Looking for a good free bass sample library for rock/metal production?
There’s a big variety of commercial bass libraries and VSTis on the market, their free segment isn’t as rich though. There are couple of nice free bass sample libraries I suggest you to try in your music: JH Freedom Bass and DC Chronos Bass.
These basses are quite different tone and feature wise, but they both still may serve you well. Both libraries require Kontakt version 5.5+.
Check the video to watch me testing them:
DC Chronos Bass
![[cml_media_alt id='695']DC Chronos Bass[/cml_media_alt]](https://nrqs.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/DC_Chronos_Bass.jpg)
This free bass sample lib by Death Culture Studio has simple features and high level of detail. There are different articulations switched by velocity range and string selection by key-switches (you have to select a string for each played note). It was sampled for each fret on each string and has 15 round robin layers. The extracted library costs ~5.2 GBs of disk space. DC Chronos Bass contains DI samples only and there’s no automatic alternate picking mode. You still can implement the latter using articulations though.
Download DC Chronos Bass and support the author here:
DOWNLOAD DC CHRONOS BASS
JH Freedom Bass
![[cml_media_alt id='698']JH Freedom Bass[/cml_media_alt]](https://nrqs.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/JH_Freedom_Bass.jpg)
This one by Jona De Haro has less samples, but more features. There are 5 channels you may turn on/off, adjust their volume separately and route each of them to its own Kontakt output. DI channel with the direct bass guitar sounds, Low channel with the low frequencies part only and three distorted channels: Aggressive, Growler and Screamer. Attack knob tweaks a built-in envelope shaper and allows you to emphasize the attack sound if needed. Alt picking knob defines a maximum latch to apply an automatic alternate picking. There are 5 open strings of the bass sampled and 5 round robins per articulation (5 downstroke and 5 upstroke).
Download JH Freedom Bass:
DOWNLOAD JH FREEDOM BASS
Author’s page
Unfortunately, the original link for this bass is down, so I had to re-upload it.
And here’s a multitrack of this short instrumental for your testing/practice purposes:
DOWNLOAD MULTITRACKS
Be nice and credit me if you post a mix somewhere. Here’s how:
Multitracks by Nikolas Quemtri from NRQ's Studio:
https://nrqs.net
Thanks! 🙂
Hi, the guitar record in this multtraks on post https://nrqs.net/en/posts/690 are 7 strings or what?
Hey, yes, it’s my Agile Interceptor 727:
https://youtu.be/CdJ7GkOWSr8
1st of all, you Nikolas sir are a BADASS!!! Sounds great man. I just happen to come across this post(your reply) randomly. What caught my eye was your guitar model. I’ve been a touring metal/prog drummer/audio engineer most of my life but since this covid crap has been a thing, I’ve recently taken up the guitar and have been taking it seriously and training relentlessly since last March. A few months ago I lucked out and was able to pick up a Agile Sector Elite 627 EB. It’s a 6 string 27inch scale length baritone and feels/looks amazing. I’ve had great luck so far in getting some decent tones/recordings out of it. But the more I learn and better I get i’m starting to think EMG’s just aren’t for me. It came with a emg
85/81. I’ll get to the point. where the f$#K can I find some solid knowledge on these agile guitars. I’ve been mostly recording a bunch of Djent songs and just wanna learn more about dialing in tone with programs like Bias Amp2/Bias FX2 Elite among several other sims. Do you have any tips for dealing with these guitars/active pickups in general when it comes to jent type sounds. Do you pre-treat your recored DI before hitting amp sims? Do you dime the volume knob/tone knobs when building your sounds. What’s the lowest stable tuning a 27inch bari can scientifically support? I had some ok luck with drop g sharpe. But feel like I get the most outta the guitar in drop A. If you have a moment and don’t mind nerding out on the page of heavy ass guitar production. I’d be most grateful. Here’s a link to my guitar specs: https://www.dropbox.com/s/t245k40wsoezhvz/Dylan%27s%20Agile%20Spec%20Sheet.png?dl=0
I just started playing guitar 8 months ago…..
Unmastered demo with the Aglie:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/mwaxlfobh3ch8zt/01%20USELESS%20D-Train_Version-Raw%20DrumBassGtrs_Post%20Production%20Vox.aif?dl=0
Unfinished writing demo (still tone chasing):
https://www.dropbox.com/s/wfsdibvx4ic6kgd/DYLAN%20NEW%20idea%20%28updated%2011.21.20.mp3?dl=0