Hey, to save time I posted the patch. Disclaimer, I am a complete novice and your mileage will vary with what you think of the patch itself.
Here is the basic premise:
- 2 paths each with the same amp and similar eq with the same speaker, mic'ing etc.
- the 2 path levels are way different. Path A (distorted path) is -11.5 db and path B (clean) is +7db.
- I use this with a supposedly FRFR Alto keyboard 1x12 400 watt amp with a bass with passive hum buckers (set to both pickups all knobs in center) with preamp in bass.
- I adjusted bass and presence fairly low to be able to balance levels across bass and with ability to turn it very load with my amp and still sound good. It was not tweaked at low volumes. I find you have to throw that tweaking away when you need to turn up.
Have not had the opp to try with a drummer live yet. And this is my first patch for bass that I have ever made. I am also relatively new to bass after not playing for decades. But hope you find the approach helpful to get you to turn Dist on and off without drastic changes in level and tone. I saw a youtube video of Bill Sheehan talking about his sound and he mentioned that he runs basically a dual setup, one clean and one distorted. I just tried to achieve the same approach with the two paths.
I think the patch has chorus on by default. I use this only with he clean path. I do realize that this means it takes two taps to change. I use the clean with chorus most of the time.
