ChocolateAudio announces Mock Bass, an advanced electric bass library. Sampled from a liuther's custom made electric bass made by Jacaranda, this download-only product is available in two packages :
- Mock Bass DI : features the DI sound only, recorded Apogee converters and Millennia TD-1 direct to digital at 96 Khz, released at 44.1 This set weighs about 335 MB and requires just 38 MB of preload in Kontakt 2.2.
- Mock Bass Production Pack : features the DI sound altogether with a Rock and a Round sounds (different sample packs).
Mock Bass Rock is reamped using an Ampeg rig with a Neumann mic to a Focusrite pre and into an Apogee converter at 96 Khz while Mock Bass Round is reamped using a Mark Bass rig with an AKG mic fed into a Focusrite pre and an Apogee converter at 96 KHz.
Each of the three Mock Bass sounds features :
- 790 unique samples
- Each string is sampled chromatically up to the 12th fret (G string up to the 18th)
- Two sustain samples for each note: index and middle finger playing (round robin)
- Four release samples for each note sampled (round robin)
- Four dead ghost samples for each note sampled (round robin)
- Sets of slide ups and downs for each string
- Sets of Hammer On and Pull Off legato samples for each note sampled
- Thumps on strings
- String noise samples
The Mock Bass DI lists for €39 and the Mock Bass Production Pack lists for €54 ; both are available now at :