Dialing in huge metal bass tones using amp sims (w/ Forrester Savell + Karnivool)

Massive prog rock bass tone!

Learn how to get a truly gorgeous bass tone in your mix using amp sims in this tutorial from Forrester Savell using the multi-tracks for “Simple Boy” by Karnivool.

This clip is from Forrester’s Mixing Progressive Rock Bass Fast Track in URM Enhanced. He uses Pro Tools, a bass DI, IK Multimedia Amplitube, Avid Eleven guitar amp sim, Waves GTR, Toneforge Menace, Auto Align, and Time Adjuster, but the same approach will work in any DAW with any amp sim (including any of the free ones).

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