In the STUDIO with DAVE ELLEFSON (ex Megadeth, Dieth)!

Join ex-MEGADETH bassist Dave Ellefson and German producer Kristian Kohle (Aborted, Powerwolf, Electric Callboy, Emil Bulls) in the studio!
Watch how they dialed in the bass tones and recorded the bass for the debut album of Dave's new band DIETH.
Get the full course (including the multitracks) here:
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You can either purchase the course and become a member of my academy KOHLE AUDIO KULT and get all our courses and multitracks!
Check out Dave's band DIETH and the song we recorded:
➡️ • DIETH - Don't Get Mad ...
My voice-over mic:
➡️bit.ly/3rN942h
#metalbassist #metalbass #basstone

[@KohleAudioKult]

Hope you enjoyed this! ➡Get the full course here: bit.ly/48V4tLU🤘

[@renepetershagencomposer2462]

Link doesn’t work because of Horns Emoji .🤘

[@Silent.Barfight]

That DI tone is sick already.

[@elbow333]

easiest way to get a good recording is to get it good at the source, which is definitely the case here :D

[@ErixSamson]

Yes, deep, fat and clean

[@KohleAudioKult]

I can’t state enough how important the instrument itself is for a killer metal bass tone. And that Modulus really kicked ass! I still gotta find out „what makes a bass sound metal“. Guess that’s for another video…🤩

[@sjoerdvisser76]

A tone to DI(e) for.

[@yvanlefort8123]

​@@KohleAudioKult First : new strings ! Second : fxxking Hell Bass Third : Kohle !!! 😂

[@Producelikeapro]

Wow! What an absolutely amazing experience that must have been!

[@percusswords]

Dave is so. Fucking. Solid! Seriously, what a privilege to watch him track. Professional, precise, and locks in perfectly with the drums. Thanks for this footage, and great job producing dude

[@peevee605]

Ellefson plays very clean and supertight. I have great experiences from recording a bass with a graphite neck in terms of clarity and bite. The sound is menacing good. Calls for a cold beer.

[@KohleAudioKult]

I still need to find out what makes that Modulus sound that great!

[@peevee605]

@@KohleAudioKult it could be that a graphite neck has all fibers in the same pattern vs a wood neck. It sounds more even, no dead spots and no surprises? If you would track both basses side by side; as an engineer you might hear and define the difference in the studio while fans live often would not.

[@PainkillerX12]

I think it's not only an amazing "lesson by practice" for producers to see how to make an instrument fit in a mix, because it's litteraly a recording of the session it's also a useful tool for musicians to know what to tell the producer about their vision without wasting everyone's time, truely a course everyone should follow ! I'll buy it when i'll have more money but among online metal mixing courses, this one looks like the most useful not only for producers but also for performers !

[@thought1212]

one of my favorite bass dudes. awesome.

[@rolig9303]

Dave always have the best pick attack and tone to my ears.

[@ErixSamson]

Thanks for having recorded this, nice documentarry. Very interesting.

[@nickolasgough8529]

Very cool how the signal splitter works! And what an absolute Legend, Mr. Dave Ellefson! Bringing the Dangle! 😎🤘

[@SHARt_murmur]

Good stuff, really enjoyed getting to see you produce a bit there. Solid tone too!

[@KohleAudioKult]

Thanks. I think that’s the unique part of this course. It’s the real thing. The actual session. Kudos to Dave for doing this. Most musicians wouldn’t have done this with me.

[@jesse_cole]

David Ellefson: the only bass player legally allowed to use shark-tooth inlays.

[@kutnersuicide]

Very cool stuff! I wish all the bassists would understand so well the critical importance of their tone. It starts with the playing. Dave is amazingly consistent and in the pocket.

[@adamphillips6747]

That’s what makes a bassist different than a bass player. We understand tone.

[@krksajrk]

This was beyond awesome...what a privilege to watch,thank you!!!!!!!!!

[@NoFsGiven666]

Very nice love watching your channel. Very cool to have Dave Ellefson tracking away and sounds fantastic.

[@arronsondrini380]

Awesome!!! Can’t wait for this course, I hope anyway :)

[@arronsondrini380]

Oh shit I am in :)

[@andrel.noronha3282]

Amazing tone! Good job!!

[@niallstewart109]

nice to see the old Trace Elliot amp getting some love. awesome

[@rgdec74]

Oh i've been waiting for this, Kohle!! Thanks!!!

[@KohleAudioKult]

Took me a while. Sorry! Enjoy!

[@djdanger9812]

This is awesome and Daves new band sounds tufffff!

[@douggroulx1525]

That was fantastic! I really enjoyed that. Dave is the reason I wanted to be a bassist, he really knows his shit.

[@mattwhite399]

Kristian, your arrangement tips in this clip were spot on. I like your ear!

[@rafaelmadrid5406]

" I've got to interrupt here" Love it xD Amazing and solid content as usual Kohle, I'm learning a lot, thank you so much :)

[@distortionclubla]

Best video to date 🤘🤘

[@chrisharrison809]

Super cool. Super duper cool. Excellent job.

[@RobKingRC]

Daves a Legend!!! Excellent video brotha!!

[@groopuskul]

Awesome, sounds killer , solid bass tone and guitars tone and riffs really cool too

[@carlospacini1744]

Amazing Di tone ! ellefson is a legend, greetings from Argentina !!

[@christopherbertram905]

Dave is one of my influences and I've always loved the articulation of using a pick on bass. I just wish I could get a break in the business. Great video as always. Would love to record with you. Best wishes and much love.

[@acdover]

Great video

[@carlyle2000]

Great job man!

[@WardGuitarCabinets]

This is incredible

[@guilhermefontana6499]

Awesome! 🤘

[@christopheranderson2158]

Greetings from Jackson, MN!! 😉🤘🤘

[@dalejacksonmo]

Awesome...love Megadeath tones

[@FelipeGruberTV]

My man! This is awesome 🤘🏻

[@TheEnderBand]

I was just thinking about Dave's Modulus the other day and wishing I'd see him bust it out again- thing sounds nasty. But then again, everything Dave does sounds killer

[@pensnut08]

His playing is so spot on. I just love it!

[@size14steeltoes]

KILLER. I actually had one of those old Trace Elliot AH500's, but loaned it to a friend who got it stolen from a gig. This video makes me want to go find another one!!

[@Gee-no]

Our bass player back in one of my early 90s bands has his stolen , too! We found them and got that motherfucker back after some threats of violence and legal pressure. The NERVE of some ppl! They're in a band too and try to steal our shit. Pissed me off.

[@rogercardenas111]

Enjoy the video. Great recording session with Dave E.

[@klauth_Yksyn]

This was great! this inspired me to add some ORANGE cabs to my studio. 👍

[@KohleAudioKult]

Or try my IRs from the session: eminence-digital.com/products/kristian-kohle-eminence-orange-bass-ir-pack

[@matdube3577]

Wow! That was refreshing to watch Dave tracking and what a solid bass tone!

[@KohleAudioKult]

Will be back with another video soon!

[@nafis6668]

wow, the best DI tone from a bass!

[@adamphillips6747]

Been using the VT Bass since it’s inception. Powerful unit.

[@Jazzguitar00]

This is some super high quality Kristian!

[@drmoshie]

as soon as he plays I hear megadeth

[@negromister]

He's *so* good, Jesus. Just flawless.

[@platform1studio610]

funk yeah dude. thats the shizz. amazing.

[@SecretMetalFromAbyss]

I really liked that producing part of this. I'm not a pro or anything but I really love working with good musicians who respect my ideas to probably make their art more potent what comes to arrangement. Unfortunately some amazing guys I've worked with have gotten record deals and are working with "real pros" now so my little home studio is just collecting dust. :D

[@KohleAudioKult]

Those are the hardest parts to capture in a course. I mean the producing. That's why we filmed the real thing. Many musicians don't want this. Dave was really cool though!

[@SecretMetalFromAbyss]

@@KohleAudioKult That's understandable as musicians might be perfectionists (like me) so telling them there might be a way to make their "perfect" arrangement even better can hurt the master minds feelings. :D Luckily those guys I've worked with have either played in a same band with me (where I was the "master mind" as a song writer) or others have just recognized my views and knowledge what comes to production.

[@KohleAudioKult]

@SecretMetalFromAbyss That’s exactly the situation! 😇 The real, mature mastermind knows that it makes sense to listen to a good producer and to question yourself though.

[@1siriuswolf]

Great chemistry between all of you. That trace Elliot is 🔥

[@KohleAudioKult]

Those old Trace Elliot apps are great workhorses!

[@1siriuswolf]

And Dave is one of the best musicians in the game.. 🖕 the haters they just jelly

[@NostalgicCovers]

I can't help but find that SIT Strings logo rather fitting for Ellefson

[@elrikup1179]

Awesome 👍🏼

[@_Only_Zuul]

god damn.. that is one SWEET modulus bass 😎😎😎

[@KohleAudioKult]

indeed!

[@mikemoore3635]

I remember watching a video and I cant remember who did the video but they said dont palm mute your bass, cut to Dave palm muting! His verse riff in symphony of destruction is palm muted. Don't mess with a legend lol. Great video man!

[@Jazzguitar00]

It was probably Glenn Fricker; KZbinrs are getting a little carried away with their opinions...

[@EvilBlakey]

Yeah it was Glenn. The important thing to remember though is that you shouldn't palm mute on bass UNLESS you can actually do it properly like Dave

[@Brutuscomedy]

One of Brutus's fav bass tones is Dalton's on Grammatrain's Lonely House album. wish he knew the entire chain on that one

[@serge1643]

Cool!

[@pipespeeps5349]

new bass strings are just so vital for good clarity bass tones in my opnion

[@ErixSamson]

This Trace Elliot amp head is a beast

[@KohleAudioKult]

Indeed! It has always been my live amp. Portable yet loud. Great tone with and without pedals.

[@progressivelibertarian2570]

Fun! But all I’d need is the bass, DI and one of those pedals!

[@martinheath5947]

John Entwistle would have loved to have this tone even once. Excellent!

[@sk8125]

I’ve always enjoyed tech 21 bass tones

[@Durkhead]

It always drove me nuts cause the best bass tone to me would be after maybe a few days of playing. Like when you get a bad haircut and it grows out just a little and looks good for about a day

[@JohnWiku]

Love the tones!! It's funny to see a bugera amp, i got one and wouldn't sell, trade or dispose of it, ever!

[@KohleAudioKult]

Even if we didn’t end up using it, that Bugera Superbass clone is badass! I haven’t found a single flaw. Sad but true. You can find another video about it in the Bass playlist on this channel.

[@rexfuriusdeathmetal]

How did you get by the Trace Elliot AH350? I'm pretty shure it's my old amp I sold 15 years ago (in the Netherlands)

[@FranknBeer]

Years ago I used to do the same thing. Ran a 5 string bass in place of a 4 and tuned up a half step.

[@Uncle__Pete]

benutze auch das B7 ultra v2. einfach sehr viel möglich mit dem teil und prägt doch sehr stark meinen sound :D

[@lenix125]

does dave play with his "bass" on video?

[@leonshreds387]

awesome

[@Eugensson]

It's fair to say that SansAmp BDDI and B7K are the old an the new industry standards.

[@Metalung]

🤘

[@spaceexpireaudio666]

I like the way you suggest how the certain bass parts may be by singing them, luke a true producer of golden era😀

[@KohleAudioKult]

I do a lot of singing, sometimes way more terrible. Whatever helps the musician.

[@spaceexpireaudio666]

@@KohleAudioKult terrible in a good way, i`m sure

[@JUNKO____]

The concept of tuning up instead of just using the right strings/scale length for the tuning your band is in seems like a weird work around for a problem that is only in the player's head.

[@pipespeeps5349]

damn they tune the bass up now, the meshuggah method i call it

[@KohleAudioKult]

It’s still an octave lower than the guitars in this case! Big difference.

[@pipespeeps5349]

@@KohleAudioKult oh ok

[@DavidMadeira29]

And, obviously both guys don't smoke in Tony's pot. They'd take the custom one as a ruler, of course, they'd put seven strings on the very standard fretboard. I still got those RFC in passive mode. Rob, Robert, Alberta. Namastè.

[@JD-vj4go]

Nice the Dieth album was good.

[@georgyj111111]

Foppy B? Fanned fret long scale...... But this bass sounds gorgeous.........

[@FRANANGELICOONA]

Can you make a video about how hard to pick the bass strings? It seems like he barely hits the strings.

[@Asgaia]

Well. His set has a 128 B-string, but he tuned up to C to have it tighter. What about using a 135 B-String? I know there are trade offs. For instance if you would use a 140 or even thicker, than the tone becomes surprisingly duller, because it lost flexibility and therefore the ability to produce higher clear overtones. just for interest: If you use 200 or 210 for low F# than even the overtones are not harmonic anymore because the string becomes so thick that it cannot be treated a a one dimensional string but a three dimensional object. Overtons are reflected inside the string so that they run a longer way inside the string compared to the foundation tones. I can recommend Pyramide. They produce all kind of strings exactly to your specs. And they are not expensive. They also made my 8-string low B tuning string set accordig to my specs.

[@robloyst4514]

Damn! Kind of a noob, but I’m using like 105! Didn’t even realize they went that high!

[@Asgaia]

@@robloyst4514 105 tuned to B? On my other bass I use "Peter Steel memorial strings" (DR black, 110, 90 ..) and tuned to B. And surprisingly that works.

[@alexdeleon7135]

He appears to be so easy to work with as far as accepting ideas.

[@KohleAudioKult]

That's how professionals work together. Always being open and flexible for good ideas and suggestions. It's always the amateurs that won't listen because they know better ;)

[@alexdeleon7135]

@@KohleAudioKult Agreed!

[@somebrains5431]

These guys meet on chat roulette?

[@ErixSamson]

@5'37'' : hey guys there is a tuner in Cubase, it works very well, you just insert it on the input channel and you're good to go...

[@KohleAudioKult]

But then Dave has to come to my TFTs to see it. That's why a prefer a big hardware tuner.

[@Gee-no]

Dave's just a cool normal motherfucker seems like. Keep up the metal Dave. One thing, does he tune all the strings up half step or just the B string to go with drop C guitars?

[@KohleAudioKult]

All strings up. Just tuning up one string would make it more difficult to follow the guitar riffs.

[@Gee-no]

@@KohleAudioKult you are right. I was just curious. Seemed like a weird thing to me. So the guitars are tuned up too? Or am I just not getting this? Lol. Sorry for my ignorance. I play guitar in drop C. So the bass is C, F, B flat, E flat, A flat?

[@JohnWiku]

@@Gee-no bro... The bass is tuned to C standard, why complicate?

[@ericolson326]

@@Gee-no In the video he seems to be saying he tunes to C - E - A - D -G, but that makes no sense. So what I think he ~meant~ is that when he's accompanying a guitarist who is tuned to Drop C, instead of tuning his bass strings down to A - C - G - C - F like you normally would, he tunes them up to C - G - C - F - A and plays the riffs a string lower (higher? closer to his head than his feet, anyway 😄)

[@Painscale]

Kohle teaches Dave how to clank Dave gets a job with Overkill.. Coincidence 🤔 I think not.. Now you gotta get the father of clank on the channel D.D. And have him rate your process. Haha

[@KohleAudioKult]

Much love for D.D. 🤘❤️

[@alfonspekala]

It looks like cubase 5 LoL

[@KohleAudioKult]

Vintage Cubase sounds better! Just kidding. But this quite old. It's 10.5

[@briegleruyet4139]

Friedman t-shirt is for the joke?

[@garygary6032]

i will refrain from making any ellefson jokes i promise

[@bartoszupinski9171]

Nothing to see here, just playing da bass.

[@mymodel6]

Oh dear, sunglasses indoors bellend alert...

[@Killahead.]

So since the whole thing about Ellefson grooming a kid has been debunked..he essentially was just doing something you all do quite frequently in your rooms anyways. I really don't see why everyone has to act like goofy 13 year olds about something completely unimportant. It's time to grow up, kids.

[@JohnWiku]

Everyone does it indeed, I guess it's just funny when someone famous does it and gets caught. Regardless of what everyone thinks or does, I am just here loving this new band, megaDieth 😂😂

[@Killahead.]

@@JohnWiku the sad thing is he wasn't "caught" as much as his conversation and video chat with someone got put out in public intentionally. If anything the guy's a victim. I don't know how everyone keeps twisting this into him being a bad person. I've never been a Megadeth fan nor do I really even care about Ellefson, but it's honestly just common sense so I don't know why everyone is acting they way they are about it.

[@EvilBlakey]

It's not so much about what he did, it's more about him being a hypocritical dickwad. Claiming to be oh so holy christian I love jeebus blah blah blah

[@alexanderhemming9148]

That Dark glass is nowhere near as good as the VT. Please use your ears people!

[@KohleAudioKult]

And that's what we used

[@honigdachs.]

I like the idea of running the signal through a guitar amp as well and adding in a little bit of that sizzle for some extra cut. But the main takeaway here for me truly is: the instrument itself is set up really well and has a good solid and snappy sound to it. You put that in the hands of a player with good technique and then the rest of the recording gear is secondary, you can basically get away with almost anything you want.

[@KohleAudioKult]

Well spoken! 🤘

[@clausm2203]

Great video