As a free series plugin, the TSE 808 Tube Screamer VST sounds great. It based on the real circuit of the famous Tube Screamer. The plugin is available for Mac and Windows. Download the TSE 808 v2.0.1 from the official site HERE.
The X30 is emulating a high gain german preamp. (The technology used in this software is unfortunately outdated a long time ago (2009) and an update with improved accuracy and oversampling will come!) Read the included manual for more info. Related: Here’s a huge list of the Best Free VST Plugins ever. Krush by Tritik (Windows, Mac) Krush combines the crispy taste of the digital realm with the warmth of its drive stage and analog modeled resonant filters. A modulation section allows you to quickly add extra life to the sound by modulating any parameter.
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Free Bass Amp Simulators are really hard to find. There are some, but most of them are terrible.
So, in order to save you some time, since I already did some research on the topic, I’m going to share the ones I found that I think are worth trying.
I will also be including a Cabinet simulator at the end which will enhance the sound you can get quite a bit, especially for the plugins that only work as a preamp.
Table of Contents
Free Cabinet: NadIR by Ignite Amps
Nr. 1: GK Amplification 2 LE
Modelled after the Gallien-Krueger MB150 amp, the GK Amplification 2 LE can be used as a standalone application or as a VST/AAX/AU plugin.
It is the light version of the GK Amplification 2 Pro, which means that it only includes a single amp model with a single speaker and mic option compared to the full version which has more.
GK Amplification 2 LE includes all the functions and all controls of the original amp.
The great thing is that it can be used for recording in the studio or at home, for band practice, or even live performances since the delay isn’t noticeable.
It is available both for Windows and Mac OS.
Here’s the link to the official website.
Related: If you’re in need of better-sounding Bass VST plugins, then check out this post I wrote about the best Premium ones.
Nr. 2: Ignite Amps SHB-1
The SHB-1 is based on the real SHB-1 Extreme Bass Head which is a custom-built amp designed for the bass player of the band “Subhuman”.
Just like the previous amp on this list, the SHB-1 can be used for practice, recording and also for live performances.
This amp sim can do anything, from thick bass tones, to very tight funky sounds, all the way to heavy metal distorted sounds.
It works both on Windows and Mac OS.
Features
You can download it here.
Related: Here’s a list of the best FREE Guitar VST Plugins that sound great!
Free VST downloads: Black Water Reverb (Reverb by Black Water Music) - TAL-Reverb (Plate reverb by Togu Audio Line) - UD Reverb (Reverb by Utopian Dreams) - DigiVerb (Digital reverb by MB Audio Lab) - RoomConvpROT (Rotational room reverb by EXE Consulting) - FreeverbToo (Gate reverb by Sinusweb) - QuantumVerb (Convolution reverb by Quantum. Download the free plugin here: SAFE Reverb. SAFE Reverb is compatible with Mac OS X 10.6 and later as well as Windows and Linux. TAL-Reverb-2 by TAL-Togu Audio Line. TAL-Togu Audio Line’s TAL-Reverb-2 delivers clean, lush sounding reverbs that can be used to add shimmer and midrange complexity to your production. Free vst shimmer reverb. Free Reverb VST Plugins Reverb is easily one of the most important sound effects in modern music, across all genres. From large, spacious fade-outs to short, tubular reverberations, it is an incredibly powerful tool for transforming a sound. With shimmer effect. It is made for really long and deep reverbs, and the pitchshifter in the reverb engine takes care of the shimmer effect sound. Available for Windows as 32bit VST. Go to mainpage to download.
Nr. 3: TSE BOD v3
The TSE B.O.D. is a digital replica of the SansAmp Bass Driver DI pedal, which is a very popular bass preamp DI box with distortion, presence, and EQ controls.
This is a very simple plugin which works great and doesn’t really use much CPU power.
The free plugin is available in VST, AU, and AAX formats, with support for both 64 and 32 bit.
You can download it here.
Nr. 4: Amplitube Custom ShopTse 808 Vst Free Download
Amplitube is a standalone program, which means that you can run it on its own without the need of a DAW.
It’s also available, however, as a plugin for VST/AU/AXX format.
It is primarily a Guitar amp simulation program, since most amps and effects you get are geared towards guitar sounds, however it also comes with a bass amp simulation which sounds quite good.
One of the features of the Custom Shop is the ability for you to “try before you buy” individual pieces of gear. You can demo fully working gear for a period of 72 hours.
You basically get a Free version of AmpliTube 4 with 24 models including a digital chromatic tuner, 9 stomps, 4 amps, 5 cabs, 3 mics, 2 rack effects.
If you’d then like to add more effects you can simply purchase them directly from the app itself.
Tse X50 Vst Free
Here’s the official Website.
If you’re also interested in Free Drum VST Plugins, make sure to read this article I wrote on that topic!
Nr. 5: Bass Grinder Free Edition by Audio Assault
This must be one of the simplest plugins out there.
It comes with two amplifiers and three cabinets, nothing more.
It’s incredibly easy to use thanks to the simplicity of the controls.
Available in VST/AU/RTAS/AAX for Windows and Mac OS.
You can download it here.
Related: I love free plugins, so I put together a list of the best Free Synth VST Plugins out there which you can check out here,
Nr. 6: Ronald Passion Bass Preamp
This Bass Preamp is an analog tube bass preamp effect plug-in which is really simple to use, sounds great and you get the cab-emulation built into it which is great since you can activate and de-activate it whenever you want.
If you don’t want to use the built in cab emulation simply add the one I recommend at the end of this list.
Controls
You can download it here.
Here’s a list of two affordable and high-quality audio interfaces which will allow you to get a better bass sound.
Free CabinetNadIR by Ignite Amps
NadIR is a zero latency, dual Impulse Response convolver, designed to be used as a cabinet simulator for guitar and bass (pre)amplifiers.
In this video you hear how the guitar tone changes drastically. Same thing happens to the bass tones.
It has been designed to perform extreme quality convolution in real time, while being light on the CPU and easy to use, providing advanced built-in filters and delay controls to let guitarists and bassists shape their tone with ease, without the need to be professional audio engineers.
NadIR is meant to be used as a cabinet simulator for live playing and jamming, tracking or mixing inside hosts capable of VST or AU Plug-Ins support.
Features
Here’s a link to the official Website.
How to learn to Mix Bass properly
Well, even though you could just go by ear and learn by simply listening to what’s happening, which definitely isn’t bad, there’s a way to fast-track your progress and learn how to properly mix a bass guitar in no time.
There are a couple courses out there which teach you this, but this one I found is excellent and super affordable, so make sure to give it a try.
Conclusion
Finding free bass amp VST’s is already hard, but finding good ones is REALLY hard.
The two I liked the most are GK Amplification 2 LE and Ignite Amps SHB-1 simply because of their overall sound quality.
Adding the NadIR free cabinet to the chain can also do wonders for your tone. Just try them all out, since they are free, and see which ones you like the most.
Have a wonderful day!
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While you’re recording your guitar during your home studio projects there’s something you want immediately right: your guitar tone. You want it aggressive, evil, distorted with great saturation and right EQ. What more? Nothing, the problem is that you have to render it as you’re actually thinking about it. That’s the hard part. Let’s start saying that this tutorial is for those guys who are starting their first studio project and who are trying to have more from their guitar sound. There’s no right or wrong way to do it, this is how I like to do it, keeping it the simpliest I can. Moreover I use free plugin, not bad for your wallet, isn’t it?
I’m not a guitar player, not at all, I play every now and then guitar just to remember some riffs and record them quickly, with my cheap SG guitar (I bought it some years ago for about 100€ on ebay), B drop tuned with some awesome strings: RotoSoundDarkZone. I recorded some chords and some palm muted parts for this tutorial and, I mean, remember I’m not a guitar player, so forgive me! I use Reaper but you can apply all the concepts to whatever DAW you like.
Let’s move forward: create a new track and insert these FREE plugins:
Insert them following exactly this order in your VST chain. It turned out mandatory for me to add a gate at the end, Reaper’s ReaGate to be precise, because of the annoying noise coming from my SG cheap pickup, that was amplified by the VST chain. I just loaded the “rhythm guitar” preset tweaking a bit the threshold, the noise disappeared. Another really important point to stress is to remember to enable monitoring, otherwise you’re not gonna hearing anything from your speakers! On Reaper mixer find the little button on the right of the track volume fader and click it. Please remember to enable it, or it would be hard to hear you playing ?
Disclosure: When you buy through our links, we may get a commission at zero cost to you.When I first started producing music, I stick to the native Vst’s of my DAW application just because I never knew I could extend my Vst library with tons of great Vst’s plugin.I started downloading, and I discovered most of the Vst plugins I downloaded where all garbage, some even crashes my DAW application while running.If you are here for the same or similar issue, then you’re lucky to be on the right page! On this page, you will find a list of over 70 high-quality free Vst plugins you can download and use for free in your various Daw Software. Top free vst compressors.
Tse Bod Vst Free
Let’s have a more detailed look to the VST chain. The TSE TS808 is a good quality tube driver emulator, don’t think about it as a poor quality plugin just because it’s free, I found really few ones like this, moreover a brand new release has been recently released, and trust me, it sounds even better. This is exactly what we need to give to our tone the right amount of grit before sending the signal to the amp, on palm muting it will be a blast. For this tutorial I set it this way:
TSE X50 is a free VST clone of the famous and “evil” Peavey 5150, massively used in extreme metal. Even this plugin recently got a new release: a must. If your target is an aggressive distortion, it won’t let you down. If you remember my post on guitar amp simulators comparison, I used an old X50 version and it was already really good for me, then I modified the post with the new version and I realized how much better it sounded. My SG gets a badass tone with this settings:
Poulin LeCab 2 it’s a quite versatile cabinet simulator, if you already own some IR wav files it’s exactly what you need. What’s an IR? The Impulse Response is a signal that can be extracted (with a slightly complex procedure maybe someday we’ll talk about it in details) recording the signal of a real cabinet with a microphone. To keep it simple we can say that it’s the “fingerprint” of the cabinet and the related microphone. Why it’s important? Because you really can’t take just the output signal of the amplifier without the cabinet, try to think about it as if you had a real amp, would you record the direct output of your amplifier head without the cabinet? It would be awful and somehow dangerous for your recording system. Don’t do it. Neither with VSTs ? In this case I used God’s Cab IRs, they’re free and come with a detailed user manual, that explain the different techniques used to record the IRs. Voice synth vst plugin. Load the WAVs files on LeCab, if you blend together more than one IR it would be like if you’re micing your cabinet from different point, experimenting different combination is quite interesting, this is how I like it with God’s Cab:
Here you are my final tone:
https://www.santoclemenzi.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/HeavyGuitarTone.mp3
As you can notice the sound need to be enhanced: it would be nice to add an highpass filter to cut everything under about 100Hz, then, lowpass everything above the frequency you hear “frying” on the upper part of the spectrum, usually these frequencies give to your tone a very digital character, it’s better to reduce it.
To summarize you can reach every sound you need just using free plugins you can find on the web, this is how I record my ideas and riffs, quickly and for free, I couldn’t ask for more ?
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