I finally had some time today to program up a bunch of presents on my m5. Since there doesn't seem to be much of a reservoir of sounds clips of the m5 on bass, I recorded a pile of them for all to enjoy, or sneer at, as the situation warrants. (Sure, it's the same sounds as the m9/m13, but why not?)
In case you want to hear the clean reference tones, they're
here. I used two basses, a fretted 4 with a p pickup, and a fretless 5 J, with both pickups on full. Everything is recorded through an EBS multicomp into a PBDDI then into protools with no plugins.
Now for the fun stuff. Each of these contains 6 clips--the first three are always on the fretted, and the second three are always on the fretless. There's plenty more in there, but these are my 24 favorite sounds, at least for now. I didn't record any delays or reverbs--not because they aren't any good, but because I just don't use those effects on bass.
1.
Dirt. I didn't have high hopes for dirt sounds when I was considering an m5, but hey, some of these aren't so bad! The order is: Line 6 Distortion (useless on guitar but kind of cool on bass), Sub-Octave Fuzz, Muff, Line 6 Drive, Overdrive, and Fuzz Face. Those last three, I just realized, are very similar. Guess I can't avoid that tone, for some reason.
2.
Pitch shifting. Octaver, Pitchglide (+1 octave), Smart Harmony, Ring mod, Frequency Shift, and Ring mod again.
3.
Modulation. Analog chorus, Barberpole phaser, 80a Flanger, Opto trem, Goatkeeper, and Leslie.
4.
Synths and Filters. Now we're getting wacky. Octasynth, Synthomatic, Attack Synth, Synth strings, Seeker, and Synthomatic again (that last one goes really low--watch your speakers!).
That's the lot of them. Share and enjoy!
