chords an octave up to beef up the sound more. Also I have my mids 10, treble 5 and bass 4. It’s worked and we even started affine more lead bass and harmonizing the bass with the guitar. It’s not for everyone but we love it. 🤘

@brentwilliams5915 7 ай бұрын

Love the machine head burn my eyes shirt ! One of my favorite albums

@DavidAllenMD 7 ай бұрын

Ok yeah thats pretty dope

@wessmith9603 3 ай бұрын

Longtime 6string bassist This is the tone ive been searching for. Reminds me of myeong on train of thought or how intervals sounds. Makes me giddy with excitement to try!