The secret to amazing guitar tone? A great bass tone!
You’ve heard us say a million times that the key to great guitar tone is dialing in the right bass tone – and you know why we keep saying it? Because it’s effing TRUE – and yet you still see people spending a fraction of the time on bass that they do on guitar. I get it: nobody gets excited about bass. But the cold truth is that you better LEARN to get excited about it because you simply aren’t gonna get good guitar tone without it.
In this clip from July’s Nail The Mix session, WZRD BLD and Jeff Dunne dial in an absolutely CRUSHING bass tone using the session from EMMURE’s “Flag Of The Beast.” They use the familiar 3-track splitting technique you’ve probably seen before (one track each sub, clean and distorted tones) but with a couple cool details you probably haven’t, such as editing the distorted track to kick in only during key parts of the arrangement and getting great tones out of a few rarely-used Pod Farm amps.
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