I use Amplitube 4 most of the time, it took me a while to dial in some tones i liked. I tried out Amplitube 5 and it sounded great but i decided i liked what i had and didn’t want to spend more time playing around again right now 
and to get the good bass stuff with V5, you have to get the Max package which isn’t cheap.
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I love my Helix Native plug-in. Even more then my stomp unit 
Also you can just run a few effects in native and do everything else with discrete plugins. I have been using it for purely effects or preamps.
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I wish I could form-factor that into a pedal. I guess I could strap a NUC to a DAI with a MIDI foot switch.
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Isn’t this basicly the HX Stomp?
HX Stomp doesn’t run .vst plugins.
Oh you mean like that. Sorry Dave I understand what you meant now.
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Sales on Softube. Amp room looks cool even if it’s more focussed for guitars. For 89 euros it seems you get a SVT-CL amp and cab sim. All the other stuff should be useable for both bass and guitar.
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Amplitube is great don’t get me wrong. I loved my demo time with it. But I just like the simplicity of an amp sim with a cab loader for my own collection.
But I know you can just mute the cab section in Amplitube and then introduce your own IR loader next up in your mixer chain to take care of that issue but I still just like it all on one screen for the most part.
I really like Nembrini Audio for the Darkglass emulations. Just love them.
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At the moment for starting price. It’s not specifically for bass, but it seems like a bunch of useful live-focused effect units.
Not exactly a plugin per se but I just bought UVI’s USQ-1 soundbank for UVI Workstation.
It’s super super good, very similar to what a real ESQ-1 sounds like. Satisfying for my nostalgia missing mine.
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UVI deserve it, I love their unique take on effects.
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Anybody else use Harrison Mixbus as their DAW? I ended up with their full plug-in suite when it went on sale last year but haven’t really delved into it too much. I like Mixbus because, unlike Reaper or Pro Tools, it is designed to color the sound to emulate a Harrison console. The interface also replicates the look and feel of a console mixer. One of my biggest regrets is selling my Soundcraft 600b mixer with a couple of custom API channel strips. I like mixing analog, and this was the closest I could find. Anyway, the plug-ins on their default settings sound pretty great, but, damn there are a lot of parameters you can adjust. It’s a bit overwhelming.
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Oh cool! I hadn’t heard of it. Looks interesting.
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Yeah, it’s pretty cool. I used Mixbus to build the sound effects cues and music for a live radio play I produced for a local theater. I really like the analog interface.
Glenn Fricker on his SpectreSoundStudios YouTube channel does a review of Mixbus32C, the more elaborate version, and also does a shootout between Mixbus and Reaper. They’re fun to watch (and there is some damn fine bass playing on them). It’s less a “shootout” than it is a comparison between a clean DAW and one that intentionally colors the sound. The built-in compression, eq, and tape saturation on Mixbus is impressive, which makes me wonder why I splurged on the full plug-in suite 
. Oh well, it was on sale.
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Nooooooo noooooo not another rabbit hole!?!
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I know of it but I’m not using it. Seems so limited with only 12 buses and such limited routing. Only scenario I would use this is in stem mixdown to give it some flavour if I was really going for that “Harrison Sound”.
I would regret that as well, especially those API strips.
Yep, it was special. Even the Soundcraft EQs were pretty great. I hope that whoever has it now is giving it the love it deserves.
As for Mixbus, we clearly play in different sandboxes 
. My engineering/mixing experience is from running a small indie studio more than two decades ago. I did demos for local bands and a couple of Christian label records (I’m glad that Jesus loves them, because I didn’t). I don’t think I’ve ever used more than 16 tracks and 4 buses. A DAW is a vast expanse of, “WFT do I do with all that?”
I like the analog-style interface of Mixbus and the fact that it goes for a distinct color rather than trying to be neutral. I like knobs and faders, what can I say? 
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Makes sense in your case, I work on average with 60 - 100 tracks per song and that’s without all extra subs and groups.
Beware, the “comfort” template. After opening Ableton, it loads everything I will probably want to use. With a tablet controler, all the tracks are mapped so one click moves you to any particual track. I love this frictionless workflow concept.
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I don’t end up with that many but that’s only because my main drums have thir own faders in the plugin and act like a mini drum bus. If I were splitting the drums out I would be up around 30+ though, commonly.
The 8 you get with Live Lite isn’t gonna cut it for long 